Mrs Cuthbert, an unfeeling woman, whose contempt was measured by the humbleness of the birth, circumstances, and education of every one around her, treated her harshly-not hesitating, in her moods of spleen and passion, to taunt her with her father's abject poverty, and her own origin.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
There are people who often talk of the humbleness of their origin, when they are really ashamed of it, though vain of the talent which enabled them to emerge from it.
"The Jericho Road"
W. Bion Adkins
Russia is the country where men are solitary, each one with a world within himself, each one profound in his humbleness and without fear of humiliating himself, and because of that truly pious.
"Poems"
Rainer Maria Rilke