She was a bright young woman, alert and with at least a modicum of scientific mental attitude inherited from the machinery of her father's brain.
"The Desert Valley"
Jackson Gregory
If we are to have our concerns regulated by a majority of British representatives owing their position and powers to a display of armed force, no matter from what quarter that force is derived, it is plain to every man that even the modicum of civil rights left to us by the Union is taken from us, our franchise becomes a mockery and we ourselves become the most degraded nation in Europe.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry
To find it they would have to trust to persistence and a modicum of luck.
"The Boy Aviators in Africa"
Captain Wilbur Lawton