Unless you sat across the tea-table from him and now and then, while he quietly and unassumingly talked, met his eyes.
"Aurora the Magnificent"
Gertrude Hall
In her world she had been an intelligent observer and thinker, and she interpreted that world to him as naturally and unassumingly as a flower blooms and exhales its fragrance.
"His Sombre Rivals"
E. P. Roe
He discoursed with them courteously and unassumingly, and in his entertainment, though Nymphidius had sent him royal furniture and attendance of Nero's, he put all aside, and made use of nothing but his own, for which he was well spoken of, as one who had a great mind, and was superior to little vanities.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh