The sorcerer took a modest pleasure in such subservience.

These are modest pleasures, but real enough.

Muhbaras's modest pleasure lasted only until his guards led him into a small, almost intimate chamber.

Mr. Chesney's country is suburbia, a place of prized stability and modest pleasures.

He had played skilty from the time he was a child, and now considered himself above its modest pleasures.

She said it with a kind of nice modest pleasure in the fact.

This modest secret pleasure presented itself to us a moment ago as a desirable future thing, therefore we "make remembrance of things past."

The modest pleasures of Houston demand honesty, though not condescension.

The play's modest pleasure resides in recognition.

For those who are staying closer to home, maybe in front of a fireplace, or a wood stove, more modest pleasures will have to suffice.