The modest hero disliked this innocent tribute which a sincerely grateful and admiring multitude paid him.

Strange was doing the modest hero!

And, straightening up his bent back, the old man folded his arms in the attitude of a modest hero.

He was, like nearly all the men of his calling in that day, a self-effacing and modest hero, apparently quite unaware that he deserved attention.

I kept Hosty's Modest Hero idea foremost in my mind.

'Told you he was a modest hero,' Dominique said.

"It was nothing," said the modest hero.