And others are proud of their modicum of righteousness, and for the sake of it do violence to all things: so that the world is drowned in their unrighteousness.

Had the modicum been less, I should have known my duty.

Her modicum of strength had been exhausted, and she was unable even to move from her position.

Hunger was pushed out of the tall houses, in the wretched clothing that hung upon poles and lines; Hunger was patched into them with straw and rag and wood and paper; Hunger was repeated in every fragment of the small modicum of firewood that the man sawed off; Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and started up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse, of anything to eat.

But to stand working slowly in a field, and feel the creep of rain-water, first in legs and shoulders, then on hips and head, then at back, front, and sides, and yet to work on till the leaden light diminishes and marks that the sun is down, demands a distinct modicum of stoicism, even of valour.

Large sums of money, due at a certain time, were wanted by Percival (I say nothing of the modicum equally necessary to myself), and the one source to look to for supplying them was the fortune of his wife, of which not one farthing was at his disposal until her death.

I kept another small loaf, and a modicum of cheese, on a particular shelf of a particular cupboard, to make my supper on when I came back at night.

Cold, light, and selfish in the last resort, he had that modicum of prudence, miscalled morality, which keeps a man from inconvenient drunkenness or punishable theft.

He had been obliged to fight the farm and his father for even a modicum of them--the things that made life worth living.

Only a scanty modicum of daylight entered to war with the trembling rays of the ikon lamp.

Principality Premiership NEWPORT v RGC TOMORROW, 2.30PM By ROB GRIFFITHS RGC sealed a modicum of revenge in their second meeting of the season, knocking Sunday's opponents out of the National Cup in the first round with a 35-17 win, the match being played at the Arms Park in Cardiff, again due to County's Cup fixtures.