humbly

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The end of fish, in one chartNasdaq 'humbly embarrassed' by what happened on Facebook's big dayShould you buy Facebook?

From Washington Post • May 21, 2012

So he ‘humbly submits himself to the judgment of his betters’. 

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew

He subscribed himself 'humbly yours,' and I objected to the adverb.

From Faraday as a Discoverer by Tyndall, John

They professed no higher aim than 'humbly to excite a smile,' and their efforts to please were not unattended with applause.

From An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King. by Collins, David

But there is a good deal of my duty to myself crowded into that one word, 'humbly.'

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander