Four were humble, frightened-looking creatures who seemed to regard Carrel with more than a little awe.

A virus, he wrote, is "a humble little creature with only the intention to avoid extinction and survive."

It is within the grasp of the humblest creature.

Tucked away in an otherwise grim report on endangered species last week was news that two humble creatures long thought to have vanished have resurfaced.

Basically, Joe decided, it's a humble creature.

Most of them were simply made, humble creatures of common use, as perfectly suited to their lives as a thick pressed-glass window.

But for humble creatures like men, there are lesser gods, possibly.

She is one of the timid, innocent, humble creatures who can't push their way, and so get put aside and forgotten.

But they never asked me anything; I was too humble a creature for their notice.

With man's heavy hand lifted off the Earth the little, humble creatures are coming back into an olden heritage.