But he had a soul that in its simple and unpretending fashion was truly heroic, and to touch his garment is to receive virtue.
A person who is otherwise completely unpretending and unimpressive may do some reading and become, for example, a wine snob; he will swirl and sniff and smell the cork and send .
Henry David Thoreau in Clarke Times Courier But today the intermediate stage that Henry David Thoreau, living in Massachusetts in the 1860s, called "the unpretending sprout land" has become an endangered habitat.