"a humble cottage"
"a lowly parish priest"
"a modest man of the people"
"small beginnings"
"a humble apology"
"essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"
"baseborn wretches with dirty faces"
"of humble (or lowly) birth"
"This experience will humble him"
"He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"