modest violet
Example Sentences
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You needn't hang your head, Mollums, like a modest violet; it's a solid fact.
From A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Balliol Salmon
The modest violet, the jack-in-the-pulpit, even the four-leaf clovers will tell you stories about the forest and the field, so that wherever you walk you will be surrounded by your friends.
From The Elson Readers, Book 5 by William H. Elson
Down in a green and shady bed A modest violet grew; Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view.
From Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study by Anonymous
One minute, I hope she will be a modest violet; the next, I am in terror lest she be too insipid.
From Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book by Anna Chapin Ray
"If I had been a modest violet by a mossy stone," laughed Kate, "should I have taken up this work?"
From The Precipice by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
