modest violet
Example Sentences
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Let us be like the modest violet, who hides her beauty, rather than be boastful and foolish, as the stag was.
From Story Lessons of Character Building (Morals) and Manners by Loïs Bates
Pale as the love-sick hopeless maid they dye The modest violet; from the curious eye The modest violet turns her gentle head, And, by the thorn, weeps o'er her lowly bed.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
Sa-a-ay, girl, I'm a modest violet, I am, but I don't mind mentionin' that the general opinion up at the club is that I'm a little wizard with the cue.
From Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber
Salemina assumed a modest violet attitude, declined the honour absolutely, and intimated that there were persons who would prefer talking in a language they didn't know rather than to remain sensibly silent.
From Penelope's Postscripts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
You graceless wretch, you aren't usually so like ye modest violet!
From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by J. Raymond Elderdice
