modest violet

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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 Bates, Loïs

You graceless wretch, you aren't usually so like ye modest violet!

From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by Elderdice, J. Raymond

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 Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

You needn't hang your head, Mollums, like a modest violet; it's a solid fact.

From A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Salmon, Balliol

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