modest violet

Example Sentences

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In a large garden there grew a fine oak tree, with its wide-spreading branches, and at its foot there grew a sweet and modest violet.

From The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young by Newton, Richard

The merry-making and feasting continued, the fêtes still being given in Madame's honor, and "the modest violet" might have remained hidden beneath its leaves had not Madame Henriette's schemes involved Louise.

From In Château Land by Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth

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 Elson, William H.

It was not the blue of the hyacinth gleaming in the forest glade, nor the modest violet that empurples the path.

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne

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 Graded Poetry: Third Year by Various