modest violet
Example Sentences
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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 Types of Children's Literature by Barnes, Walter
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 Ferber, Edna
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
The r�le of the modest violet was not to be mine, I could see from the outset....
From Geraldine Farrar The Story of an American Singer by Farrar, Geraldine
You graceless wretch, you aren't usually so like ye modest violet!
From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by Elderdice, J. Raymond
