modest violet
Example Sentences
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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 Ray, Anna Chapin
Thus the modest violet, concealed beneath the thorny bushes, sheds its fragrance, while itself remains unseen.
From Paul and Virginia from the French of J.B.H. de Saint Pierre by Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de
A modest violet be our queen, Still fragrant, though alone, Our king a laurel—evergreen— To which no blight is known.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
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 modest violet may exhale its fragrance through an overgrowth of noxious weeds—and humanity bears out the simile.
From Bucholz and the Detectives by Pinkerton, Allan
