modest violet
Example Sentences
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He stood between the queenly rose and the modest violet.
From The Egoist by Meredith, George
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
The Violet 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 The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
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 Camões, Luís de
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.
