modest violet
Example Sentences
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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 Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
Then I left the poor pale lady to still her beating heart and kill her deadly apprehensions in the embroidery of the lily of the field and the modest violet.
From The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill
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 Richard Newton
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 Allan Pinkerton
Who shall say what it has cost them in self-sacrifice to limit themselves to the sober, modest violet for table and bonnet decoration during six whole weeks?
From A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things by Max O'Rell
