modest violet
Example Sentences
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Directly after the sweet tones ceased, and the tune was commenced again in chorus by the singing class, the modest violet now becoming identified with the strident voice of Miss Feelier Potts who absolutely yelled.
From The New Mistress A Tale by Fenn, George Manville
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
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
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 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
