modest violet

Example Sentences

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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

You graceless wretch, you aren't usually so like ye modest violet!

From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by Elderdice, J. Raymond

It flourished on the hill-side, and injured nothing; for its shadow was harmless, and served but as a kindly shelter for the modest violet and the pale primrose.

From The Buccaneer A Tale by Hall, S. C., Mrs.

Let us be like the modest violet, who hides her beauty, rather than be boastful and foolish, as the stag was.

From Story Lessons of Character Building (Morals) and Manners by Bates, Loïs

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