modest violet
Example Sentences
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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
"If I had been a modest violet by a mossy stone," laughed Kate, "should I have taken up this work?"
From The Precipice by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson
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.
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
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 Graded Poetry: Third Year by Various
