modest violet
Example Sentences
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He stood between the queenly rose and the modest violet.
From The Egoist by Meredith, George
"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
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.
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 Pinkerton, Allan
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
