modest violet
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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 Edna Ferber
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 Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
One minute, I hope she will be a modest violet; the next, I am in terror lest she be too insipid.
From Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book by Anna Chapin Ray
Down in a humble dell A modest violet chanced to dwell Remote from gayer flowers; Its days were passed in simple ease, It sipped the dew and kissed the breeze, Nor thought of happier hours.
From Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. by Richard Green Parker
Pale as the love-sick hopeless maid they dye The modest violet; from the curious eye The modest violet turns her gentle head, And, by the thorn, weeps o'er her lowly bed.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
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