modest violet

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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

Several varieties of the lupine and the larkspur clothe the hillsides with every shade of color, while the modest violet seeks secluded spots in which to bloom.

From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello

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

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

Then I left the poor pale lady to still her beating heart and kill her deadly apprehensions in the embroidery of the lily of the field and the modest violet.

From The First Violin A Novel by Fothergill, Jessie

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