modest violet
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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 Ray, Anna Chapin
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
"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
Who shall say what it has cost them in self-sacrifice to limit themselves to the sober, modest violet for table and bonnet decoration during six whole weeks?
From A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things by O'Rell, Max
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 Camões, Luís de
