modest violet
Example Sentences
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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 Loïs Bates
The modest violet thus, concealed in thorny places sheds all unseen its delightful fragrance around.
From Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
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 Max O'Rell
You needn't hang your head, Mollums, like a modest violet; it's a solid fact.
From A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Balliol Salmon
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
