modest violet
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The modest violet, the jack-in-the-pulpit, even the four-leaf clovers will tell you stories about the forest and the field, so that wherever you walk you will be surrounded by your friends.
From The Elson Readers, Book 5 by Elson, William H.
You graceless wretch, you aren't usually so like ye modest violet!
From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by Elderdice, J. Raymond
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
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
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 Parker, Richard Green
