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modest violet
noun as in shrinking violet
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The modest violet may exhale its fragrance through an overgrowth of noxious weeds—and humanity bears out the simile.
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I once knew a charming young lady, called by her friends "the modest Violet."
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So you turned little Cry-baby into a lion of bravery and Sir Boastful into a 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.
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You needn't hang your head, Mollums, like a modest violet; it's a solid fact.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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