Florence was a girl of artistic tastes, was frail and excitable, and had brilliant violet eyes and an unsteady scarlet in her cheeks.
A great black flag with a blood-red cross in its centre leaned against the side of the altar, on which was seen the emblem of our faith swathed in violet crape.
There were no loiterers--not even to see the prelate leave the cathedral, which he did on foot, his violet silk train borne by one of the priests.
Instead of the rose-color and blue of Holy-Thursday, the ladies now wore black or violet silks and satins with jet ornaments.
The cardinals stood in their long line, the rich gold ornamentation of their chasubles shining brightly on the violet silk, on their heads the mitre or the red calotte of their rank.
Higher and higher leaped the flames, casting a glow as of burnished copper on the dark violet of the sky.
The duke was dressed in a grey lounge suit with a waistcoat of some dark material sprigged with tiny violet flowers.
The shrubberies loomed big in the violet twilight and afar out the sea lay placid, steel-blue and mysterious.
The dandelion answers the sun, the violet the sky.
You cannot pick a crocus and put it in water; nor can you be so cruel as to spoil the primrose and the violet by taking them from their natural setting; but the daffodil cries aloud to be picked.
Well, then, will you choose the violet or the crocus?
Clo's was shut and locked, in case Violet should break her rule and come too soon.
The promised reward was given, and more offered ifViolet would find time to buy toilet articles, and a few clothes.
Violet would not come up for the two breakfast trays for a long time yet.
The girl still posed as an invalid taking a rest-cure, and her tips to Violet were generous.
If any one rings, let Violetbe a long time opening the door," he said.
Then she unlocked her own door, and tearing off the blue wrapper, put on the tan-coloured linen suit Violet had bought in a sale, for five dollars.
XXXV THE TIME LIMIT OF HOPE A big, blond man had hustled Mrs. Mac and Violet downstairs before the shot was fired.
As Violet kicked on the door (her hands being occupied with the tray) Clo hastily stuffed a handkerchief into the hole she had made in the wall.
About this hour Violet was in the habit of toiling up with beer for Kit and Churn, and water or lemonade for their neighbour.
Presently Violet appeared, a coarse nightgown hanging over her arm, a plate of bread and ham on a napkinless tray, and glass of bluish milk.
Violet agreed to this bargain, which was well for the girl.
Violet would undertake any errand, but she could not be trusted for a mission of such importance.
Then she listened once more at the hole in the wall until she feared that Violet might come with breakfast.
If above the green field we had a blue sky, the blue-violet particles would let the blue-violet rays penetrate them, and record the image of the sky.
Before loading the camera, however, the scientist fitted a yellow colour screen over the lens, explaining that this was necessary to absorb some of the overactive blue-violet light rays, to which the emulsion is extremely sensitive.
The process known as the omnicolore, which was brought out in France, depends upon a screen consisting of a very fine network of violet lines in one direction, crossed by red and green lines at right angles.
So, putting on her bedraggled black picture hat with the red ripped off, Violet Hogan mounted the courthouse steps and went to the office of the Judge.
The next day in walks Mrs. Maurice Stromsky, penitent as a dog, and I heard her squaring herself with Violet for giving that old saw-buck of yours to the Delaneys, whose second little girl had diphtheria and who had no money for antitoxin.
Violet maintained the fiction that she was working in the night shift at the glass factory in Magnus, and by day she starched and ironed and pressed and washed for the overdressed children and as she said, "tried to keep them somebody.
She gazed up at him in an unblinking joy of adoration as shameless as the heart of a violet baring itself to the sun.
Violet promised she would get the teeth in time for Easter.
We believe," says Lewes, "that the sensation of violet is produced by the striking of the ethereal waves against the retina more than seven hundred billions of times in a second.
Then there are mauves and purples for which the precious stones have no parallel, and of which heliotrope, the harebell, and the violet give us the best idea.
She took out a long violet box with a perfumer's seal upon it.
Then he turned, crossed the room, soundlessly opened the door, and went out into the violet dark of the street.
Somewhere he had read, not long before, a newspaper account of the investigations of certain Italian scientists, concerning the effect of the violet and ultra-violet light rays upon the cells of the brain.
He fell to wondering whether Hartmann had been in earnest, when he told him of the qualities of the violet rays.
From some point above him, in what he judged must be the ceiling of the room, extended a beam of violet white light, cutting sharply through the darkness like the rays of a searchlight.
Hartmann went to the wall, and switching off the violet rays, turned on the electric lamp, then nodded to Mayer.
If the violet rays have no other effect, they will at least prevent you from sleeping, and my experience shows that loss of sleep, if persisted in, will shatter the best set of nerves on earth.
The house she had taken for six months certain for Lady Arden, though designated by the rural title of Violet Bank, was a splendid mansion.
Its course among the rocks was a flash of foaming rapids, broken here and there by pools of exquisite blue-green, deepening into inky-violet under the shadow of the cliffs.
The wild violet eyes fluttered up to his fearfully and fell as he towered over her.
Her wild violet eyes looked straight before her, seeking always the face of Tabs.
Virtew iz her own cashier; the violet iz blu; the racoon haz a bushy tail; man waz made tew mourn; meet me at the pea-nut stand.
Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave!
A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye; Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Do let something violetor lilac peep out from the snow, for the sake of 'auld lang syne.
Mother used to say you had a poet lover, who called you the twilight cloud, violet dissolving into lilac.
But so quiet; and always with some sort of violet or lilac cloud for a dress.
Think of her, with her dove-colored silks and violet gloves, crowded and jostled by Dinah and Sambo!
I used to say Mamita would have called you Lady Viola; but violet colors and lilac colors are cousins, and they both suit your complexion and your name, Mamita Lila.
Suddenly a frightful flash of lightning lit up Andrea's face with a vivid glare of violet and sulphur light while the thunder made every article of furniture dance in the room.
The hands were rigid and the eyes closed under the violet lids.
The beautiful little violet and orange species (Ceyx rufidorsa) is found in similar situations, and darts rapidly along like a flame of fire.
Without a word the boy nodded, but he followed the girl for a few yards until they were standing ankle deep in the shimmering green foliage of Frieda's violet beds which were not far from the Lodge.
They are all made to unscrew," said the Crabs; and forthwith they deposited a great pile of claws close to the boat, with which Violet uncombed all the pale pink worsted, and then made the loveliest mittens with it you can imagine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "violet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
