Gale, for example, prefaces the romance of Pyramus and Thisbe with their innocent meeting out-of-doors in an arbor, amid violets and damask roses.
She was so close to him that his cheek was fanned by her breath of clover and the fragrance of a little bunch of violets in her white kerchief rose to his nostrils.
And, as she stretched across him to do so, the violets at her breast fell upon his hand.
Steven, abashed that he had indeed thought himself heroic, blushed again and, looking down, began idly plucking with his unhurt right hand the wood-violets that grew in patches on the bank.
Opening it, the Countess disclosed a glove-box of wood, with a design of rather shakyviolets burnt into the cover.
Just where those daisies, pinks, and violets grow: The world may find the spring by following her.
This makes a pretty decoration for a luncheon, particularly if wild violets can be procured.
At the base of the fernery make a bed of violets as large around in circumference as the umbrella.
I plucked some wild blue violets one day, the ovata variety of the sagittata, that had a faint perfume of sweet clover, but I never could find another that had any odor.
The only sweet violets I can depend upon are white, Viola blanda and Viola Canadensis, and white largely predominates among our other odorous wild flowers.
Purple is the color of the stalwart and the brave; Purple are the banners that the conq'ring heroes wave; Purple are the violets above the lonely grave Of poor old Robinson!
Julia did not answer; she only touched the wilting and fragrant violets on her breast with her free hand.
She wore a few violets at the breast of her sober little gown when she met Mark on Sunday for the promised walk.
You violetsthat first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own; What are you when the rose is blown?
Out of twenty violets in a garden, you shall not find any two alike, but this does not displease you.
On breaking the envelope--she did so at once--Rhoda found a little bunch of violets crushed but fragrant.
She laughed, and laid the letter and its violets away with the other.
I have put these violets aside for you, Fräulein," he said, in his sulky way.
He put a handkerchief on the table, to serve for an afternoon tea-cloth, and a tiny vase of violets formed the centre-piece.
Thou lovest to spend a serene May morning, When dew-drops are twinkling on every bough, And violets wild each glade adorning?
If the Misses Frost received frequent offerings of rare violets from an unmentioned source they were not so puzzled that they could find no one to thank even though it surprised the innocent young man in the extreme.
Miss Louise naively informed him that they gave her some of the violets he sent to them, but that she knew he wouldn't mind.
Day after day I went across and gathered the little lavender primulas, the faint, garden primroses, the crocuses and violets and wall-flowers, and filled bowls and vases with them.
The violets on her breast perfumed the room, and the rings upon her hands flashed just as much as is permitted to an unmarried girl, and no more.
She unpinned the violets and thrust them towards his face.
The violets and the bishop's-caps and the wild anemones are sprinkled over the banks.
Walton's book is as fresh as a handful of wildviolets and sweet lavender.
Violets from my bed, and mignonette from Palmer's, scent my room at this minute.
And I'll ask Jasper to draw you the same kind of bunch of violets on your glove case, and we'll go right down-town, now.
There were not only daisies all over the path but real violets on either side of it.
The daisies looked one in the face, but the violetsdid not, because they had morbidly bad manners.
This bunch of violets was the impulse of a big, magnanimous nature; but it would be followed by the inevitable reaction, which would be the real test and trial.
White violets were the flowers of death, and the first flowers he had ever given her were purple violets, the flowers of life and love.
A bunch of white violets was handed in, with a pencilled note in Rudyard's handwriting.
Could anything harmonize better with my dress than these scarlet verbenas, divided from the purple violets by the circlet of white blossoms, and capped by one snowy cape-jessamine--like a queen in her ermine?
It was lined with silver paper, and the odor of dried violets stole into the still, cold air when she opened it.
But, after all, Molly had noticed the blush with which the girl had put a few violets in a little pot on the chimney-piece.
With a quick and very gentle touch she put the violets into Molly's belt, and smiled at her with the sunshine that was all about them.
The horse-chestnut leaves were breaking through their silver sheaths in points of delicate green, and daffodils and wild violets were thick in grass and ground ivy, while rabbits started away from within a few feet of the road.
For the fraction of a second Rose looked helplessly at Edmund, and then held out a little bunch of violets to Molly.
Only a knot of violets set in their own broad leaves, but blue as friendly eyes looking into hers, and sweet as kind words whispered in her ear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "violets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
