wood-violet

Seated a little apart, attired in simple white with a sash of blue, and wearing no ornament save her favorite flowers, the wood-violet and the lily of the valley, was Edith, gazing with unusual interest on that lively, gorgeous scene.

Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Emily Mayer Higgins

Highly cultured, modest as a wild wood-violet, inclined, moreover, to reserve, she was nevertheless capable of engrossing the attention of the most cultivated minds in the capital, and a conversation with her was ever a thing to be remembered.

A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66, 1905

There is more God in the peaceful beauty of this little wood-violet than in all the angry disputation of the sects.

Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks 1900

She is as shy and as sweet as a little wood-violet.

With Hoops of Steel Florence Finch Kelly 1898

She made you think at once of nothing so much as heart's-ease, -- a garden heart's-ease, that flower of many names; not of the frail, scentless, wild wood-violet, -- she had been cultured to something larger.

A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. 1865

-- heir to my hydrogen -- a weed, or a cabbage, or something; my carbonic acid (ambition) would be dreaming dreams in some lowly wood-violet that was longing for a showy career; thus my details would be doing as much feeling as ever, but I should not be aware of it, it would all be going on for the benefit of those others, and I not in it at all.

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899