Sentence examples for like a violet from inspiring English sources

She pointed to one that looked like a violet cross superimposed on a purple night sky.

His contributions to the group's communal journal are mainly parodies of other poets, including one co-written with Verlaine titled "Sonnet to an Asshole": "Dark and wrinkled like a violet carnation / It breathes, humbly lurking in moss".

In 1892 there was some unpleasantness in the Stokes household: a maid, Mabel Youngson, fled to England after stealing $2,000 worth of rugs, china, medallions and other items, like a violet silk petticoat.

This is White's version of part of the octave by Verlaine: Dark and puckered like a violet carnation It breathes, humbly lurking amidst the moss, Still moist from an amorous inclination which follows the gentle dip Of the white buttocks down to the edge of its scarlet hem.

Decoded by the police, it runs, in part, "I WANT TO OPEN LIKE A FLOWER VIOLET.

Her brothers are "twisting and tightening / my own silk scarf, // the gold running through it / like waves in a violet sea".

(In a strange physical disproportion, she had nearly no neck. "She looks more like a truffle than a violet," Marcel Proust had said of her when he saw her one night at the Ritz).

I have even discovered a new joy stirring in my soul like the sweet eye of a violet; it emerged from the stillness that follows grief.

This guy makes Al Haig look like a shrinking violet.

And her self-obsession makes the original Narcissus look like a shrinking violet.

Her very name sounds like a shrinking violet, but Welty was able, ubiquitous and always recognized, as this life shows.