violets

• “Spring came early this year, false with warmth, coaxing March violets from the ground.”

  Waiting for Spring « A Fly in Amber

• “Let us add that, even in the midst of massacres and sickening slaughter, there are one or two cheerful signs, which peep up like winter violets from the dead leaves.”

  Echoes of the Week

• “A delicious smell of violets is blowing from the land.”

  Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country

• “I actually am wearing Midnight Violet today; I keep getting a whiff of past-prime violets, which is delightful considering the temperature outside is in the 20's!”

  You Really Can’t Have Too Many: An Ava Luxe Sampler

• “Maudie Steadman did not think much of the idea of violets and cherry-blossoms.”

  The Second Chance

• “Something he said made her aware that he had heard of her loss, and that the violets were a token of sympathy.”

  Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works

• “Then it was again exposed in the church to the veneration of the faithful, who crowded once more to pay it honour, and were wonder-struck at the perfume, as of sweet violets, which issued from it, and attached to every thing which it touched.”

  The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others

• “Cuba, an odour like that of violets, which is discernible two or three miles from land, when the wind is off the shore, has been traced by”

  Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)

• “I have also noted tones such as violets, bacon, raspberry and leather.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Playing with the Rhône

• “(For those not in the know, 'violets' are those humans with violet-coloured irises who able to interview/channel dead people.) orannia”

  Jane's Warlord - Angela Knight

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