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This delicate blossom, which one might mistake for a white violet among a low tuft of violet-like leaves, shows its rose kinship by its rule of five and its numerous stamens.

From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje

The garden Primroses soon follow, and, meanwhile, in all open winter weather there have been Czar Violets and Iris stylosa, with its delicate scent, faintly violet-like, but with a dash of tulip.

From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Jekyll, Gertrude

At this point he paused, and his broad red face tried to look violet-like.

From The Point of View by Weinbaum, Stanley Grauman

The shy, modest little creature, dwelling violet-like amidst clustering leaves, and even when showing itself still "half-hidden from the eye," was thereafter to be only a tantalizing image in memory.

From The Naturalist in La Plata by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

There's a pleasing quaintness to it, something prim and violet-like.

From Majorie Daw by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey