flower of life
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Look at the flower of life as one such metaphor.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2014
After a time came rebellion and reckless grasping after life or what bore the semblance and wore the red flower of life, careless whether�nay, even glad if its heart were poisoned.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nazareth is as much to say as, ‘Flower of the garden’; and by good skill may it be clept flower, for there was nourished the flower of life that was Christ Jesu.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
Smooth is the way to ease and calm delight, And soft the road Sloth chooseth for her own; But he who craves the flower of life full-blown, Must struggle up in all his armor dight!
From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean
Sometimes he had thought, at three o'clock in the morning, that it was Esther who had drained him: she, sweet, helpless, delicate flower of life.
From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice
