flower of life
Example Sentences
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Look at the flower of life as one such metaphor.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2014
Elegies and Latin verses recalled the charms and talents of Beatrice and lamented the hard fate which had snatched her away in the flower of life.
From Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 by Julia Mary Cartwright Ady
And from the flower of life the bliss deny To bloom together, fade away, and die.
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life.
From The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
They flatter themselves, these dogs of Guise," he said; "they fill themselves with costly wine, that the flower of life pass them not by.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
