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
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Religion, that flower of life, has its root neither in the vague dreams of the rustic, nor in the naked formulas of the philosopher, but in noble, unpretending acts.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob
The flower of womanhood—it was the flower of life.
From Superseded by Sinclair, May
Break it down and you bruise and jeopardise the flower of life.
From The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.