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
Think what a sapless stick this fair flower of life must be to them, devoid of mind and soul.
From Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
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
