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
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
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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Or how can mind wax strong Coequally with body and attain The craved flower of life, unless it be The body's colleague in its origins?
From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery
The first were so called because they fought with spears: they consisted of young men in the flower of life, and formed the first line in battle.
From Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) by Dillaway, Charles K.
