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petal Noun any of the brightly coloured leaflike parts which form the head of a flower [Greek petalon leaf] petalled adj
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Selfish, indeed, were he who would envy you one petal of that wonderful rose--Rosa Mundi--God has given you to gather. And on the top-most spray of the Rose-tree there blossomed a marvellous rose, petal following petal, as song followed song. He learned that suffering and freedom have their limits and that those limits are very near together; that the person in a bed of roses with one crumpled petal suffered as keenly as he now, sleeping on the bare damp earth with one side growing chilled while the other was warming; and that when he had put on tight dancing shoes he had suffered just as he did now when he walked with bare feet that were covered with sores- his footgear having long since fallen to pieces. |
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