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1 Moment by moment, petal by petal , my heart comes into full blossom.
2 And as we're working with our own souls, we open our rose petal by petal .
3 Here was no slow unfolding, petal by petal .
4 She looked on calmly, too, while the little girls, treating them like daisies, pulled several to pieces, petal by petal .
5 When spring is fallen upon the days of summer, I carry away with mournful joy at night petal by petal the rhododendron's bloom.
6 Then the stranger will pluck the rose, and will watch it unfold, petal by petal , until all the beauty of it is laid bare.
7 Madame Bonaparte presses against the parapet of the bridge, and the crushed roses at her belt melt, petal by petal , into the pink water.
8 It was, she thought, like some manifestation of nature, like the opening of a flower, petal by petal , before the warmth of the sun.
9 You seem to learn more about a flower by inhaling its perfume after rain, don't you think, than by dissecting it, petal by petal ?
10 In her simplicity she unfolded herself to Philip, leaf by leaf, petal by petal , like the morning apios that surrenders its mysteries to the sun.
11 Petal by petal , she's been shedding herself.
12 "Our rosebud is unfolding, petal by petal , and beginning to bloom gloriously," said Patsy to sympathetic Uncle John.
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