ellauri323.html on line 137: He knew well, however, that women care little for a man’s appearance, and that what they seek in a man is strength of character, and rank, and wealth. Are you fond of horses? In my stables of pine-wood and plated-silver seventy are installed. Not all of them together could vie in power with one of the meanest of my motor-cars.”
xxx/ellauri170.html on line 132: A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes; it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect, as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow....
xxx/ellauri170.html on line 134: The above is an excerpt from The Picture of Dorian Gray. I am not understanding the meaning of the phrase "the meanest flower might blow".
xxx/ellauri170.html on line 135: What does "meanest flower might blow" mean? Debanjan Chakraborty. 185●11 gold badge●11 silver badge●33 bronze badges. edited Aug 6 '16 at 1:40
xxx/ellauri170.html on line 154: To me the meanest flower that blows can give
xxx/ellauri170.html on line 188: What does “meanest flower might blow” mean:
xxx/ellauri170.html on line 190: The first part of the riddle was already solved above regarding the meaning of the word "meanest" (the superlative degree of the adjective "mean"): lowliest (garden-variety; nothing out of ordinary). As regards the word "blow", it's been even easier than that: in this particular case it has a sense of "to bloom" ("to be in blossom").
xxx/ellauri387.html on line 467: To me the meanest flower that blows can give Mulle pieninkin myyränporras aikaansaa
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