Thrives
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Examples
- Thus rumour thrives in the capital, and will not go down into Lincolnshire. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Liberty, it seems, thrives best in the woods. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The tree thrives well, beyond a doubt, madam, replied Dr. Grant. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- A remarkable fact in this connection is that all animal life lives and thrives by eating some other thing that is or has been alive, or is the product of organic growth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But the propagandists do it nevertheless, and their propaganda thrives upon it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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