Flourishes

Examples

• The opposition has gradually ceased, and the Franklinian system is now universally adopted where science flourishes. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There were no flourishes, but the individual letters would not bear close inspection. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But upon my soul I can't make flourishes, and I would rather be disappointed than try. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I found that the vertical style, with each letter separate and without any flourishes, was the most rapid, and that the smaller the letter the greater the rapidity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is the soil in which invention flourishes and the organized knowledge of science attains its greatest reality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And with that he made his heavy halberd to play around his head as a shepherd boy flourishes his light crook. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It is in communities like this that Jesuit humbuggery flourishes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• An aristocracy flourishes where the people find a vicarious enjoyment in admiring the successes of the ruling class. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• An Artaxerxes III, covered with blood, flourishes dimly for a time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The only signature to these lines was the initial letter F, surrounded by a circle of intricate flourishes. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Now, that is not ill sung, said Wamba, who had thrown in a few of his own flourishes to help out the chorus. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

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