Flourishing

Examples

• His loss is deeply felt in the flourishing colony. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• As it was, you would have fancied he was a flourishing, large parson of the Church of England. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• One of his most intimate friends was a merchant, who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The ribbon, flourishing in puffs and bows about the head, was of the sort called love-ribbon. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Feudalism in its most flourishing age was anything but systematic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Such people there are living and flourishing in the world--Faithless, Hopeless, Charityless: let us have at them, dear friends, with might and main. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I had confidence, however, in my own youth and energy, and was convinced that in a very few years the concern would be as flourishing as ever. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was the prime and vigour of the year; all things were glad and flourishing. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I admire them much more if they are tall, straight, and flourishing. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• But the action of the woman had been seen by the driver, across the field; and, flourishing his whip, he came up to her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But I would hold a pretty wager, sir, that a House like Tellson and Company was flourishing, a matter of fifty, not to speak of fifteen years ago? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Right up to the latest Mesozoic Rocks we find all these reptilian orders we have enumerated still flourishing unchallenged. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Colt died in 1862, but the Civil War had previously opened a great market for his pistols, and before the conflict ended the Colt factory at Hartford was in a highly flourishing state. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As they drew nearer to the front of the house the mummers became aware that music and dancing were briskly flourishing within. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Now, he said, flourishing his hand in the air, just out with it, madam! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• We are not in a flourishing state of circumstances here, sir. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He was a Tyrolese, broad, rather flat-cheeked, with a pale, pock-marked skin and flourishing moustaches. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I have little right; and you, perhaps, have still less to come flourishing and fluttering into my chamber--a mere jay in borrowed plumes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He had spent the early part of the next morning in writing home to his mother a most flourishing account of his reception by Miss Crawley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• When they reached South America, they found the giant sloth (the _Megatherium_), the glyptodon, and many other extinct creatures, still flourishing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Both flourishing thankye, said Wemmick, and particularly the Aged. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• A flourishing oratorical cough was now heard, followed by the interjection Whisht! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They think trade is flourishing as it was last year. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Here's Meg married and a mamma, Amy flourishing away at Paris, and Beth in love. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He'll begin with flourishing about the Rights of Man and end with murdering a wench. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• While delivering these valedictory observations, Wegg continually disappointed Mr Boffin of his hand by flourishing it in the air. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Editor: Paula