Thriving

Examples

• And a steady lad he was, and a kind master he had to lend him a hand, and well he worked his own way forward to be rich and thriving. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The remainder may be no more than sufficient to supply the increasing demand of all thriving countries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Thirty or forty years ago, before losses and chancery suits came upon it, it was a thriving place; but now it is a desolate island indeed. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• If so, I must be allowed to re-introduce that young lady as a thriving pupil of Madame Beck's; for such she was. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In this form shoemaking has become a thriving industry in New England and in some other parts of the United States. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Thriving, grandmother, in every way. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But you are rich and thriving, Moore? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It is a thriving place, pleasantly situated--streams and streets, town and country, mill and moor--and seems to present an opening for such a man. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The strong, thriving state of your mint, in putrid air, seems to show that the air is mended by taking something from it, and not by adding to it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I am rejoiced to hear it's thriving, Mat. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Girl number twenty, isn't this a prosperous nation, and a'n't you in a thriving state? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The bright and thriving cities of Switzerland have been a refuge for free men from a score of tyrannies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They are reckoned, however, as thriving, and consequently as rich, as any of their neighbours. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Is she living and thriving? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He was a great deal too full of the market to think of any thing elsewhich is just as it should be, for a thriving man. Jane Austen. Emma.
• That being the name I wanted, I knocked, and an elderly woman of a pleasant and thriving appearance responded. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He was about as thriving as travelling basket and mat makers; but he had nothing to do with them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The other sugar colonies of France are in general all very thriving. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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