Thrive

Usage examples of prosper.

It is better for the workman that he should prosper, for the fund of capital accumulated is that upon which they depend to give them wages in a dull time.

The richest veins of anthracite in the world are within a thirty-mile sector from Gibbsville, and when those veins are being worked, Gibbsville prospers.

Widmore, after bidding him a bluff good-morning, told him bluntly that she was sorry his suit had not prospered.

Prosper, with his red hair, big, candid eyes, pock-marked skin, coming out of the Miramar by the little back door and hurrying across to the Brasserie des Artistes.

I am pursued by the knowledge that nought I do can prosper, for the cry of innocence is raised against me, and the earth groans with the secret burthen I have committed to her bosom.

The business prospered well enough to eventually allow them to open a millinery and even to employ a clerk.

Habana with a famous patronymic, a decent sword, personal honor, ambition, and damned little else save, perhaps, a letter of introduction to some midlevel official, for he and I both came west across the Ocean Sea in just such fashion, knowing that we would sink or swim, live or die, prosper or starve by dint of only our wits, our strong swordarms, and the Will of God.

He sent a honeyed letter to Ori by one of the villagers who sold fish in Drunk Town, saying how delighted he was to hear Ori was alive and not dead in the dreadful fire as he had heard, also that he was prospering and could they meet in the Yoshiwara that evening as Akimoto also wanted to discuss shishi matters of great importance.

I believe our ranch will best prosper if we speedily submerge our longhorns and Shorthorns and change over completely to Herefords.

SCHWARTZ SET OFF ON AN EXPEDITION TO THE GOLDEN RIVER, AND HOW HE PROSPERED THEREIN CHAPTER V HOW LITTLE GLUCK SET OFF ON AN EXPEDITION TO THE GOLDEN RIVER, AND HOW HE PROSPERED THEREIN, WITH OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER CHAPTER I HOW THE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM OF THE BLACK BROTHERS WAS INTERFERED WITH BY SOUTHWEST WIND, ESQUIRE In a secluded and mountainous part of Stiria there was in old time a valley of the most surprising and luxuriant fertility.

But Johnson grew stouter and prospered in spite of his wife--for a year or so.

The beads began to sink from sight into the silvery mixture before, reluctantly, the thermite caught fire and prospered.

For eighty years that blessed country had thriven and prospered, and that it should all end now, over an issue that was irrelevant to the general welfare of the majority of the people, was untenable to her.

Business was good in Massachusetts in the calm of 1772 and Adams prospered once again.

Although Alamanni tribes wander about Noricum, too, there are also small settlements of Roman colonists whose ancestors emigrated from Italia, mainly because there is much iron in the ground here, and the Noricans prosper by making the fine Noric steel that Rome buys for making weapons.