Verb (used without object), : The children thrived in the country. From Dictionary.com.
I hate to nitpick about this, but please, please, can people begin to say "thriven" and "throve"?. From Wordnik.com. [That List Of "Democrats And Indys" Backing McCain? It's A Bit Of A Sham.] Reference
European civilization, transplanted to America, has thriven. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
How easily he might have thriven among such kindly neighbors!. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California] Reference
During August the little garden had thriven and was at last in full bloom. From Wordnik.com. [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference
He had thriven well as long as thrift and thriving on this earth had been allowed to him. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of all countries] Reference
John Munroe Bell had been a lawyer in Albany, State of New York, and as such had thriven well. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of all countries] Reference
The doctrine had at any rate thriven with the teacher, for Mr. Die had amassed a large fortune. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Richmond] Reference
The children had thriven in the past half-year; even Cuffy having at last begun to fill out and grow. From Wordnik.com. [The End of a Childhood] Reference
They have thriven well and increased with great rapidity, so that now (1869) the whole town is full of them. From Wordnik.com. [Cepaea nemoralis] Reference
Our occupation on this occasion has lasted a little over two years, and Cuba has thriven and prospered under it. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
He over-sees the commonwealth, as his shop, and it is an argument of his policy, that he has thriven by his craft. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
A new settlement grew up there, and since emancipation has changed the conditions of life it has grown and thriven. From Wordnik.com. [A Military Genius Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland] Reference
By that time his parents had thriven pretty well in the world through their own industry, and so, on his setting up. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
The chestnuts, however, though they produce some fine fruit, have not thriven in the same proportion with the elms. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 544, April 28, 1832] Reference
England as an ornamental tree, and has thriven well, has not yet been planted in great numbers for the sake of its timber. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829] Reference
The arrangement — for it was little more — had worked satisfactorily enough; Grace had thriven, and Melbury had not repented. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
Such things as could be said for him were said, — how he had taken to industrious habits, and had thriven lawfully and reputably. From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations] Reference
It was like sunrise upon his grey and stubbly countenance, where three days 'growth of beard had thriven in the soil of the guard-room. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919.] Reference
I've lived and thriven under Bayford scorn many a day. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Step-Mother] Reference
But, for that maitter, it hedna thriven for mony a lang afore. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock o' Glenwarlock] Reference
I have travelled much, I have been in commerce and have thriven. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference
You have thriven wonderfully well under Her Majesty's Government. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902] Reference
The Government had created a machinery of ruin, and had thriven on it. From Wordnik.com. [Lombard Street : a description of the money market] Reference
And thenceforward the hermit's garden throve as it had never thriven before. From Wordnik.com. [Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories] Reference
I hope all fear is over about him now; he has thriven wonderfully of late. '. From Wordnik.com. [Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife] Reference
I don't say I should have thriven as a backwoodsman; but I admire the type in. From Wordnik.com. [The Whirlpool] Reference
Wherever they have touched they have taken root and thriven as best they could. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Sunshine] Reference
There was a very marked improvement in their appearance, they had thriven splendidly. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
I have been very fortunate this year -- you would be astonished to know how I have thriven. From Wordnik.com. [A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 6.] Reference
My children have thriven, and on the whole 'come to more,' as the Yankees say, than the care of them. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe] Reference
The predatory instinct, so highly valued in the Anglo-Saxon male, had thriven mightily in a country of people. From Wordnik.com. [Together] Reference
His heart was not in his work; it would have been strange if be had thriven by an industry which was only a weariness to him. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
The apple, peach, apricot, cherry, and pear-trees, which have thriven well, have already supplied the colony with valuable shoots. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
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