Verb (used without object), : The children thrived in the country. From Dictionary.com.
A guerilla warfare, such as throve in Spain, must surely be crushed in her open plains; and the diffident King returned. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)] Reference
The rooms shone and glittered; the garden throve; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Shield of Silence] Reference
All kinds of domestic stock throve on it and liked it. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
She throve in her new home, and seemed perfectly happy. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Valda, on the other hand, apparently throve on freedom. From Wordnik.com. [A Mind to Murder]
How throve your journeying, when thou thoughtest suddenly. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference
So foolery was exchanged for foolery, and the thing throve well. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
He throve; he became a professor; his wife bore him five children. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
It throve there remarkably well, but has been unaccountably neglected. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Women quacks were very numerous at this period, and throve exceedingly. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
Thus, in spite of strange food and surroundings, the little one throve. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
It is by small savings that a farm thrives, and Miss Betty's farm throve. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
Physically Eleanor throve exceedingly during this phase of her existence. From Wordnik.com. [Turn About Eleanor] Reference
Thereafter I never lost one from such a cause and the cattle throve splendidly. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
The farmer had two neighbours, by no means noted for industry; still they throve. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
There is no market for cattle, even if they throve abundantly, which they do not. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman] Reference
Through the fields flowed a stream of clean water, consequently our ducks throve well. From Wordnik.com. [Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it] Reference
Thus I could always make a ragout for Pierre, Jean, and Jacques, and they throve on it. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
Practitioners of this class throve exceedingly during the reigns of several Roman emperors. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
'I throve and grew; my constitution was iron -- my sinews were steel, and my heart a lion's. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
His mother, wishing to make him hardy, sent him out in all weathers, and the boy throve upon it. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891] Reference
He bore the transplanting well, and throve in the new soil, while Mrs. Quirk was lonely and sad. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
Being a hard-billed bird, I supposed that would be suitable food, and certainly he throve upon it. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
Unhappily, the child neither throve in person, nor put forth feathers to cover the wings which he had. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
The colony throve, received accessions from the East, and, surviving all casualties, grew at last into. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
I delighted in Nature as a child delights in its mother, and I throve on my delight as a child thrives. From Wordnik.com. [Master of His Fate] Reference
Uitlander element -- from Uitlander investments, which all throve from the nation's own buried gold wealth?. From Wordnik.com. [Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked] Reference
Yes she positively did nurse him at her breast for three months, and never child throve better than he did. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 398, November 14, 1829] Reference
Their herds multiplied and throve upon the rich pasturage and in the mild air of the region where they grazed. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
The children throve from the start in the sunshine and climate; the peace and detachment acted like charms, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Shield of Silence] Reference
He explained that its roots asked other sustenance, and that it throve best of all on simple elemental goodness. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
We throve so satisfactorily that my mother seemed to have given up her cherished longing for a strawberry-garden. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
His cows 'milk was bewitched; the cream would not turn into butter, the hens laid few eggs, and the chickens never throve. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
Thank you so much, and I really do appreciate your interest in this treasure throve of the Mother's Best of my dad, Hank Williams. From Wordnik.com. [Hank Williams' Lost Music: Rare And Resurfaced] Reference
As mostly comes to pass with special fruit, this one being petted, throve -- well, you have no idea how an apple tended to can thrive. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
He bought a good, serviceable dog that preferred a bachelor life to any other and throve upon long evening strolls and erratic feeding. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference
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