All 8 Uses of
flourish
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and re-planted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil.
Chpt Intr. *flourish = thrive (grow or develop well)
- The evolutions of the parade; the tumult of the battle; the flourish of old heroic music, heard thirty years before—such scenes and sounds, perhaps, were all alive before his intellectual sense.†
Chpt Intr.
- She had flourished during the period between the early days of Massachusetts and the close of the seventeenth century.
Chpt Intr.flourished = lived
- On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. It ... was of a splendour in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony.†
Chpt 2
- Her mother, in contriving the child's garb, had allowed the gorgeous tendencies of her imagination their full play, arraying her in a crimson velvet tunic of a peculiar cut, abundantly embroidered in fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.†
Chpt 7
- This creed was never taught, for instance, by the venerable pastor, John Wilson, whose beard, white as a snow-drift, was seen over Governor Bellingham's shoulders, while its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalised in the New England climate, and that purple grapes might possibly be compelled to flourish against the sunny garden-wall.
Chpt 8flourish = thrive (grow well)
- The only surgeon was one who combined the occasional exercise of that noble art with the daily and habitual flourish of a razor.†
Chpt 9
- Would he not suddenly sink into the earth, leaving a barren and blasted spot, where, in due course of time, would be seen deadly nightshade, dogwood, henbane, and whatever else of vegetable wickedness the climate could produce, all flourishing with hideous luxuriance?
Chpt 15flourishing = thriving (growing well)
Definition:
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(flourish as in: the business is flourishing) to thrive (grow or develop well)