All 8 Uses of
prosperous
in
Atlas Shrugged
- He enjoyed the sight of a prosperous street; not more than every fourth one of the stores was out of business, its windows dark and empty.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- They were the unemployed from the rotting hovels of what had once been a prosperous town.†
Chpt 1.2
- I'm not so sure it was great-building that Line for all those prosperous industrialists in Colorado, when there are so many poor people in blighted areas who need transportation.†
Chpt 1.9
- He looked at the shining automobile parked outside his window, in the muddy square that had once been the center of a prosperous county seat; he looked with a faint, wistful wonder at his two unknown visitors.†
Chpt 1.10
- Jim boasted that this had been the most prosperous six months in Taggart history.†
Chpt 2.1
- She had had to wrench the money out of men deaf with panic: the freight revenues were falling at such a rate that the men of the Board had begun to tremble, staring at Jim's idea of the most prosperous year in Taggart history.†
Chpt 2.4
- The extent of the misery now spreading through this once prosperous country is the extent of the injustice which you have suffered.†
Chpt 2.7
- One could tell the members of the conference when they began filing out, by their clothes and their manner-ostentatiously prosperous clothes and a manner of overbearing timidity, as if they were guiltily trying to pretend that they were what they appeared to be for that moment.†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(prosperous) successful or good -- especially with regard to finances or wealth