Both Uses of
prosperity
in
The Hobbit
- But there seemed small need for watching in the days of our prosperity, and the guards were made over comfortable, perhaps — otherwise we might have had longer warnings of the coming of the dragon, and things might have been different.†
Chpt 13 *
- "The new Master is of wiser kind," said Balin, "and very popular, for, of course, he gets most of the credit for the present prosperity.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
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(prosperity) a state of doing well -- especially economically