All 4 Uses of
prosperity
in
Gone with the Wind
- The O'Haras were a clannish tribe, clinging to one another in prosperity as well as in adversity, not for any overweening family affection but because they had learned through grim years that to survive a family must present an unbroken front to the world.†
Chpt 1.3
- And, quickening all of the affairs of the section, was the high tide of prosperity then rolling over the South.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- They have ruined our prosperity, set us back fifty years and placed too heavy a burden on the shoulders of our boys who should be in school and our old men who should be sleeping in the sun.†
Chpt 4.41
- It seemed even sadder, in retrospect, beside the bustle and prosperity of Atlanta.†
Chpt 5.57
Definition:
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(prosperity) a state of doing well -- especially economically