flourish

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The business flourished from day one.

The garden flourishes in the spring.

And, eventually, man will nourish your sands, where the game will once again flourish.  (source) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988

A century after Franklin's death, the eminent explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson pointed out that the English explorer had never taken the trouble to learn the survival skills practiced by the Indians and the Eskimos, peoples who had managed to flourish "for generations, bringing up their children and taking care of their aged" in the same harsh country that killed Franklin.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

That night we camped on the shore of a flourishing green land.  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

They had flourished as the dominant life form on the planet in the Jurassic, 190 million years ago.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

It's a rare plant called drapeweed that flourishes in thin soil.†  (source) Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society, 2007

IN May when every lusty heart flourisheth and bourgeoneth, for as the season is lusty to behold and comfortable, so man and woman rejoice and gladden of summer coming with his fresh flowers: for winter with his rough winds and blasts causeth a lusty man and woman to cower and sit fast by the fire.†  (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

Sprung from my bed, a godlike hero came, The bravest sure that ever bore the name; Like some fair plant beneath my careful hand He grew, he flourish'd, and he graced the land: To Troy I sent him!†  (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.

Frost shall freeze, and fire melt wood; the earth shall give fruit, and ice shall bridge dark water, make roofs, mysteriously lock earth's flourishings; but the fetters of frost shall also fall, fair weather return, and the reaching sun restore the restless sea......We wait.†  (source) John Gardner, Grendel, 1971

"La sakes, now, does it?" said Uncle Tom, looking with a respectful, admiring air, as his young teacher flourishingly scrawled q's and g's innumerable for his edification; and then, taking the pencil in his big, heavy fingers, he patiently recommenced.†  (source) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852

My art career is going to flourish in Phoenix.  (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005

many flourishing potted plants  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005

He bowed with a flourish.

The music ends with a flourish.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

He arrived there with his trademark flourish, bursting through a door and shouting, "Nanda!" at a group of startled POW officers, demanding to know what they were doing.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

Seized with an immediate desire to reveal himself, Harry pulled off the cloak with a flourish.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005

The heavy charms on Sydelle Pulaski's bracelet clinked and clunked as she raised a full fork and flourished it in a practiced ritual before aiming it at her open mouth.  (source) Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game, 1978

the bloated curves and flourishes  (source) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper, 1892

I thought it must be some kind of culminating prank, the senior class leaving Devon with a flourish.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

Mr. Kimberley flourished his cane at the silent children.  (source) Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, 1958

All the pedestrians in Greenpoint were bundled up in their cold-weather finery, red autumnal plaids and flourishes of thick, lustrous flannel, even though it was summer.  (source) Ling Ma, Severance, 2019

He would return with a flourish, and regain the seven wasted years.  (source) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, 1958

He flourished a white calling card.  (source) Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1962

Old Montague is come, And flourishes his blade in spite of me.  (source) William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 1599

Later, the men around Montag could not say if they had really seen anything Perhaps the merest flourish of light and motion in the sky.  (source) Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953

[Flourish and shout.]  (source) William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 1599

[Shout. Flourish.]  (source) William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 1599

[A crowd of people in the street leading to the Capitol, among them Artemidorus and the Soothsayer. Flourish. Enter Caesar, Brutus, ..., and others.]  (source) William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 1599