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flourish as in: the business is flourishing
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The children are flourishing.
flourishing = growing or developing well
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The business flourished from day one.
flourished = grew or developed well
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The garden flourishes in the spring.
flourishes = grows or develops well
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My art career is going to flourish in Phoenix.
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flourish = thrive (grow or develop well)
- 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)
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The men who had befriended Louie in captivity found their way back into civilian life. Some flourished; some struggled for the rest of their lives.
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flourished = thrived
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They had flourished as the dominant life form on the planet in the Jurassic, 190 million years ago.
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flourished = thrived (did well)
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And, eventually, man will nourish your sands, where the game will once again flourish.
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many flourishing potted plants
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He lived and flourished in such moments.
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The over-zealous converts who had smarted under Mr. Brown's restraining hand now flourished in full favour.
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flourished = thrived (did well)
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Life was rich, full, and flourishing.
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Everywhere they went, they saw signs urging Wonderlanders to attend meetings of the numberless Black Imagination societies that now flourished in every banqueting hall, while the few White Imagination societies were forced to gather in stealth and secret.
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flourished = thrived (did well)
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Great place for young life to flourish.
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It was the type that seemed to flourish best under the dominion of the Party.
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It was encircled by huge old willows and tall firs, beneath which flourished flowers that loved the shade.
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The vampire live on, and cannot die by mere passing of the time, he can flourish when that he can fatten on the blood of the living.
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He laughed a little the other day, and said I seemed to be flourishing in spite of my wall-paper.
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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.
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One of his most intimate friends was a merchant who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty.
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flourishing = thriving or prospering
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Great dynasties of creatures arising, flourishing, dying away.
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flourishing = thriving (doing well)
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Eventually, Mansfield was untied and taken to a civilian prison, where he flourished.
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flourished = thrived
- Thanks to the stealing, a black market with a remarkable diversity of goods flourished in camp. (source)
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His powers of observation had served him well in a society where only the shrewdest, most opportunistic, most selfish, and least loyal to friends flourished.
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County officials say they eliminated the springs out of concern that bathers might become gravely ill from virulent microbes thought to flourish in the thermal pools.
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When time passed and the animals had evidently not starved to death, Frederick and Pilkington changed their tune and began to talk of the terrible wickedness that now flourished on Animal Farm.
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But he cannot flourish without this diet, he eat not as others.
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flourish = thrive (grow or develop well)
- Who can flourish in the midst of diseases that kill off whole peoples. (source)
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The Debating Club flourished and gave several concerts; there were one or two parties almost verging on grown-up affairs; there were sleigh drives and skating frolics galore.
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In old Greece, in old Rome, he flourish in Germany all over, in France, in India, even in the Chermosese, and in China, so far from us in all ways, there even is he, and the peoples for him at this day.
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In one spot you view rugged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and on the sudden turn of a promontory, flourishing vineyards with green sloping banks and a meandering river and populous towns occupy the scene.
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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.
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flourish = thrive (grow well)
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Clerval desired the intercourse of the men of genius and talent who flourished at this time, but this was with me a secondary object; I was principally occupied with the means of obtaining the information necessary for the completion of my promise and quickly availed myself of the letters of introduction that I had brought with me, addressed to the most distinguished natural philosophers.
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flourished = thrived or prospered
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She had flourished during the period between the early days of Massachusetts and the close of the seventeenth century.
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flourished = lived
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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?
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Whilst bloody treason flourished over us.
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...to see whether the vine flourished... (6:11)
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otherwise a seducer flourishes, and a poor maid is undone.
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flourishes = thrives (does well)
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flourish as in: dismissed them with a flourish
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She entered with a great flourish.
flourish = showy gesture
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- He bowed with a flourish.
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The music ends with a flourish.
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flourish = a showy or ornamented manner
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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.
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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.
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flourished = waved (or made a showy gesture with)
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Seized with an immediate desire to reveal himself, Harry pulled off the cloak with a flourish.
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flourish = a showy gesture
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I thought it must be some kind of culminating prank, the senior class leaving Devon with a flourish.
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He would return with a flourish, and regain the seven wasted years.
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Its voice was thin, needle-sharp and insistent; The three boys rushed forward and Jack drew his knife again with a flourish.
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Mr. Kimberley flourished his cane at the silent children.
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Now, it plunged the book back under his arm, pressed it tight to sweating armpit, rushed out empty, with a magician's flourish!
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He swung his arm out with a flourish.
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… and his correspondent signed herself with a flourish his ever Constance Culmington.
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- He unpacks the embroidered handbag, and some good sausages come to light; Lewandowski takes up the knife with a flourish and saws the meat into slices. (source)
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the bloated curves and flourishes
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flourishes = showy gestures (ornamental flowing curves)
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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.
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flourish = show
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He flourished the conch.
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He flourished a white calling card.
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flourished = used a wave or showy gesture to produce
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Flourish of cornets.
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flourish = a showy gesture
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Old Montague is come, And flourishes his blade in spite of me.
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flourishes = waves in a showy way
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[Flourish. Exeunt.] (at end of Act 1 Scene 4)
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flourish = wave or make a showy gesture
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ALL: Hail, King of Scotland!
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- [Flourish. Exeunt.] (at end of Act 5 Scene 8) (source)
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SCENE IV. Forres. A Room in the Palace.
[Flourish. Enter Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox, and Attendants.] (source)flourish = fanfare played by trumpets to announce the entry or exit of royalty
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Exeunt. flourish.
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Flourish. Enter, with drum and colours, Malcolm, old Siward, Ross, Lennox, Angus, Caithness, Menteith, and Soldiers.
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- The Capitol seal is back with a final musical flourish.† (source)
- He opens it with a flourish and it unfurls to the floor, unraveling down the aisle in front of him.† (source)
- We'll all meet at Flourish and Blotts in an hour to buy your schoolbooks," said Mrs. Weasley, setting off with Ginny.† (source)
- But then a passionate conversation breaks out amongst them, accompanied by maps and the flourish of pencils.† (source)
- He says: Sakiel-Norn is now a heap of stones, but once it was a flourishing centre of trade and exchange.† (source)
- His mother swung the door open with a flourish.† (source)
- With a flourish I whip our contract out of my bag.† (source)
- Then with a flourish, the maitre d' raised the dome and presented Emile's newest specialty: Goose a la Sofia.† (source)
- He opens the doors with a flourish and steps outside.† (source)
- There's a large, flourishing Jewish community there," Michael replied.† (source)
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- There is nothing more disappointing than creating a new border only to see it fail to flourish, or to watch a row of beautiful alliums destroyed overnight by some slimy culprit.† (source)
- Some had seven or eight and didn't understand how fortunate they were, how blessed that their children had flourished in their wombs, lived to squirm in their arms and take the milk from their breasts.† (source)
- He stepped aside, flourishing his arm toward the attractive couple behind them.† (source)
- "Behind the thirteenth door"—the guide flourishes one of his impossibly wrinkled hands—"is the Sea of Flames."† (source)
- And he let the thought sit there, in the man Jack's head for a moment, before he opened the gate with a flourish.† (source)
- At that moment, appropriately enough, a flourish of trumpets and a crash of cymbals was heard from the passing parade.† (source)
- The mayor spoke with a flourish.† (source)
- Nine a. m. The prosecutor swiveled with a faintly military flourish and executed a tight circle over the courtroom's waxed floor, his hands against the small of his back neatly.† (source)
- But then, with a dramatic flourish, he whipped off the tie and draped it around my neck.† (source)
- Both flourished well enough, compared to what they would have done back in England.† (source)
- The name of the store, "Jerrold's," was painted in vivid-red letters across the window—in a flourishing, handwritten style.† (source)
- The Baudelaire orphans followed Uncle Monty to the cloth-covered cage, and with a flourish—the word "flourish" here means "a sweeping gesture, often used to show off"—he swooped the cloth off the cage.† (source)
- He says they're hoping it fades with more prayer and high school graduation, but he insists that it's only going to flourish.† (source)
- And then she swept offstage in a flourish, heading into the house to retrieve her clothes.† (source)
- One of his pockets was stuffed with a great white kerchief on which he wiped his palm before sweeping his hand over the chosen chess piece with great flourish.† (source)
- It's a rare plant called drapeweed that flourishes in thin soil.† (source)
- I swing open the door with a flourish.† (source)
- The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.† (source)
- He loved to be in that house, admiring the craftsmanship, the great care put into the most eccentric details and flourishes—a mural over the mantel, one-of-a-kind ironwork on every balcony.† (source)
- Being in Berkeley, home to many fine restaurants, I felt compelled to add a few over-the-top menu flourishes: The last item was one of Angelo's homemade wines.† (source)
- They say that under those ashes every kind of life flourished, making this land the most fertile in the region.† (source)
- His writing was beautiful and powerful, and the lively and vigorous flourishes in his calligraphy awed us.† (source)
- Levana made a grand, flourishing gesture, drawing everyone's attention to her, though it resulted in nothing more than taking a sip of tea.† (source)
- The weed that people call Communist Patcha (because it flourished in Kerala like Communism) smothered the more exotic plants.† (source)
- With uncertain hands he lit one then with a flourish threw the pack on the painted Japanese table between us.† (source)
- This seems like a place where nothing should flourish or grow, where the sun should never shine: a place on the edge, at the limit, a place completely removed from time and happiness and life.† (source)
- The planet is truly alive, flourishing.† (source)
- He pulled out the stone with a flourish and set it gently on the scarred counter, where it gleamed with light from the dancing flames.† (source)
- In a soft voice, without flourishes, he would have told the exact truth.† (source)
- I get off the bike with a flourish to show him how expert I am.† (source)
- Valley Teen Gangs Flourish† (source)
- "I," she said with a flourish and bow, "am honored to sing Missy's song, which she wrote just for this occasion."† (source)
- His garden flourished and so did his health, and he trumpeted his successes in the pages of his magazine.† (source)
- He finished the song with a flourish, and Roent clapped his hands a couple of times to get everyone's attention.† (source)
- The nickname came from the tram proprietors Kon and Heller, two Jewish magnates who were in the service of the Gestapo and did a flourishing trade through it.† (source)
- All firmness, and too many flourishes.† (source)
- "It sounds like you were extremely lucky," Dr. Cullen said, smiling as he signed my chart with a flourish.† (source)
- The margins of her parents' letters, always a block of her mother's hasty penmanship followed by her father's flourishing, elegant hand, are frequently decorated with drawings of animals done by Ashima's father, and Ashima tapes these on the wall over Gogol's crib.† (source)
- After work, he'd sometimes bring home a small toy or a piece of candy, and he'd present them with a flourish, building a bit of drama.† (source)
- In any case, once you pay attention to the name game, you pretty much know things will end badly, since daisies can't flourish in winter, and things do.† (source)
- He looks up on occasion, whispering for me to get a good look at the fluidity of Ma's bowing, and he laughs heartily when Ma stirs the crowd with dramatic flourishes.† (source)
- Such is the innate politeness of the Olinka that they rushed about preparing food for them, though precious little is left, since many of the gardens that flourish at this time of the year have been destroyed.† (source)
- Sighing, she signed the note with a flourish that tore through the paper, and stuck it to the cash register.† (source)
- Reece reached out her hand and waved it in front of Ridley's face, just a simple flourish, like a magician waving his hand over a top hat.† (source)
- With a flourish of her handkerchief and a forceful clearing of her nose, Tante Jans let us know that the moment for sentiment had passed.† (source)
- In earlier times our mother did that, with a flourish.† (source)
- There was a huge, shrieking flourish of brass.† (source)
- The family that used to run the place, after arriving in the city following the Second World War, and flourishing there for three generations, had recently sold up and emigrated to Canada.† (source)
- Mythologica notions of this kind flourished all over the world until philosophers began to tamper with them.† (source)
- In fact, research flourished.† (source)
- It surrounded Luke's small back garden, where the only plants flourishing seemed to be the weeds that had sprung up through the paving stones, cracking them into powdery shards.† (source)
- Anytime is a good time for Hamburger Helper à la Dave ," he said, passing his hand over the frying pan with an exaggerated flourish.† (source)
- Over the years, both Mary 's dance career and mine continued to flourish.† (source)
- Enki's water-his semen, his data, his me-flow throughout the country of Sumer and cause it to flourish.† (source)
- It was the beginning of a passionate spiritual relationship that was to last the remainder of their lives and, if their predictions have come true, must still be flourishing in the Hereafter.† (source)
- I remember Sarawa handed me a garden hose with a great flourish, as if it had been a crystal goblet, and turned on a tap somewhere.† (source)
- More perhaps than any other refugee group in Clarkston, Liberian boys and young men were susceptible to the lure of the American gangs that flourished in the public schools and in the parking lots of the apartment complexes around town.† (source)
- Dr. Juvenal Urbino imitated her with good humor, making a cavalier's flourish with his top hat, but he did not win the compassionate smile he had hoped for.† (source)
- The fare was a dollar, so I thought ten cents was exactly right and gave the driver my dime with a little flourish and a smile.† (source)
- Perhaps I should not have told the Baron to let this religion flourish where it will, even among the folk of pan and graben, he told himself.† (source)
- So he hurriedly threw his can into the car trunk and made a stagy flourish with his hand before opening the side door.† (source)
- Richard pulls open the double doors to the bar, throws his hands into the air with a flourish, and ushers Lil and Em, giggling and whispering, inside.† (source)
- Then he plucked it out again and flourished it.† (source)
- The sax player finished with a flourish and stood up to bow.† (source)
- If one considers the difference between my father at such moments and a figure such as Mr Jack Neighbours even with the best of his technical flourishes, I believe one may begin to distinguish what it is that separates a 'great' butler from a merely competent one.† (source)
- It must be the striking architecture, the high steep roof, the tall chimneys, the columns, the little flourishes here and there that are either quaint or sinister—I can't make up my mind.† (source)
- Muffled, far away, fading, she chanted on with a rustle, tick, tickle, tap, flourish of caliper hands.† (source)
- The little pots of basil she'd bought in Butte were flourishing.† (source)
- For every fast food idea that swept the nation, there were countless others that flourished briefly — or never had a prayer.† (source)
- We grow where we are not seen, we flourish where we are not heard, the thick undergrowth of an unlikely planting.† (source)
- Not surprisingly, relations between the landlord and Hazleton did not flourish happily during the Army operation and the second Ebola outbreak.† (source)
- But Rwanda is flourishing precisely because it has figured out how to turn people like Claudine into economic assets.† (source)
- Right then, the waitress arrived with their food, and she placed it in front of them with an efficient flourish.† (source)
- "Your wish is my command," he said with an old-time flourish.† (source)
- We execute a turn before the stove and arrive at the rear door, where Ghosh works the lock and shoots back the bolt with a flourish.† (source)
- He tore a sheet from the back of his journal and flourished it in front of me.† (source)
- I'm about to reach for the door handle—but he gets there before me, opens the car door with a flourish, and stands to attention, waiting for me to get in.† (source)
- Not that Perry really considered it a smiling matter, for Dick, flourishing a dangerous weapon, could have played a decisive role in plans he himself was forming.† (source)
- (She promenades to the radio and, with an arrogant flourish, turns off the good loud blues that is playing) Enough of this assimilationist junk† (source)
- The five cabinet members then rolled up the large parchment and, with many bows and flourishes, retired.† (source)
- She ended with a farewell and the largest flourish of all—Hattie.† (source)
- Cedric moves the conversation over to the Sharp girls, two beautiful, leggy sisters-children of a police detective-who are both flourishing at the University of Maryland.† (source)
- He had meant it as blatant irony, since of course feather beds were exactly Jake's style, but the discussion was so solemn that his flourish went unnoticed.† (source)
- Pony called after her, flourishing the umbrella.† (source)
- The demonstration comes to an end with a flourish of applause from HALLY and WILLY) HALLY.† (source)
- August lifts a piece of toast with flourish, smiling broadly with closed lips.† (source)
- When he finishes, I bow with a grand flourish.† (source)
- 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)
- What would happen, he asked the audience, if programs treated drug-susceptible tb successfully and let mdr flourish?† (source)
- Black street gangs in particular flourished in Chicago, with membership in the tens of thousands by the 1970s.† (source)
- Nately gave them ninety dollars with a gallant flourish, after borrowing twenty dollars from Yossarian, thirty-five dollars from Dunbar and seventeen dollars from Hungry Joe.† (source)
- They just lived in the hot houses with the two-inch-long palmetto bugs, almost in sight of the condos of the more prosperous Hispanics who came to Miami and flourished, leaving black people behind.† (source)
- However, Gnosticism is not a flourishing religion in today's world climate—it's not even an existing religion in today's world climate.† (source)
- That night, shirtless in his rented room, under a fan lazily pushing around the hot air, the young man opened the book and, in a flourish he had been fine-tuning for years, signed his name: David Singer.† (source)
- Wincing, Max turned back to M. Renard, who seemed to enjoy, the crowd's attention as he gestured at the First Years with a dramatic flourish.† (source)
- Countertops and floor were honeycombed with trails of sugar left by careless tea drinkers The roaches flourished in the kitchen as well as in the bathroom.† (source)
- With a great flourish and an exaggerated bow, Tom announces his arrival.† (source)
- He sheathed the blade with a flourish.† (source)
- But while that Tree flourishes she will never come down into Narnia.† (source)
- Orchids flourished out of reach or for some reason not to be touched.† (source)
- We have a flourishing business.† (source)
- It grows abundantly in Gondor, and there is richer and larger than in the North, where it is never found wild, and flourishes only in warm sheltered places like Longbottom.† (source)
- And once exposed, it behaved as though it were itself a plant and flourished into a huge suede-gray flower that throbbed like fever, and sighed like the shift of sand dunes.† (source)
- At its peak, in the summer of '42, Manzanar was the biggest city between Reno and Los Angeles, a special kind of western boom town that sprang from the sand, flourished, had its day, and now has all but disappeared.† (source)
- Here, and throughout our country, may simple manners, pure morals, and true religion flourish forever!† (source)
- Even then I felt the absence of something I couldn't then name and it hurt me for my mother, who I instinctively knew needed it, and would, I imagined, flourish under it.† (source)
- Mrs. Mompellion called thegarden her little Eden, and 1 believe God did not mislike her claim, for all manner of flowers flourished there, far beyond what are commonly expected to grow and thrive through the hard winters on this mountainside.† (source)
- Maybe I didn't want to think that something so foul could flourish in two generations.† (source)
- Cotton was king during the Valley's summer, a crop that flourished despite the lack of rain.† (source)
- I signed "Ella Martinez" with a flourish, and the clerk smiled at me.† (source)
- The idea of a single rich donor solving all his problems with one flourish of a pen lodged in Mortenson's mind.† (source)
- If the first shoots of those freedoms sprang up in England, linguistically they flourished even more luxuriantly in America, where they were championed by two great writers of the nineteenth century.† (source)
- She had two green apples in each hand, which she raised above her head with a flourish.† (source)
- She ended with a slow, subdued flourish of treble chords and finally one soft single bass note, like a Graphophone winding down.† (source)
- If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete fool out of you.† (source)
- It was for a laugh, for a laugh, all the kids had laughed and laughed, and the droll tuba player of the old Elk's band had rendered it solo on his helical horn; with comical flourishes and doleful phrasing, "Boo boo boo booooo, Poor Robin clean"—a mock funeral dirge ....But who was Robin and for what had he been hurt and humiliated?† (source)
- In milliseconds the rebuke was over; a smile as false as it was broad cracked the mask, and with a nod and a flourish the woman took a pencil from the clerk and initialed the sales slip.† (source)
- All were written in a flourishing, educated hand and bore the same simple signature: "A Friend."† (source)
- It is an undeniable fact that complex organisms are rare on earth, while simple organisms flourish in abundance.† (source)
- The authorities did not regret giving permission, for once the garden began to flourish, I often provided the warders with some of my best tomatoes and onions.† (source)
- With a flourish Rellin pulled away the brown blanket that was covering the big box.† (source)
- While visiting the barn to oversee his horses, Giannini noticed how Oriley was flourishing under Smith's care.† (source)
- Minor flourishes—some comrades did not have phones; some could be reached only at certain hours; some outlying warrens did not have phone service.† (source)
- He used to write her letters every day, when he still had the strength, long letters in an old-fashioned script with flourishes and curlicues.† (source)
- Mick parks with an overt flourish.† (source)
- It cannot make a flourish, vary the thickness of a line, or tantalize the reader with a lapse into an indecipherable but lovely style.† (source)
- She landed a job as a waitress, making her feel needed and appreciated, which in turn made her esteem flourish.† (source)
- Two resplendent cars came shooting at full speed into the parking lot and stopped with a flourish of screeching brakes.† (source)
- I could say that I believe in holding on to rituals and traditions because they helped us flourish in a new country.† (source)
- His arrival was greeted with full presidential courtesies—simultaneous 21-gun salutes from USS Gilmore and USS Yosemite in the harbor, and the playing of ruffles and flourishes followed by the national anthem by the Marine drum and bugle corps.† (source)
- But what worried them most — and worried the people they talked to when they got back — was to see how the things which are against God's laws of nature flourish there, just as if they had a right to.† (source)
- Over the centuries, they had flourished and grown strong once more, attuning themselves to the ways of mysterious magics.† (source)
- It flourished and became a great movement in Jewish life.† (source)
- Even with methodical training they were inclined to run off at the mouth, make unnecessary displays of themselves, unconsciously slip in the tiniest flourish that could scare off a nervous contact.† (source)
- Walls of flowers—ochre, lavender, pink—would flourish and die within a month, followed by even more exaggerated and inbred colours.† (source)
- GEORGE: (Flourishing the flowers) SNAP WENT THE DRAGONS!† (source)
- There were neglected fields of long-vanished homesteads, the broomsedge flourishing there around the rock bones of chimneys without houses.† (source)
- Grover took off his watch and presented it to him with a flourish.† (source)
- Economic and technological competitiveness is essential, and America's economy and technology have flourished because of the rule of law and the "assets" of a free and open society.† (source)
- I have grown and flourished as a man and as a man of God because of the influence of my parents, and I am forever grateful for them.† (source)
- Every institution grows and flourishes in proportion to the amount of resources put towards its formation and support.† (source)
- It was not the best era for starting a business, heaven knows, but apparently Junior flourished, first remodeling and then building from scratch various stately houses in the neighborhoods of Guilford, Roland Park, and Homeland.† (source)
- And because it grew and flourished it got the power that money brings, so that to attempt to withstand it was like trying to stop the onward rush of the great juggernaut.† (source)
- Gabriel signed the document with an indecipherable flourish and resumed his contemplation of the painting.† (source)
- No place in the world prides itself more on its vigilance and realism, no place considers itself more qualified to censure any flourish of rhetoric or extravagance of aspiration.† (source)
- As England is Denmark's faithful tributary ...as love between them like the palm might flourish, etcetera ...that on the knowing of this contents, without delay of any kind, should those bearers, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, put to sudden death—2' He double-takes.† (source)
- With a flourish, Gallimard directs our attention to another part of the stage.† (source)
- Commerce had enjoyed the rituals of military drill and had flourished in the environment of an austere and congenial discipline.† (source)
- For these are the last remaining members of a race that flourished over four continents as far back in geologic time as the upper Jurassic period.† (source)
- He said this last with a flourish that indicated the grandness of her attitude.† (source)
- Adenauer, Erhard, Reuter, and other leaders understood the practical importance of liberty—that just as truth can flourish only when the journalist is given freedom of speech, so prosperity can come about only when the farmer and businessman enjoy economic freedom.† (source)
- With fluttering fingertips her hand rose automatically, though with a final coquettish flourish, to touch the kerchief at the crown of her head.† (source)
- He was a quiet, gentle man, with a flourishing mustache, with not much to say to the women and children in his house; when he did sit down, it would be in his wooden platform swing outside, usually with his pipe and holding one of the farm kittens on his knee.† (source)
- Yet he flourished on the Domain; it was his setting.† (source)
- Won't it be nice for both of you if he flourishes in an atmosphere of chlorine?† (source)
- Vasudeva's smile flourished more warmly.† (source)
- The forest, however, well rid of him, flourished proudly in freedom as though released from captivity.† (source)
- Flourished on contention, Papa had said.† (source)
- Our fathers believed that if this noble view of the rights of man was to flourish it must be rooted in democracy.† (source)
- On his refusal to do this had his life depended, and John's secret heart had flourished in its wickedness until the day his sin first overtook him.† (source)
- Powell tore the tape out of the typewriter and presented it to the D.A. with a flourish.† (source)
- The Billv Bosnan Band played a flourish.† (source)
- This is the copy of Advanced Potion-Making that you purchased from Flourish and Blotts?† (source)
- Mr. Caruso said, pounding away on the keyboard with a flourish.† (source)
- Eragon disengaged with a flourish, thrust, and then riposted as Murtagh parried, dancing away.† (source)
- They had each signed their first names with zigzag flourishes.† (source)
- Trip tucked his juggling stones into various pockets without so much as a flourish.† (source)
- I must remember to place an order at Flourish and Blotts!† (source)
- Such secretiveness could not flourish without misapprehensions.† (source)
- I must say, your agapanthus are flourishing.† (source)
- I," she waved her hands with a flourish, "am the housekeeper and cook.† (source)
- But as large farms flourished, the small ones struggled.† (source)
- Joe finished his medley with a flourish.† (source)
- He plays with more confidence now and becomes more animated, working the vibrato with a flourish.† (source)
- And with each "oomp," he would do a wild, whole-body flourish with his rag.† (source)
- They divided into three columns-one for each table-and deposited the dishes with a flourish.† (source)
- Halfway through "Ticket to Ride," the band wound up in a brassy flourish.† (source)
- Where roofleaf had flourished from time's'beginning, there was cassava.† (source)
- Art and architecture, literature, music, philosophy, and science flourished as never before.† (source)
- With a theatrical flourish and the command of Presto!† (source)
- As Harry entered Flourish and Blotts, the manager came hurrying toward him.† (source)
- He kept replaying his own exploits, tacking on little flourishes that never happened.† (source)
- "I will not follow your laws so long as they permit disobedience to flourish," said Levana.† (source)
- But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.† (source)
- Anti-Semitism was flourishing long before the German invasion.† (source)
- An hour later, they headed for Flourish and Blotts.† (source)
- Gangs flourish when there's a lack of social recreation, decent education or employment.† (source)
- She flourishes her brilliant fingernails and breaks into childlike laughter.† (source)
- Macon pulled out Lena's chair with a flourish.† (source)
- Enrique signed his name with a flourish.† (source)
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[A crowd of people in the street leading to the Capitol, among them Artemidorus and the Soothsayer. Flourish. Enter Caesar, Brutus, ..., and others.]
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flourish = fanfare played by trumpets to announce the entry or exit of royalty
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[Flourish and shout.]
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flourish = fanfare played by trumpets or other horns to announce the entry or exit of royalty
- [Shout. Flourish.] (source)
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