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  • Ember will prosper if all …. citizens …. do …. their …. best.  (source)
  • We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive.  (source)
  • They prospered; they had more daughters who joined them in peace; it was the beginning of wisdom.  (source)
    prospered = did well
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  • My relatives worked hard all the time but never seemed to prosper.  (source)
    prosper = do well
  • Savannah emerged from the war impoverished, but it recovered within a few years and prospered once again.  (source)
    prospered = did well
  • The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.  (source)
    prospering = doing well
  • "The realm prospers from such events, my lord," Grand Maester Pycelle said.†  (source)
    prospers = does well
  • 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She prospereth" in older English, today we say "She prospers."
  • The hero, when to manly years he grew, Alcides' uncle, old Licymnius, slew; For this, constrain'd to quit his native place, And shun the vengeance of the Herculean race, A fleet he built, and with a numerous train Of willing exiles wander'd o'er the main; Where, many seas and many sufferings past, On happy Rhodes the chief arrived at last: There in three tribes divides his native band, And rules them peaceful in a foreign land; Increased and prosper'd in their new abodes By mighty Jove, the sire of men and gods; With joy they saw the growing empire rise, And showers of wealth descending from the skies.†  (source)
    prosper'd = did well
  • "Once he got into the university environment, I thought he would prosper, I really did!" his brother Mark says.  (source)
    prosper = do well
  • Although he had prospered in his motherland Okonkwo knew that he would have prospered even more in Umuofia, in the land of his fathers where men were bold and warlike.  (source)
    prospered = done well
  • Rex was not prospering quite as well as had been predicted; he remained on the fringe of the Government, prominent but vaguely suspect.  (source)
    prospering = having success
  • For a decade he has run a parfumerie on the rue Vauborel: a straggling business that prospers only when the cod are being salted and the stones of the town itself begin to stink.†  (source)
    prospers = does well
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