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  • Despite this, their own kingdoms have continued to prosper, but the old city of Wisdom has fallen into great disrepair, and there is no one to set things right.   (source)
    prosper = do 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
  • 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
  • It was all well enough in the Southland, under the law of love and fellowship, to respect private property and personal feelings; but in the Northland, under the law of club and fang, whoso took such things into account was a fool, and in so far as he observed them he would fail to prosper.   (source)
    prosper = do well
  • With cheap raw materials and cheap labour and an expanding market, how could he have failed to prosper?†   (source)
  • My king, awaken your dynasty and let it prosper!†   (source)
  • Those who tap into it and use it prosper.†   (source)
  • To prosper, a zoo needs parliamentary government, democratic elections, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of association, rule of law and everything else enshrined in India's Constitution.†   (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)
  • The glass factory prospered, and the owner decided to expand the business by moving it to Krakow, a thriving city about three hundred fifty miles southwest of Narewka.†   (source)
  • Farmers who embrace the new methods will prosper, but those that don't are already stumbling around."†   (source)
  • 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)
  • She told him that she had prayed for God to give her a message for our family, and a small verse from the Old Testament zipped into her mind: "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."†   (source)
  • Wand of cider, never prosper.†   (source)
  • "The realm prospers from such events, my lord," Grand Maester Pycelle said.†   (source)
  • Not only was he an outsider, an Amsterdammer, but he was prospering.†   (source)
  • People come here to prosper.†   (source)
  • He bought out a bankrupt cropdusting company, turned it into an airmail service, and prospered.†   (source)
  • Wealth flowed into our cities, and men prospered.†   (source)
  • And as he did so well fanning and everything he turned his hand to prospered, he decided to open a store, and try his luck selling dry goods as well.†   (source)
  • Root and Burnham prospered.†   (source)
  • Henry Wilcox advises him, through Helen Schlegel, to leave his banking position for a more secure firm, but the advice proves to be completely wrong, as his old bank continues to prosper while his new post is eliminated.†   (source)
  • We will improve, prosper, perfect ourselves.†   (source)
  • He was the one, by the way, who made the family fortune, but I don't want you to imagine him as the sort of man who slaved over his business, working diligently and watching it grow, prospering slowly over time.†   (source)
  • The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows — a wall against the wind.†   (source)
  • He means our country beginning to prosper, Free Zones going up everywhere, the coast a clutter of clubs and resorts.†   (source)
  • Free of British domination, the nation has prospered and I along with it.†   (source)
  • Whenever Grandmother started lecturing him about his ancestors—how they'd come over from China and prospered in the import/export business, eventually becoming one of the wealthiest Chinese families in Vancouver—well, it was boring.†   (source)
  • They will go to cities where they will live in shacks and drink cheap alcohol all because we have no land to give them where they could prosper and multiply.†   (source)
  • From the first the warren prospered.†   (source)
  • And last, I summon spirit to complete our circle and ask that you fill us with connection, so that as your children we may prosper together.†   (source)
  • Many parents seem to believe that a child cannot prosper unless it is hitched to the right name; names are seen to carry great aesthetic or even predictive powers.†   (source)
  • At the urging of Father Nicanor, he arranged for the transfer of Catarino's store to a back street and he closed down several scandalous establishments that prospered in the center of town.†   (source)
  • They prospered in a small way; there was enough money in their account in San Antonio that they could have considered themselves rich, had that notion interested them.†   (source)
  • Some years the "men's crops" have good harvests and the men are flush with cash; in other years it is the women who prosper.†   (source)
  • Vail could put a bubble over it, cut us off from importing anything from the rest of the world, and we would not only survive, we would eat well and prosper.†   (source)
  • They would work the land, have a family, and maybe prosper.†   (source)
  • Live and prosper.†   (source)
  • There for a thousand years they were little troubled by wars, and they prospered and multiplied after the Dark Plague (S.R. 37) until the disaster of the Long Winter and the famine that followed it.†   (source)
  • Grandfather prospered.†   (source)
  • Thus our livestock prospered.†   (source)
  • Germany loses and prospers.†   (source)
  • I knelt and she said, "te doy esta bendicion en el nombre del Padre, del Hijo, y el Espiritu Santo," and she wished that I would prosper from the instruction of her brothers.†   (source)
  • So after an hour, I've accumulated two pens, a paper knife, a mini box of Ferrero Rocher chocolates, a helium balloon with Save Prosper on the side, and a T-shirt with a cartoon on the front, sponsored by some mobile phone company.†   (source)
  • She'd prospered these last few years, buying out the business next door, adding a kitchen, a full restaurant, and hiring more bar girls to serve customers.†   (source)
  • But the Jews did not only prosper economically.†   (source)
  • Clanton wasn't exactly prospering, but it wasn't dying either like so many small towns in the rural South.†   (source)
  • Thanks to a lot of hard work and teamwork, she and I watched our family grow and prosper.†   (source)
  • The fact that the patriarch owned a sedan chair was taken as the ultimate measure of just how greatly the family had prospered.†   (source)
  • For the past year he had been working on a book about the artistic decoration of buildings and its influence, and why people prospered in some buildings but not in others.†   (source)
  • The family had prospered from its lend seam for many years, and their house had grown, through well-built additions, into one of the finest in the village.†   (source)
  • That it had so prospered, let alone endured the ruthless round of drought, flood and felony, was mainly due to Tom's grandfather John.†   (source)
  • To survive and prosper, he expected to give a hundred and ten percent.†   (source)
  • He was always eager for news of Caroline, who was prospering in Baltimore as the Prophet Jeremiah claimed only the wicked do.†   (source)
  • ** * Now this is the Law of the Jungle, as old and as true as the sky, And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.†   (source)
  • The Shaper sings--the harp soughing out through the long room like summer wind--"By deeds worth praise a man can, in any kingdom, prosper!"†   (source)
  • The city was growing and prospering; there were plans for a new boulevard just north of the street, and it seemed as if Brewster Place was to become part of the main artery of the town.†   (source)
  • I lived, in fact, on the most prosperous farm in a prospering district.†   (source)
  • There was a harbor nearby, but it was small and not well protected during the summer windstorms, so the tiny town on its shore had never prospered.†   (source)
  • Prosper!†   (source)
  • It is impossible for one country to prosper in the midst of a starving world.†   (source)
  • As they prospered, the proprietors of these plantations gave the "r"-less speech a prestige and social cachet, often reinforced by the sons they sent to schools in England.†   (source)
  • I saw, I touched, I wooed, rarely was the answer No. The honour of my place, the veneration I Received in the eye of man or woman Prospered my suit and Played havoc with my sleeping hours.†   (source)
  • But what if you prosper?†   (source)
  • I do believe that those of us who have prospered should view our good fortune not as an indication of personal merit or entitlement, but as an obligation to recognize the needs of others.†   (source)
  • While the inhabitants of Rowan are free to live and prosper, its borders are hereby closed.†   (source)
  • He was confident that the Confederacy would win this "second War for American Independence" because "Tyranny cannot prosper in the nineteenth century" against "a people fighting for their liberties."†   (source)
  • The other confederacies would do anything to decrease her importance; they would not help her prosper.†   (source)
  • We cannot prosper under such conditions!†   (source)
  • Although we reestablished our business relationship with Walmart a few years later, Duck Commander was able to survive and prosper during the years in which we didn't do business with the world's biggest retailer.†   (source)
  • Artisans prospered; farmers butchered their animals and lived as well as the educated classes in Beijing and Shanghai — usually with better housing.†   (source)
  • He was the old man's favourite and he prosper right from the start.†   (source)
  • "FOR I KNOW THE PLANS I HAVE FOR YOU," DECLARES THE LORD, "PLANS TO PROSPER YOU AND NOT TO HARM YOU, PLANS TO GIVE YOU HOPE AND A FUTURE." — JEREMIAH 29:11†   (source)
  • Even as they stood there, Ralph suspected him of secretly prospering.†   (source)
  • The paper had prospered.†   (source)
  • Bernard Lapidus, according to Mr. Field as he fondled his Chivas Regal, had prospered through the Depression years of the thirties manufacturing embossed plastic ashtrays.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was because Tom, living in such splendor with his indoor bathroom and his Essex, had escaped Morrisonville and prospered.†   (source)
  • There was an officer—his name was Prosper: I knew him.†   (source)
  • How are you and how do you prosper?†   (source)
  • Water wants to join water, youth wants to join youth, your son is not in the place where he can prosper.†   (source)
  • "May you prosper too," I whispered, hardly able to speak, for his words had left me defenceless.†   (source)
  • With other Southerners, he believed that the geographyand climate of the Western country made it unlikely that slavery could ever prosper in many of the territories that were seeking to become states, and that only in the Southwest could they hope to balance the surging tide of free Western states by securing new slave states and Senators from the lands seized from Mexico.†   (source)
  • With rewards and penalties-so much wickedness purchases so much worldly prospering— (Rises.†   (source)
  • Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.†   (source)
  • Martians prosper in near vacuum, the rock lizards of Luna do not breathe at all.†   (source)
  • He alone endured and prospered, matching the husky in strength, savagery, and cunning.   (source)
    prospered = did well
  • But you may prosper, for all that: there is no just God that governs the earth righteously, but a God of lies, that bears witness against the innocent.   (source)
    prosper = do well
  • Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper.†   (source)
  • As their firm prospered, the character of each partner began to emerge and clarify.†   (source)
  • What we truly need now is time to grow and prosper, to spread our force over more land.†   (source)
  • Yet even as her dragons prospered, her khalasar withered and died.†   (source)
  • Because you can survive and endure and prosper if they let you.†   (source)
  • Business was good in Massachusetts in the calm of 1772 and Adams prospered once again.†   (source)
  • Good men who pledged me their swords and prospered greatly by that service.†   (source)
  • Because he prosper he is two-faced, he won't speak against white people.†   (source)
  • We can all grow and prosper together, if we pool our efforts.†   (source)
  • Havoc, blood, and fury are her children, and she would see them prosper.†   (source)
  • May heaven prosper the newborn republic.†   (source)
  • What, then, does Roran Garrowsson bring to this marriage, that both he and his wife may prosper?†   (source)
  • And it flourishes, it prospers, on decline.†   (source)
  • One way or another this government must be stable if Eddis is to prosper.†   (source)
  • What if we couldn't hunt, prosper, be happy, and have such a good family?†   (source)
  • We have ceased burdening the weak with our ambition and have left them free to prosper without us.†   (source)
  • There is nothing to try men's souls…… And I say, God speed the plough, and prosper stone wall.†   (source)
  • Because you were unable to prosper by seeking destruction?†   (source)
  • All we have to do is just equalize the sacrifice-then everybody will recover and prosper.†   (source)
  • Luke said, "My question is, Why do sinners' ways prosper?"†   (source)
  • After the lumber business began to prosper—Easy Street.†   (source)
  • These were my stupidities: I thought the good are destroyed while the evil survive and prosper.†   (source)
  • But I wasn't expecting Prosper, and he didn't look too happy.†   (source)
  • I will keep Prosper busy at the airport.†   (source)
  • If they remember and ask you about it, tell them to ask Prosper.†   (source)
  • He must have spent some bad days after reporting me to Prosper.†   (source)
  • I don't know how much Prosper and the others wanted from you.†   (source)
  • But even so, officials like Prosper had only recently begun to talk in hundreds.†   (source)
  • It's bad for Prosper, bad for the man they gave your shop to, bad for everybody.†   (source)
  • Prosper delivered me to the people in the front office of the secretariat.†   (source)
  • So he put a good front on it, and said it was a new start in life, and it was generous of my Uncle Roy, and he would regard the passage money as a loan and would pay it back as soon as he began to prosper; and Uncle Roy pretended to believe him.†   (source)
  • All he was, he owed Jon Arryn, but when the widow fled to the Eyrie with her household, he stayed in King's Landing and prospered.†   (source)
  • She said it was the custom for young girls in this country to hire themselves out, in order to earn the money for their dowries; and then they would marry, and if their husbands prospered they would soon be hiring their own servants in their turn, at the very least a maid-of-all-work; and that one day I would be the mistress of a tidy farmhouse, and independent, and I would look back on my trials and tribulations at the hands of Mrs. Honey as a fine joke.†   (source)
  • Entire volumes are devoted to the phenomenon of "resilient children"—kids who prosper despite an unstable home because they have the social support of a loving adult.†   (source)
  • I think it's for every person who is feeling down or defeated or a little lost in life, perhaps angry or frustrated by what's going on: "For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."†   (source)
  • Harold didn't have as much land as my father, but he farmed it efficiently, and had prospered for as many years as my father had.†   (source)
  • For years, it was right, and we prospered and we got along and we did the way we knew we should be doing, and sure there were little crosses to bear, but it was right.†   (source)
  • And didn't it always turn out with these conversations that the fact that we were prospering, getting along, or at least feeling our life strong within our flesh proved that everything that had happened had created the present moment, was good enough, was worth it?†   (source)
  • Thus all shall prosper.†   (source)
  • What Nasuada did with lace taught me that there is a great deal of opportunity for a person to prosper in war.†   (source)
  • "I have spent many days watching them," Drizzt explained, wondering what line of thought the barbarian was drawing, "learning their ways and tricks for prospering in such an unwelcoming land."†   (source)
  • If [secession] can prosper under such auspices surely the downfall of civilization like that which devastated Rome has returned to dessolate the world.†   (source)
  • Of course, I survived and prospered.†   (source)
  • While Soweto had grown, and in some places prospered, the overwhelming majority of the people remained dreadfully poor, without electricity or running water, eking out an existence that was shameful in a nation as wealthy as South Africa.†   (source)
  • He considered military men unprincipled loafers, ambitious plotters, experts in facing down civilians in order to prosper during times of disorder.†   (source)
  • Row hard, and you shall prosper.†   (source)
  • Of course, he had prospered in the horse business, mainly because of the Army trade; he could afford to build her a house.†   (source)
  • Almost invariably around the globe, countries and companies that have deployed women according to their talents have prospered.†   (source)
  • But on the ridge where Tom was now, his father had smiled at what he saw about him and known for the first time that his family could survive in this place and even might prosper.†   (source)
  • The warren prospered and so, in the fullness of time, did the new warren on the Belt, half Watership and half Efrafan—the warren that Hazel had first envisaged on that terrible evening when he set out alone to face General Woundwort and try to save his friends against all odds.†   (source)
  • Prosper!†   (source)
  • Our family has prospered in America.†   (source)
  • I married and had children, and with work and God's will I prospered, so that I am able today to enjoy my children, my grandchildren, my orchards and my gardens in peace and comfort.†   (source)
  • And what does Katrina Ismirasdaughter bring to this marriage, that both she and her husband may prosper?†   (source)
  • Bruno Crespi, who was married to Amparo Mos. cote, and whose shop of toys and musical instruments continued to prosper, built a theater which Spanish companies included in their Itineraries.†   (source)
  • More broadly, it's generally accepted that one of the reasons East Asia has prospered in recent decades is that it educates females and incorporates them into the labor force, in a way that has not been true of India or Africa.†   (source)
  • Despite the fading of memories and technologies, Rowan managed to prosper like a great city of the Renaissance rather than some Dark Ages backwater.†   (source)
  • Some Tutsis prospered economically.†   (source)
  • It is her duty to ensure that the families of our clan pay their agreed-upon tithes to Bregan Hold, that our herds are driven to the proper fields at the proper times, that our stocks of feed and grain do not fall too low, that the women of the Ingeitum weave enough fabric, that our warriors are well equipped, that our smiths always have ore to smelt into iron, and in short, that our clan is well managed and will prosper and thrive.†   (source)
  • May it thrive and prosper and flourish and from this fountain may there issue streams, which shall gladden all the cities and towns in North America, forever.†   (source)
  • He had planned to return to his pariah after the wedding, but he was appalled at the hardness of the inhabitants of Macondo, who were prospering in the midst of scandal, subject to the natural law, without baptizing their children or sanctifying their festivals.†   (source)
  • The last thing Max needed was for word to get out that the farmhouse was prospering under the protection of a mysterious human from across the sea.†   (source)
  • "Sir, you and the young lady have my consent to arrange your plans according to your own judgment," Adams wrote, "and I pray God to bless and prosper you both whether together or asunder."†   (source)
  • Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.†   (source)
  • Happily, America was prospering, commerce and agriculture both flourishing, and there was increasing confidence everywhere.†   (source)
  • Feeling her way along through the empty bedrooms she perceived the continuous rumble of the termites as they carved the wood, the snipping of the moths in the clothes closets, and the devastating noise of the enormous red ants that had prospered during the deluge and were undermining the foundations of the house.†   (source)
  • At one point, earlier in the century, approximately half the tonnage of New England shipping had been in transporting slaves, and the port of Boston prospered from the trade.†   (source)
  • Like the United States, the Dutch Republic was born of war, and for more than a century had survived and prospered between two of the great, interminably warring powers of Europe, France and England.†   (source)
  • He was "under full sail," prospering at last, and in the Adams tradition, he began buying more land, seldom more than five or ten acres of salt marsh or woodland at a time, but steadily, year after year.†   (source)
  • Nothing prospers but the soul.†   (source)
  • And the Warden looking from his window was glad in heart. for he was a healer. and his care was lightened; and certain it was that, heavy as was the dread and foreboding of those days upon the hearts of men, still these two of his charges prospered and grew daily in strength.†   (source)
  • Men prosper on an oxygen planet close enough to a G-type star for the weather to cycle around the freezing point of water…. that is to say, on Earth.†   (source)
  • For one thing, although the publishing house—which had prospered largely through textbooks and industrial manuals and dozens of technical journals in fields as varied and arcane as pig husbandry and mortuary science and extruded plastics—did publish novels and nonfiction as a sideline, thereby requiring the labor of junior aestheticians like myself, its list of authors would scarcely capture the attention of anyone seriously concerned with literature.†   (source)
  • Then an idea seemed to strike him and he said shrewdly: "Yet I will myself take you there, and if you prosper you can pay me."†   (source)
  • Confounding the curses that came his way-and there were many, for his usury was harsh beyond necessity-he continued to prosper, squeezing the life from those hapless creatures who were driven to borrow from him, and gaining his strength from their weakness.†   (source)
  • Listen: We see people that are lucky and that live their whole lives in the shelter of Law and Order and the whole community looks up to them, and they work like any decent person and they start their family and buy a house pretty soon and they mature and prosper before Man and God, and one of these days they die and we go to their funeral, and we all say, 'Rest in peace, Sam,' or Henry, or whatever the case may be.†   (source)
  • May you prosper.†   (source)
  • It had never belonged to us, we had never prospered to the extent where we could buy, and Nathan, himself the son of a landless man, had inherited nothing.†   (source)
  • Prosper came for me on Monday morning.†   (source)
  • I put the phone down, went to the bathroom, pulled the lavatory chain, and went out to see the round-faced Prosper coming up alone, smiling.†   (source)
  • The face came up, smiling, and I retreated before it, and this was how, not saying anything, we moved down the passage before I turned and led Prosper into the white sitting room.†   (source)
  • Prosper knew it was outrageous.†   (source)
  • I packed a few things into a canvas holdall and Prosper drove me in the back of his Land-Rover through the brightly coloured town to police headquarters.†   (source)
  • And it does not prosper, that sort of love.†   (source)
  • One would have said that he abandoned a venture when it threatened to prosper.†   (source)
  • Let others prosper—that is what he thinks.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Merriwether and Rene were prospering and now had opened a bakery downtown.†   (source)
  • After that, all of a sudden, things began to pick up and prosper for Jabez Stone.†   (source)
  • He had good enough land, but it didn't prosper him; he had a decent wife and children, but the more children he had, the less there was to feed them.†   (source)
  • The hock-shop prospered on the weekly interest money and the suit benefited by being brushed and hung away in camphor where the moths couldn't get at it.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless the bourgeoisie prospers.†   (source)
  • James and Andrew, who had begun by hauling goods in covered wagons from Savannah to Georgia's inland towns, had prospered into a store of their own, and Gerald prospered with them.†   (source)
  • So have all men who have prospered.†   (source)
  • In the new clinic, with a staff of five nurses and three on-the-job trainees, and working himself without pause six days a week from eighty-thirty in the morning till six in the evening, he continued to prosper.†   (source)
  • For two years he operated his plantation, read the Bible, prayed, and, strangely enough, prospered greatly, almost as though against his will.†   (source)
  • The Cretan empire had greatly prospered under the sensible jurisdiction of this celebrated lawgiver and model of public virtue.†   (source)
  • As for Cottard, he was prospering, making money hand over fist in small, somewhat shady transactions.†   (source)
  • The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world—no matter how his affairs may seem to prosper.†   (source)
  • Now the anger that arose in Wang Lung's heart was an anger he had not known in all his life before, although as things had prospered with him and as men came to call him rich, he had lost his early timidity of a country fellow, and had grown full of small sudden angers, and he was proud even in the town.†   (source)
  • She had not been sustained through privations, the sickening duties of nursing, the fears of the siege and the hunger of the last few months by the fanatic glow which made all these things endurable to others, if only the Cause prospered.†   (source)
  • Gerald knew that northward beyond that stream the land was still held by the Cherokees, so it was with amazement that he heard the stranger jeer at suggestions of trouble with the Indians and narrate how thriving towns were growing up and plantations prospering in the new country.†   (source)
  • IV For the first three years after John Bergson's death, the affairs of his family prospered.†   (source)
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