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to do well or to grow stronger

prospering = doing well

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.
Evelyn Waugh -- Brideshead Revisited

prospering = having success

prosper = do well

Savannah emerged from the war impoverished, but it recovered within a few years and prospered once again.
John Berendt -- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

prospered = did well

My relatives worked hard all the time but never seemed to prosper.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy

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.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

prospered = done well

They prospered; they had more daughters who joined them in peace; it was the beginning of wisdom.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game

prospered = did well

Nothing prospered but the flies who blackened their lord and made the spilt guts look like a heap of glistening coal.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

prospered = did well

  My lord and lady, it is now our time,
  That have stood by and seen our wishes prosper,
  To cry, good joy.
William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice

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.
George Orwell -- Animal Farm

prospering = doing well

"Once he got into the university environment, I thought he would prosper, I really did!" his brother Mark says.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers

prosper = do well

prospering = doing 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.
George Eliot -- Silas Marner

prosper = do well

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.
Norton Juster -- The Phantom Tollbooth

prosper = do well

As the years passed and his coal company prospered, Mr. Carter had concrete sidewalks poured, the streets paved, and the town fenced to keep cows from roaming the streets.
Homer Hickam -- October Sky

prospered = did well

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.
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild

prosper = do well

...Okonkwo knew that he would have prospered even more in Umuofia, in the land of his fathers where men were bold and warlike.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

prospered = done well

prospered = did well

Today I heard someone say that the monster is a gift from the gods to help us prosper.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

prosper = do well

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