All 6 Uses of
flourish
in
The Mill on the Floss
- But I should like Tom to be a bit of a scholard, so as he might be up to the tricks o' these fellows as talk fine and write with a flourish.†
Chpt 1.2
- There are certain animals to which tenacity of position is a law of life,—they can never flourish again, after a single wrench: and there are certain human beings to whom predominance is a law of life,—they can only sustain humiliation so long as they can refuse to believe in it, and, in their own conception, predominate still.†
Chpt 3.1
- But at last there was a change; his uncle took a pen and wrote something with a flourish at the end.†
Chpt 3.5 *
- Their theory of life had its core of soundness, as all theories must have on which decent and prosperous families have been reared and have flourished; but it had the very slightest tincture of theology.†
Chpt 4.1
- Then, the pity of it, that a mind like hers should be withering in its very youth, like a young forest-tree, for want of the light and space it was formed to flourish in!†
Chpt 5.1
- For Tom had never desired success in this field of enterprise; and for getting a fine flourishing growth of stupidity there is nothing like pouring out on a mind a good amount of subjects in which it feels no interest.†
Chpt 5.2
Definition:
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(flourish as in: the business is flourishing) to thrive (grow or develop well)