All 5 Uses of
prosperous
in
In Cold Blood
- Unless you include, as one must, the Holcomb School, a good-looking establishment, which reveals a circumstance that the appearance of the community otherwise camouflages: that the parents who send their children to this modern and ably staffed "consolidated" school-the grades go from kindergarten through senior high, and a fleet of buses transport the students, of which there are usually around three hundred and sixty, from as far as sixteen miles away-are, in general, a prosperous people.†
Chpt 1
- The only daughter of a prosperous wheat grower named Fox, the adored sister of three older brothers, she had not been spoiled but spared, led to suppose that life was a sequence of agreeable events-Kansas autumns, California summers, a round of teacup gifts.†
Chpt 1
- Prosperous.†
Chpt 2 *
- Mr. Bell was the first prosperous-seeming solitary traveler to offer them a lift.†
Chpt 3
- The elder Andrews was a prosperous farmer; he had not much money in the bank, but he owned land valued at approximately two hundred thousand dollars.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
successful or good -- especially with regard to finances or wealth