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  • The garden flourishes in the spring.
    flourishes = grows or develops well
  • The business flourished from day one.
    flourished = grew or developed well
  • My art career is going to flourish in Phoenix.   (source)
    flourish = thrive (grow or develop well)
  • The men who had befriended Louie in captivity found their way back into civilian life. Some flourished; some struggled for the rest of their lives.   (source)
    flourished = thrived
  • A century after Franklin's death, the eminent explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson pointed out that the English explorer had never taken the trouble to learn the survival skills practiced by the Indians and the Eskimos, peoples who had managed to flourish "for generations, bringing up their children and taking care of their aged" in the same harsh country that killed Franklin.   (source)
    flourish = thrive (grow or develop well)
  • I asked how my father's mood waxed, and what the names of my nieces and nephews were, and what empires flourished new in the world.   (source)
    flourished = thrived (grew or developed well)
  • many flourishing potted plants   (source)
    flourishing = thriving (growing well)
  • He lived and flourished in such moments.   (source)
    flourished = thrived
  • The over-zealous converts who had smarted under Mr. Brown's restraining hand now flourished in full favour.   (source)
    flourished = thrived (did well)
  • Everywhere they went, they saw signs urging Wonderlanders to attend meetings of the numberless Black Imagination societies that now flourished in every banqueting hall, while the few White Imagination societies were forced to gather in stealth and secret.   (source)
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  • Life was rich, full, and flourishing.   (source)
    flourishing = growing or developing well
  • Great place for young life to flourish.   (source)
    flourish = grow or develop well
  • It was the type that seemed to flourish best under the dominion of the Party.   (source)
    flourish = thrive (grow or develop well)
  • The vampire live on, and cannot die by mere passing of the time, he can flourish when that he can fatten on the blood of the living.   (source)
  • He laughed a little the other day, and said I seemed to be flourishing in spite of my wall-paper.   (source)
    flourishing = growing or developing well
  • Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and re-planted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil.   (source)
    flourish = thrive (grow or develop well)
  • One of his most intimate friends was a merchant who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty.   (source)
    flourishing = thriving or prospering
  • Eventually, Mansfield was untied and taken to a civilian prison, where he flourished.   (source)
    flourished = thrived
  • That night we camped on the shore of a flourishing green land.   (source)
    flourishing = thriving (growing well)
  • Thanks to the stealing, a black market with a remarkable diversity of goods flourished in camp.   (source)
    flourished = thrived
  • County officials say they eliminated the springs out of concern that bathers might become gravely ill from virulent microbes thought to flourish in the thermal pools.   (source)
    flourish = thrive (grow or develop well)
  • His powers of observation had served him well in a society where only the shrewdest, most opportunistic, most selfish, and least loyal to friends flourished.   (source)
    flourished = thrived (did well)
  • When time passed and the animals had evidently not starved to death, Frederick and Pilkington changed their tune and began to talk of the terrible wickedness that now flourished on Animal Farm.   (source)
    flourished = thrived
  • But he cannot flourish without this diet, he eat not as others.   (source)
    flourish = thrive (grow or develop well)
  • Who can flourish in the midst of diseases that kill off whole peoples.   (source)
  • In old Greece, in old Rome, he flourish in Germany all over, in France, in India, even in the Chermosese, and in China, so far from us in all ways, there even is he, and the peoples for him at this day.   (source)
  • In one spot you view rugged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and on the sudden turn of a promontory, flourishing vineyards with green sloping banks and a meandering river and populous towns occupy the scene.   (source)
    flourishing = thriving (growing well)
  • This creed was never taught, for instance, by the venerable pastor, John Wilson, whose beard, white as a snow-drift, was seen over Governor Bellingham's shoulders, while its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalised in the New England climate, and that purple grapes might possibly be compelled to flourish against the sunny garden-wall.   (source)
    flourish = thrive (grow well)
  • Clerval desired the intercourse of the men of genius and talent who flourished at this time, but this was with me a secondary object; I was principally occupied with the means of obtaining the information necessary for the completion of my promise and quickly availed myself of the letters of introduction that I had brought with me, addressed to the most distinguished natural philosophers.   (source)
    flourished = thrived or prospered
  • She had flourished during the period between the early days of Massachusetts and the close of the seventeenth century.   (source)
    flourished = lived
  • Would he not suddenly sink into the earth, leaving a barren and blasted spot, where, in due course of time, would be seen deadly nightshade, dogwood, henbane, and whatever else of vegetable wickedness the climate could produce, all flourishing with hideous luxuriance?   (source)
    flourishing = thriving (growing well)
  • Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.   (source)
    flourish'd = grew
  • ...to see whether the vine flourished... (6:11)   (source)
    flourished = thrived
  • otherwise a seducer flourishes, and a poor maid is undone.   (source)
    flourishes = thrives (does well)
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  • He bowed with a flourish.
  • The music ends with a flourish.   (source)
    flourish = a showy or ornamented manner
  • He arrived there with his trademark flourish, bursting through a door and shouting, "Nanda!" at a group of startled POW officers, demanding to know what they were doing.   (source)
    flourish = showy gesture
  • The heavy charms on Sydelle Pulaski's bracelet clinked and clunked as she raised a full fork and flourished it in a practiced ritual before aiming it at her open mouth.   (source)
    flourished = waved (or made a showy gesture with)
  • Seized with an immediate desire to reveal himself, Harry pulled off the cloak with a flourish.   (source)
    flourish = a showy gesture
  • I thought it must be some kind of culminating prank, the senior class leaving Devon with a flourish.   (source)
    flourish = showy gesture
  • He would return with a flourish, and regain the seven wasted years.   (source)
    flourish = showy manner
  • Mr. Kimberley flourished his cane at the silent children.   (source)
    flourished = waved (or made a showy gesture with)
  • Its voice was thin, needle-sharp and insistent; The three boys rushed forward and Jack drew his knife again with a flourish.   (source)
    flourish = showy gesture
  • Now, it plunged the book back under his arm, pressed it tight to sweating armpit, rushed out empty, with a magician's flourish!   (source)
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  • He swung his arm out with a flourish.   (source)
    flourish = a showy gesture
  • … and his correspondent signed herself with a flourish his ever Constance Culmington.   (source)
    flourish = showy gesture
  • He unpacks the embroidered handbag, and some good sausages come to light; Lewandowski takes up the knife with a flourish and saws the meat into slices.   (source)
  • the bloated curves and flourishes   (source)
    flourishes = showy gestures (ornamental flowing curves)
  • Later, the men around Montag could not say if they had really seen anything Perhaps the merest flourish of light and motion in the sky.   (source)
    flourish = show
  • He flourished the conch.   (source)
    flourished = waved (or made a showy gesture with)
  • He flourished a white calling card.   (source)
    flourished = used a wave or showy gesture to produce
  • Flourish of cornets.   (source)
    flourish = a showy gesture
  • Old Montague is come, And flourishes his blade in spite of me.   (source)
    flourishes = waves in a showy way
  • ALL:  Hail, King of Scotland!
    Flourish.   (source)
    flourish = wave or make a showy gesture
  • [Flourish. Exeunt.] (at end of Act 5 Scene 8)   (source)
  • [Flourish. Exeunt.] (at end of Act 1 Scene 4)   (source)
  • [A crowd of people in the street leading to the Capitol, among them Artemidorus and the Soothsayer. Flourish. Enter Caesar, Brutus, ..., and others.]   (source)
    flourish = fanfare played by trumpets to announce the entry or exit of royalty
  • Exeunt. flourish.   (source)
    flourish = a showy gesture
  • SCENE IV. Forres. A Room in the Palace.
    [Flourish. Enter Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox, and Attendants.]   (source)
    flourish = fanfare played by trumpets to announce the entry or exit of royalty
  • [Shout. Flourish.]   (source)
    flourish = wave or make a showy gesture
  • [Flourish and shout.]   (source)
  • Flourish. Enter, with drum and colours, Malcolm, old Siward, Ross, Lennox, Angus, Caithness, Menteith, and Soldiers.   (source)
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  • The Capitol seal is back with a final musical flourish.†   (source)
  • They bought Harry's school books in a shop called Flourish and Blotts where the shelves were stacked to the ceiling with books as large as paving stones bound in leather; books the size of postage stamps in covers of silk; books full of peculiar symbols and a few books with nothing in them at all.†   (source)
  • But then a passionate conversation breaks out amongst them, accompanied by maps and the flourish of pencils.†   (source)
  • He says: Sakiel-Norn is now a heap of stones, but once it was a flourishing centre of trade and exchange.†   (source)
  • His mother swung the door open with a flourish.†   (source)
  • With a flourish I whip our contract out of my bag.†   (source)
  • The Count turned his hand in the air in a concluding flourish.†   (source)
  • He opens the doors with a flourish and steps outside.†   (source)
  • There's a large, flourishing Jewish community there," Michael replied.†   (source)
  • He opens it with a flourish and it unfurls to the floor, unraveling down the aisle in front of him.†   (source)
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  • He stepped aside, flourishing his arm toward the attractive couple behind them.†   (source)
  • The mayor spoke with a flourish.†   (source)
  • And with each "oomp," he would do a wild, whole-body flourish with his rag.†   (source)
  • Some had seven or eight and didn't understand how fortunate they were, how blessed that their children had flourished in their wombs, lived to squirm in their arms and take the milk from their breasts.†   (source)
  • There is nothing more disappointing than creating a new border only to see it fail to flourish, or to watch a row of beautiful alliums destroyed overnight by some slimy culprit.†   (source)
  • It's a rare plant called drapeweed that flourishes in thin soil."†   (source)
  • But then, with a dramatic flourish, he whipped off the tie and draped it around my neck.†   (source)
  • Joe finished his medley with a flourish.†   (source)
  • They had flourished as the dominant life form on the planet in the Jurassic, 190 million years ago.†   (source)
  • Both flourished well enough, compared to what they would have done back in England.†   (source)
  • The name of the store, "Jerrold's," was painted in vivid-red letters across the window—in a flourishing, handwritten style.†   (source)
  • I swing open the door with a flourish.†   (source)
  • Bastian says, and flourishes his fat hand.†   (source)
  • And, eventually, man will nourish your sands, where the game will once again flourish.†   (source)
  • His writing was beautiful and powerful, and the lively and vigorous flourishes in his calligraphy awed us.†   (source)
  • The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.†   (source)
  • One of his pockets was stuffed with a great white kerchief on which he wiped his palm before sweeping his hand over the chosen chess piece with great flourish.†   (source)
  • Richard pulls open the double doors to the bar, throws his hands into the air with a flourish, and ushers Lil and Em, giggling and whispering, inside.†   (source)
  • And then she swept offstage in a flourish, heading into the house to retrieve her clothes.†   (source)
  • The Baudelaire orphans followed Uncle Monty to the cloth-covered cage, and with a flourish—the word "flourish" here means "a sweeping gesture, often used to show off"—he swooped the cloth off the cage.†   (source)
  • The margins of her parents' letters, always a block of her mother's hasty penmanship followed by her father's flourishing, elegant hand, are frequently decorated with drawings of animals done by Ashima's father, and Ashima tapes these on the wall over Gogol's crib.†   (source)
  • They say that under those ashes every kind of life flourished, making this land the most fertile in the region.†   (source)
  • When he finishes, I bow with a grand flourish.†   (source)
  • Adri flourished her arm at Cinder, her attention once again captivated by Pearl's dress.†   (source)
  • In fact, research flourished.†   (source)
  • He says they're hoping it fades with more prayer and high school graduation, but he insists that it's only going to flourish.†   (source)
  • Enrique signed his name with a flourish.†   (source)
  • Being in Berkeley, home to many fine restaurants, I felt compelled to add a few over-the-top menu flourishes: The last item was one of Angelo's homemade wines.†   (source)
  • This seems like a place where nothing should flourish or grow, where the sun should never shine: a place on the edge, at the limit, a place completely removed from time and happiness and life.†   (source)
  • There was a huge, shrieking flourish of brass.†   (source)
  • He sat with a flourish of his cloak.†   (source)
  • In earlier times our mother did that, with a flourish.†   (source)
  • The planet is truly alive, flourishing.†   (source)
  • "It sounds like you were extremely lucky," Dr. Cullen said, smiling as he signed my chart with a flourish.†   (source)
  • Where roofleaf had flourished from time's'beginning, there was cassava.†   (source)
  • Eric Hall finished with a characteristic flourish.†   (source)
  • Anytime is a good time for Hamburger Helper àla Dave ," he said, passing his hand over the frying pan with an exaggerated flourish.†   (source)
  • In any case, once you pay attention to the name game, you pretty much know things will end badly, since daisies can't flourish in winter, and things do.†   (source)
  • I get off the bike with a flourish to show him how expert I am.†   (source)
  • With a flourish of her handkerchief and a forceful clearing of her nose, Tante Jans let us know that the moment for sentiment had passed.†   (source)
  • In a soft voice, without flourishes, he would have told the exact truth.†   (source)
  • He loved to be in that house, admiring the craftsmanship, the great care put into the most eccentric details and flourishes—a mural over the mantel, one-of-a-kind ironwork on every balcony.†   (source)
  • Mr. Caruso said, pounding away on the keyboard with a flourish.†   (source)
  • The wineries flourished for three decades; the art colony collapsed within a few months.†   (source)
  • Gangs flourish when there's a lack of social recreation, decent education or employment.†   (source)
  • The simple act of checking the time is transformed by this flourish.†   (source)
  • The weed that people call Communist Patcha (because it flourished in Kerala like Communism) smothered the more exotic plants.†   (source)
  • Sighing, she signed the note with a flourish that tore through the paper, and stuck it to the cash register.†   (source)
  • It surrounded Luke's small back garden, where the only plants flourishing seemed to be the weeds that had sprung up through the paving stones, cracking them into powdery shards.†   (source)
  • If one considers the difference between my father at such moments and a figure such as Mr Jack Neighbours even with the best of his technical flourishes, I believe one may begin to distinguish what it is that separates a 'great' butler from a merely competent one.†   (source)
  • After work, he'd sometimes bring home a small toy or a piece of candy, and he'd present them with a flourish, building a bit of drama.†   (source)
  • Anti-Semitism was flourishing long before the German invasion.†   (source)
  • "After you," he said with a mock flourish and bow.†   (source)
  • I finished with a bit of a flourish.†   (source)
  • He plays with more confidence now and becomes more animated, working the vibrato with a flourish.†   (source)
  • Such secretiveness could not flourish without misapprehensions.†   (source)
  • But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.†   (source)
  • If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete fool out of you.†   (source)
  • His garden flourished and so did his health, and he trumpeted his successes in the pages of his magazine.†   (source)
  • Ed Soames, with a flourish, stamped it.†   (source)
  • During the Renaissance, what we call anti-humanism flourished as well.†   (source)
  • The fare was a dollar, so I thought ten cents was exactly right and gave the driver my dime with a little flourish and a smile.†   (source)
  • The family that used to run the place, after arriving in the city following the Second World War, and flourishing there for three generations, had recently sold up and emigrated to Canada.†   (source)
  • All firmness, and too many flourishes.†   (source)
  • Then he plucked it out again and flourished it.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, Paul, Jr.—P. J. or Pel to his family—was flourishing.†   (source)
  • Whatever He Did Had Flourish.†   (source)
  • Not that Perry really considered it a smiling matter, for Dick, flourishing a dangerous weapon, could have played a decisive role in plans he himself was forming.†   (source)
  • Countertops and floor were honeycombed with trails of sugar left by careless tea drinkers The roaches flourished in the kitchen as well as in the bathroom.†   (source)
  • There was a flourish of light and shadow.†   (source)
  • The authorities did not regret giving permission, for once the garden began to flourish, I often provided the warders with some of my best tomatoes and onions.†   (source)
  • Both cities flourished mightily and the demons were driven back still further.†   (source)
  • So he hurriedly threw his can into the car trunk and made a stagy flourish with his hand before opening the side door.†   (source)
  • August lifts a piece of toast with flourish, smiling broadly with closed lips.†   (source)
  • That is, they smell like a virus; and they flourish in ruined habitats.†   (source)
  • More perhaps than any other refugee group in Clarkston, Liberian boys and young men were susceptible to the lure of the American gangs that flourished in the public schools and in the parking lots of the apartment complexes around town.†   (source)
  • The sax player finished with a flourish and stood up to bow.†   (source)
  • (She promenades to the radio and, with an arrogant flourish, turns off the good loud blues that is playing) Enough of this assimilationist junk!†   (source)
  • Pony called after her, flourishing the umbrella.†   (source)
  • More than anything, he wanted her to embrace life and flourish.†   (source)
  • As wartime anxiety gave way to postwar uncertainty, Klan membership flourished.†   (source)
  • He tore a sheet from the back of his journal and flourished it in front of me.†   (source)
  • The demonstration comes to an end with a flourish of applause from HALLY and WILLY) HALLY.†   (source)
  • Soupy Jones had assumed the top-hand role, once Dish left, and flourished in it.†   (source)
  • But when other villagers saw Neth's business flourishing, they opened their own shops.†   (source)
  • While visiting the barn to oversee his horses, Giannini noticed how Oriley was flourishing under Smith's care.†   (source)
  • With a great flourish and an exaggerated bow, Tom announces his arrival.†   (source)
  • Over the years, both Mary 's dance career and mine continued to flourish.†   (source)
  • With a flourish of his brightly striped Mexican serape, the waiter went to fetch it.†   (source)
  • Economic and technological competitiveness is essential, and America's economy and technology have flourished because of the rule of law and the "assets" of a free and open society.†   (source)
  • She flourished in a way, and exchanged arrogance occasionally for confidence.†   (source)
  • Cotton was king during the Valley's summer, a crop that flourished despite the lack of rain.†   (source)
  • But while that Tree flourishes she will never come down into Narnia.†   (source)
  • She ended with a farewell and the largest flourish of all—Hattie.†   (source)
  • What does it mean, anyway, to flourish?†   (source)
  • With a flourish, Gallimard directs our attention to another part of the stage.†   (source)
  • Even then I felt the absence of something I couldn't then name and it hurt me for my mother, who I instinctively knew needed it, and would, I imagined, flourish under it.†   (source)
  • "Your wish is my command," he said with an old-time flourish.†   (source)
  • It grows abundantly in Gondor, and there is richer and larger than in the North, where it is never found wild, and flourishes only in warm sheltered places like Longbottom.†   (source)
  • We grow where we are not seen, we flourish where we are not heard, the thick undergrowth of an unlikely planting.†   (source)
  • The black-market flourished.†   (source)
  • Nately gave them ninety dollars with a gallant flourish, after borrowing twenty dollars from Yossarian, thirty-five dollars from Dunbar and seventeen dollars from Hungry Joe.†   (source)
  • Macon pulled out Lena's chair with a flourish.†   (source)
  • I knew they existed; even in our nation's capital they existed and flourished.†   (source)
  • "Ivy League?" she says with a flourish.†   (source)
  • She signs with a flourish and hands the book to me.†   (source)
  • We execute a turn before the stove and arrive at the rear door, where Ghosh works the lock and shoots back the bolt with a flourish.†   (source)
  • It's why, even after 9/11, religious freedom flourishes in America.†   (source)
  • It flourished and became a great movement in Jewish life.†   (source)
  • Having flourished in my own authentically kvetchy way, I believe that we would be better off if we let everyone be themselves--positive, negative, or even somewhere in between.†   (source)
  • It was for a laugh, for a laugh, all the kids had laughed and laughed, and the droll tuba player of the old Elk's band had rendered it solo on his helical horn; with comical flourishes and doleful phrasing, "Boo boo boo booooo, Poor Robin clean"-a mock funeral dirge ….†   (source)
  • Maybe I didn't want to think that something so foul could flourish in two generations."†   (source)
  • They just lived in the hot houses with the two-inch-long palmetto bugs, almost in sight of the condos of the more prosperous Hispanics who came to Miami and flourished, leaving black people behind.†   (source)
  • "I might do a flourishing business in Paris," said Mo, smiling.†   (source)
  • We have a flourishing business.†   (source)
  • He had no liking for grand oratorical flourishes.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Mompellion called thegarden her little Eden, and 1 believe God did not mislike her claim, for all manner of flowers flourished there, far beyond what are commonly expected to grow and thrive through the hard winters on this mountainside.†   (source)
  • Only a wave of Mother's magical wand of acceptance would make my self-worth flourish.†   (source)
  • The little pots of basil she'd bought in Butte were flourishing.†   (source)
  • She combs her hair, spots a lone gray strand and plucks it with a flourish.†   (source)
  • The Tyroshi threw open the box with a flourish, and stepped back smiling.†   (source)
  • And it flourishes, it prospers, on decline.†   (source)
  • But what worried them most — and worried the people they talked to when they got back — was to see how the things which are against God's laws of nature flourish there, just as if they had a right to.†   (source)
  • Wincing, Max turned back to M. Renard, who seemed to enjoy, the crowd's attention as he gestured at the First Years with a dramatic flourish.†   (source)
  • Two resplendent cars came shooting at full speed into the parking lot and stopped with a flourish of screeching brakes.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: (Flourishing the flowers) SNAP WENT THE DRAGONS!†   (source)
  • If the first shoots of those freedoms sprang up in England, linguistically they flourished even more luxuriantly in America, where they were championed by two great writers of the nineteenth century.†   (source)
  • Then he opened the door wide, bowed to Papa with a big flourish, and said, 'Enter, sir!†   (source)
  • His arrival was greeted with full presidential courtesies—simultaneous 21-gun salutes from USS Gilmore and USS Yosemite in the harbor, and the playing of ruffles and flourishes followed by the national anthem by the Marine drum and bugle corps.†   (source)
  • Commerce had enjoyed the rituals of military drill and had flourished in the environment of an austere and congenial discipline.†   (source)
  • With a flourish Rellin pulled away the brown blanket that was covering the big box.†   (source)
  • Walls of flowers—ochre, lavender, pink—would flourish and die within a month, followed by even more exaggerated and inbred colours.†   (source)
  • All were written in a flourishing, educated hand and bore the same simple signature: "A Friend."†   (source)
  • Mick parks with an overt flourish.†   (source)
  • Grace made a flourish with her hand, queenlike.†   (source)
  • She had two green apples in each hand, which she raised above her head with a flourish.†   (source)
  • It cannot make a flourish, vary the thickness of a line, or tantalize the reader with a lapse into an indecipherable but lovely style.†   (source)
  • It was not the best era for starting a business, heaven knows, but apparently Junior flourished, first remodeling and then building from scratch various stately houses in the neighborhoods of Guilford, Roland Park, and Homeland.†   (source)
  • We would create an active commerce, extensive navigation, and a flourishing navy.†   (source)
  • Over the centuries, they had flourished and grown strong once more, attuning themselves to the ways of mysterious magics.†   (source)
  • I have grown and flourished as a man and as a man of God because of the influence of my parents, and I am forever grateful for them.†   (source)
  • With a flourish to rival the best of vaudeville performances, he unveiled the gramophone.†   (source)
  • Minor flourishes—some comrades did not have phones; some could be reached only at certain hours; some outlying warrens did not have phone service.†   (source)
  • She flourished her fan.†   (source)
  • The Yemeni's voice rose with an oratorical flourish as he concluded his statement.†   (source)
  • Grover took off his watch and presented it to him with a flourish.†   (source)
  • Yeats, however, was by no means all flourish.†   (source)
  • They all flourish and bow, raggedly.†   (source)
  • He said this last with a flourish that indicated the grandness of her attitude.†   (source)
  • Won't it be nice for both of you if he flourishes in an atmosphere of chlorine?†   (source)
  • "There!" she said, flourishing it in front of him, spreading out the title page.†   (source)
  • He was a quiet, gentle man, with a flourishing mustache, with not much to say to the women and children in his house; when he did sit down, it would be in his wooden platform swing outside, usually with his pipe and holding one of the farm kittens on his knee.†   (source)
  • Adenauer, Erhard, Reuter, and other leaders understood the practical importance of liberty--that just as truth can flourish only when the journalist is given freedom of speech, so prosperity can come about only when the farmer and businessman enjoy economic freedom.†   (source)
  • For these are the last remaining members of a race that flourished over four continents as far back in geologic time as the upper Jurassic period.†   (source)
  • The graceful flourish of his handwriting contrasted oddly with the fractured grammar and exotic spelling of his prose.†   (source)
  • He flourished.†   (source)
  • Vasudeva's smile flourished more warmly.†   (source)
  • Flourished on contention, Papa had said.†   (source)
  • The violinist and Tyshkevich flourished their bows.†   (source)
  • It grew and flourished and spread.†   (source)
  • On his refusal to do this had his life depended, and John's secret heart had flourished in its wickedness until the day his sin first overtook him.†   (source)
  • Our fathers believed that if this noble view of the rights of man was to flourish it must be rooted in democracy.†   (source)
  • Powell tore the tape out of the typewriter and presented it to the D.A. with a flourish.†   (source)
  • I must remember to place an order at Flourish and Blotts!†   (source)
  • As Harry entered Flourish and Blotts, the manager came hurrying toward him.†   (source)
  • This is the copy of Advanced Potion-Making that you purchased from Flourish and Blotts?†   (source)
  • Merlock seemed to flourish and grow every time his wares were complimented.†   (source)
  • Teabing rejoined them with a flourish, presenting several cans of Coke and a box of old crackers.†   (source)
  • She flourishes her brilliant fingernails and breaks into childlike laughter.†   (source)
  • "Cave Inimicum," Hermione finished with a skyward flourish.†   (source)
  • Lilian therefore found it all the more remarkable to discover a flourishing Jewish community there.†   (source)
  • Art and architecture, literature, music, philosophy, and science flourished as never before.†   (source)
  • Fred pulled something from inside his cloak with a flourish and laid it on one of the desks.†   (source)
  • As a final flourish, he adds a scoop of vanilla ice cream.†   (source)
  • Halfway through "Ticket to Ride," the band wound up in a brassy flourish.†   (source)
  • "I will not follow your laws so long as they permit disobedience to flourish," said Levana.†   (source)
  • He kept replaying his own exploits, tacking on little flourishes that never happened.†   (source)
  • Trip tucked his juggling stones into various pockets without so much as a flourish.†   (source)
  • I," she waved her hands with a flourish, "am the housekeeper and cook.†   (source)
  • And then with a courtly flourish, Andrey caught all four spheres and bowed at the waist.†   (source)
  • I must say, your agapanthus are flourishing.†   (source)
  • They had each signed their first names with zigzag flourishes.†   (source)
  • But as large farms flourished, the small ones struggled.†   (source)
  • Lifting the silver tops of the trays with a flourish.†   (source)
  • I dug into a pocket, and held up my link with a flourish.†   (source)
  • Eragon disengaged with a flourish, thrust, and then riposted as Murtagh parried, dancing away.†   (source)
  • When I don't take the dessert, he rises and delivers it in front of me with a grand flourish.†   (source)
  • This form of Romanticis flourished first, especially around 1800, in Germany, in the town of Jena.†   (source)
  • My dad threw aside his half-smoked Viceroy with a flourish.†   (source)
  • While they kept peace, the land flourished.†   (source)
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  • In Flourish and Blotts.   (source)
    flourish = a name
  • An hour later, they headed for Flourish and Blotts.   (source)
  • "We'll all meet at Flourish and Blotts in an hour to buy your schoolbooks," said Mrs. Weasley, setting off with Ginny.   (source)
  • When young Harry here stepped into Flourish and Blotts today, he only wanted to buy my autobiography —which I shall be happy to present him now, free of charge-   (source)
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