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Flourished on a light training regime and played seven seasons for Villa, winning the League Cup twice, and in two World Cups for the Republic of Ireland.

From The Guardian • Oct. 18, 2010

Flourished again: Brain stood apart,  Steel-armored, dark and cold.

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Lanier, Sidney

And men say this dream came true, For he walking in the dew Turned aside while yet was red On the highest mountain head, Looking how the wheat he set Flourished.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean

Flourished the trumpets: entered Heart,  A youth in crimson and gold.

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Lanier, Sidney

But Muriel did not send the picture back; She kept it; while her beauty and her babe Flourished together, and in health and peace She lived.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean