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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

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

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; Flourished again; Brain stood apart, Steel-armoured, dark and cold.

From Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library by Burt, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Birch woods crowned the summits, but down the slope of the hillsides Flourished the golden corn, and man-high was waving the rye-field.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth