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Its arguments for tolerance and fair play, as spoken flourishingly by Actor Watson, are overwrought and sometimes speciously reasoned.

From Time Magazine Archive

We were its leaders and exponents, we were the thing it most flourishingly produced.

From Tono Bungay by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Everything went flourishingly; to be sure, there were more ladies than gentlemen, which required much watching and managing on Bea's part, that no lady should suffer a dearth of masculine attention.

From Six Girls A Home Story by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)

He sat with the pen perched flourishingly at the end of his fingers, suspended in the serious and artistic business of filling in a form.

From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Nay, not content with giving him the goods, many of the poor demented creatures actually paraded their folly at their doors in new deal packing-cases, flourishingly directed 'to sir harry scattercash, bart., nonsuch house, &c.

From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Surtees, Robert Smith