Example Sentences

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The cattle had thriven and were doing well, and a large field of Indian corn had been harvested for the use of the Kaffirs.

From The Young Colonists A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars by Henty, G.A.

It had thriven because it formed a convenient meeting place for Scotch drovers and cattle rearers with the buyers from the big Midland towns, and even from London.

From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

She loathed the very roundness of her limbs, and the richness of her beauty, because both had thriven on the kindness of her mother's arch enemy.

From Silent Struggles by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

The fix was becoming unquestionably awkward, and our mirth, which had thriven wonderfully on the absurdity of our position, was passing over to what old ladies call the wrong side of our mouths.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

The notion is a last and wild expedient of despair, proposing to content itself with the uttermost abasement, if only the demons might still haunt the region where they had thriven so well.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.