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"You seem to have thriven on it," said the Doctor.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

Nor was it strange that Portuguese seamanship should at first have thriven upon naval warfare with Mussulmans.

From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John

The luscious growth needs a good deal of fertilizing and care the year round, and generations of these simple folk have thriven upon it since the middle of the seventeenth century.

From Down Under With the Prince by Duncan, Sara Jeannette

Without the generous patronage of such patrons as the Earl of Southampton or Lord Brooke, how could the young actor have thriven?

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

They seem not to have thriven on city air.”

From In Wild Rose Time by Douglas, Amanda M.