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In England, gorillas have recently lived and thriven amazingly because the keepers now put plate glass between them and the staring crowds.

From Time Magazine Archive

From that time the monastery founded by St. Pirmin had thriven and flourished; a hot-bed of monastic erudition, of considerable repute, in German lands.

From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von

It had not been an especially fine specimen, but something about the situation and the soil had exactly suited it, and it had thriven miraculously.

From Home Fires in France by Canfield, Dorothy

All the plants which had been placed in the ground had thriven, and would give a good return.

From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Greeley, Horace

He that hath thriven may lie till seven.

From Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Preston, Thomas