thrive

But even before this celebrity benediction, Brooklyn was thriving in the City of Lights.

It is as thriving an industry (save the mark) as any in the world.

Two thriving churches have grown up, and very recently the principal merchants have agreed to close their houses on the Sabbath.

You know, may be, the big factory in the thriving town of Longford—the one with a tall chimbly?

Agriculture flourishes; the cultivated fields look well, and the gardens abound with thriving vegetables and fruit-trees.

The town of Leeds on the banks of the Rappahannock River was a thriving center of trade and shipping in colonial days.