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Our coalition goes on thrivingly; but at the expense of the old Court, who are all discontented, and are likely soon to show their resentment.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter

Ornamental trees—the broadleafed horse-chestnut, the elm so lofty and bending, the graceful but infrequent willow, and others whereof I know not the names—grow thrivingly among brick and stone.

From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Never before had the art of poetry and criticism flourished so thrivingly and displayed a so generally high order as among the Arabs in the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert

Ornamental trees—the broad-leafed horse-chestnut, the elm so lofty and bending, the graceful but infrequent willow, and others whereof I know not the names—grow thrivingly among brick and stone.

From Sights from a Steeple (From "Twice Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

And in the present case I have laid the child at another man's door, and will never own him—if he doesn't grow up more thrivingly than I hope for.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund