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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

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

Being possessed of some money, he resolved to abandon his evil courses, and set up a greengrocer’s shop in the Rue Rambuteau, which went on thrivingly for some time.

From Dumas' Paris by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)