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You must be reasonable; the money market is in a sadly unflourishing condition at present.”

From Louis' School Days A Story for Boys by May, E. J. (Edith J.)

Wars and revolutions, producing an unflourishing state of trade and agriculture, have discouraged Spaniards, during the last thirty or forty years, from putting their children to trades or professions.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various