Example Sentences

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Her life, begun not unprosperously, had come down to this—to a mean prison and a long, ignoble bondage.

From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace

But though rich in domestic comforts, all the rest of Job's affairs, for a long time, went on unprosperously.

From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various

No, but because he fancies that, for want of acquiring his freedom, he has hitherto lived under restraint and unprosperously.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)