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“There is also the problem why, if no such person existed, anyone should have invented him, and why so many people should have believed the story to the extent that a religion in his name flourished so quickly.”
“Adam Levy remembers that, as the label flourished, his father bemoaned the Robinsons’ “uncontrollable” spending.”
“(By contrast, the U.S. economy flourished from the mid-1980s until 2008 in part because investors and businesses were confident that the Fed would keep the nation on a steady growth path.)”
“Jonah, who was in transports of joy when the gourd flourished, is in pangs of grief when the gourd has withered.”
“Agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, again flourished under the protection of the laws; and the curioe, or civil corporations, were again filled with useful and respectable members: the youth were no longer apprehensive of marriage; and married persons were no longer apprehensive of posterity: the public and private festivals were celebrated with customary pomp; and the frequent and secure intercourse of the provinces displayed the image of national prosperity.”
“Note 259: Compare with Tenzer, "Iconography," 209: "Chess was a game of the courts that flourished from the 12th through the 15th centuries.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“The Hawaiian culture which greatly valued the spoken word flourished in isolation for centuries.”
“Mr. Justice Newton, "it may fairly be presumed that a second judge of the name flourished in this reign.”
“They both held the show down for the first two seasons during which the purple and gold lettering with often misspelled artist and song titles flourished and we saw the newest and best videos in Rap and Hip Hop.”
“Therefore thanks to Boniface, to his men and women monks -- the women too had a very important part in this work of evangelization -- this human culture also flourished, which is inseparable from the faith and reveals its beauty.”
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Former ghosts
Ghost words that I've adopted because the original listers abandoned them. Yarb has more in his Adoption agency, and many orphlings are tagged as ghosted, ghost phrases, misspellings, or typos.
orphling, listkeeper, grandmotherly, scroogish, theocon, frownie, afternoons, loggin, supercalliwhat, avunculate, kokako, stygimolochs and 379 more...
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bilby De-flourished. Mar 13, 2009