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  • We are not sure which or whose "prosperities" he is talking about, housing

    Signs of the Times 2009

  • I find it haunting to think of him, a boy not yet old enough to shave, on his walk through the pre-dawn streets of his town, perhaps cold, certainly alone, past the chapels and the pawn shops, to that house of lost prosperities and cracked old plaster, where he would let himself in, the first to arrive, and build and light a fire against the damp.

    Joseph O'Connor: 'It was a voice that opened worlds' 2010

  • If he would prosper, he must train with the majority; in matters of large moment, like politics and religion, he must think and feel with the bulk of his neighbors, or suffer damage to his social standing and his business prosperities.

    One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

  • Americans will lose our prosperities, our freedoms, our mobility, and (if we are really unlucky) our lives.

    Sound Politics: "Peak Oil" Despair Versus Energy Innovation 2007

  • The Secret has given me a guideline in finding the crucial key to open the real secrets which lie in my heart, that will allow an abundance of prosperities to flow in.

    The Secret® to Teen Power Paul Harrington 2009

  • Know, O King, that Prince Ardashir hath acquainted his father with some of the favours and kindnesses thou hast done him, wherefore he thanketh thee and sendeth thee in company of thy servant who standeth before thee, a present, saluting thee and wishing thee especial blessings and prosperities.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • My best of wishes for your merry Christmases and your happy New Years, your long lives and your true prosperities.

    Doctor Marigold 2007

  • This question: why evil men often prosper; and good men suffer adversity, has been much disputed by the ancient, and is the same with this of ours: by what right God dispenseth the prosperities and adversities of this life; and is of that difficulty, as it hath shaken the faith, not only of the vulgar, but of philosophers and, which is more, of the saints, concerning the Divine Providence.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Non Homesteaded prosperities with five or more code enforcement cases with in a three year period and more than $200,000.00 in fines.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • My best of wishes for your merry Christmases and your happy New Years, your long lives and your true prosperities.

    Doctor Marigold 2007

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