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And away she spun Belleplain had not thriven, or to be more exact, it had had a rise and fall; and as the rise had been considerable, so the fall was something worth chronicling.— A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen
That you have thriven, I know, and you must teach me the way Elfride stood in the background.— A Pair of Blue Eyes
His companion, younger and more vivacious, was distinguished by a goodly and well-thriven hump, and by that fulness and projection of the chest which usually characterise this species of deformity.— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
Honest American industry has always thriven, when it has thriven at all, on freedom; it has never thriven on monopoly.— The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People
But while co-operative distribution has thriven, the success of co-operative workshops and mills has hitherto been extremely slow.— Problems of Poverty

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