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Definition of Thriven
1. thrive [v] - See also: thrive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thriven
Literary usage of Thriven
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1897)
"AT no other time in the world's history has the business of piracy thriven so
greatly as in the seventeenth century and the first part of the eighteenth. ..."
2. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1897)
"AT no other time in the world's history has the business of piracy thriven so
greatly as in the seventeenth century and the first part of the eighteenth. ..."
3. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"XVI THE GOLDEN AGE OF PIRATES orJ Pompey A"1 no other time in the world's history
has the business of piracy thriven so greatly as in the seventeenth ..."
4. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"Id. The thriven calves in meads their food forsake, And render their sweet souls
before the plenteous rack. Id. Virgil. Seldom a thriving man turns his land ..."
5. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1884)
"E. Leucoxylon has, next to E. rostrata, thriven best about Lucknow (in India)
among the species tried there for forest culture. E. sideroxylon is a synonym. ..."
6. Therapeutic Gazette (1886)
"... is not only healthy but has well thriven, and the manager of the ranche told
us that only on three days had he found an overcoat necessary in riding. ..."
7. Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri by Missouri State Horticultural Society (1894)
"... Until the spring floods buried all their bones ; Great cities that had thriven
wondrously Before the source of thrift was swept away, Faded and perished ..."
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