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Definition of Thrives
1. thrive [v] - See also: thrive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrives
Literary usage of Thrives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"It also thrives on sands. Site and elevation. The type of peach-growing business
one expects to engage in has much to do with the kind of location and site ..."
2. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing (1859)
"... abundantly seen in the markets of Philadelphia, as it thrives well in the
sandy soils of New Jersey. Coxe first described this fruit; the original tree ..."
3. A Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago by Eliza Southgate Bowne (1887)
"My little Mary1 has a wet-nurse; she is a fine, lively child, and thrives fast.
Adieu, my Dear Mother; I did not think I could have written half as much; ..."
4. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing, Charles Downing (1860)
"It is most abundantly seen in the markets of Philadelphia, as it thrives well in
the sandy soils of New Jersey. Coxe first described this fruit; ..."
5. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"... indicates some tree which thrives best in low and rather moist situations,
whereas the chestnut-tree is a tree which prefers dry and hilly pround. ..."
6. Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman by Mary Clemmer (1874)
"... Human Nature— Two " Quizzing" Ladies—Nothing Sacred to Them—An Illogical
Dame —Her "Precarious Organ"—A "Vice that thrives Amid Christian Graces "—How ..."
7. The Jonson Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597-1700 by Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams (1922)
"... and you may see how it thrives with him, for his braines have been wonderfully
blasted of late, ..."
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