Vocabulary Word
Word: prosper
Definition: become successful (esp. financially); thrive; grow well; Ex. children prospering under his care
Definition: become successful (esp. financially); thrive; grow well; Ex. children prospering under his care
Sentences Containing 'prosper'
If your suit should prosper, if Lucie should love you, you shall tell me on your marriage morning.
And wot little a man did get, would never prosper with him, Mr. Lorry.
interposed Renee,``I trust your wishes will not prosper, and that Providence will only permit petty offenders, poor debtors, and miserable cheats to fall into M. de Villefort's hands, then I shall be contented.''
``Well, there, sir, is another proof that good people are never rewarded on this earth, and that none but the wicked prosper.
As the strongest bodies only can live and enjoy health under an unwholesome regimen, so the nations only, that in every sort of industry have the greatest natural and acquired advantages, can subsist and prosper under such taxes.
Holland is the country in Europe in which they abound most, and which, from peculiar circumstances, continues to prosper, not by means of them, as has been most absurdly supposed, but in spite of them.
Mr Quesnai, who was himself a physician, and a very speculative physician, seems to have entertained a notion of the same kind concerning the political body, and to have imagined that it would thrive and prosper only under a certain precise regimen, the exact regimen of perfect liberty and perfect justice.
If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.
Whose way (to speed and prosper in it) must be through a way, that is not easily comprehended.
Dr. Prosper Lucas' treatise, in two large volumes, is the fullest and the best on this subject.
On the whole, I entirely agree with Dr. Prosper Lucas, who, after arranging an enormous body of facts with respect to animals, comes to the conclusion that the laws of resemblance of the child to its parents are the same, whether the two parents differ little or much from each other, namely, in the union of individuals of the same variety, or of different varieties, or of distinct species.
One bore by way of address, Letter for my lady the Duchess So-and-so, of I don't know where; and the other To my husband Sancho Panza, governor of the island of Barataria, whom God prosper longer than me.
Theer's been kiender a blessing fell upon us,' said Mr. Peggotty, reverentially inclining his head, 'and we've done nowt but prosper.
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