Thriven

I hate to nitpick about this, but please, please, can people begin to say "thriven" and "throve"? ❋ Unknown (2009)

They have thriven well and increased with great rapidity, so that now (1869) the whole town is full of them. ❋ AYDIN (2009)

Such things as could be said for him were said, — how he had taken to industrious habits, and had thriven lawfully and reputably. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He has thriven even as I have; and he has found, as I have, that in making one friend at Court you make ten foes; but ‘Oderint dum metuant’ is no more my motto than his, ❋ Unknown (2007)

And what am I but a poor, wasted, wan-thriven tree, dug up by the roots, and flung out to waste in the highway, that man and beast may tread it under foot? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Easily the worst of the (mostly great) writers from the British Isles to have ever thriven in America (although Millar has a shot at deserving that dubious distinction, too). ❋ David Campbell (2007)

The arrangement — for it was little more — had worked satisfactorily enough; Grace had thriven, and Melbury had not repented. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Then I have a quarrel against his face, though in his person, for a well-thriven man, tolerably genteel — Not to his features so much neither; for what, as you have often observed, are features in a man? — ❋ Unknown (2006)

There did not seem to be the slightest anger against him, in that he had thriven and had left Dick behind him in such wretched poverty. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Beginning with a good inheritance, he had married a good inheritance, and had thriven exceedingly in the Marine Insurance way, and was quite satisfied. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The doctrine had at any rate thriven with the teacher, for Mr. Die had amassed a large fortune. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Trade, therefore, at Courcy, had not thriven since the railway opened: and, indeed, had any patient inquirer stood at the cross through one entire day, counting customers who entered the neighbouring shops, he might well have wondered that any shops in ❋ Unknown (2004)

Very much of the stewardship and management of the property had been in their hands, and they had thriven as honest men, but as men with a tolerably sharp eye to their own interests. ❋ Unknown (2004)

His family, originally of Gloucestershire, had thriven by the plantations in Jamaica; and his father, sent to school in England, and forming a school friendship at Westminster with Lord Mansfield, began the world in this country as a merchant, with inheritance of an enormous West India fortune. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Therefore we pursued our way, in excellent condition, having thriven upon the credit of that very popular highwayman, and being surrounded with regrets that he had left the profession, and sometimes begged to intercede that he might help the road again. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

And here she might have thriven well, and married well under sunny skies, and been a happy woman, but that some black day sent thither a rich and noble English family, eager to behold the Pope. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Barrows, all being busied in harassing the country, and hanging the people where the rebellion had thriven most, my mother, having received from me a message containing my place of abode, contrived to send me, by the pack-horses, as fine a maund as need be of provisions, and money, and other comforts. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Public interest had rushed into another channel; and the men who had thriven for a fortnight on their tongues were driven to employ them on their hands again. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

The family had gathered to triumph over all this, to give a show of tenacious unity, to illustrate gloriously that law of property underlying the growth of their tree, by which it had thriven and spread, trunk and branches, the sap flowing through all, the full growth reached at the appointed time. ❋ Unknown (2004)