Throve

A guerilla warfare, such as throve in Spain, must surely be crushed in her open plains; and the diffident King returned ❋ John Holland Rose (1898)

And when you throve, you looked about you and saw the beauty of the world and fancied yet greater beauty. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We throve astonishingly in that first week, just as Susie had predicted; our fame spread, and the dago quality began to come in, not only from Santa Fe but from the valley below Albuquerque even, and the rancherias in the country round. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

Cycads throve so spectacularly in the Jurassic, comprising perhaps 20 percent of the flora on the face of the earth, that another name for the era is the Age of Cycads. ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)

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

If one extreme of the first throve in India, the other of the second was flagrantly and very insensitively adopted by the West. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2008)

Occupation I throve so well, that in a little Time I became Master of a ❋ Unknown (2008)

Since erst he lay friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him: for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve, till before him the folk, both far and near, who house by the whale-path, heard his mandate, gave him gifts: a good king he! ❋ Unknown (2006)

He married the first moment that he could; he built a house; he broke the stubborn soil; he throve, as many a cultivated patch bore witness, bravely clad in waving gold. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At Port-Royal, he tells us, he “sowed there some seeds which throve well; and…took therein particular pleasure, although beforehand it had entailed a great deal of labor.” ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

In proportion as he mounted, throve, invitations rained down upon him. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Envied did nothing save prosper; and the more the other strove to injure him, the more he got and gained and throve. ❋ Unknown (2006)

She conceived by him straightway, and, when her months were accomplished, she bare a man child and named him Sahím al-Layl. 318 He grew up with his brother Gharib among the nurses and throve and waxed upon the lap of the Emir ❋ Unknown (2006)

There he sold his goods and paid his debts; and he throve and became affluent and rose to perfect prosperity. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Thank you so much, and I really do appreciate your interest in this treasure throve of the Mother's Best of my dad, Hank Williams. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When her months were accomplished, she gave birth to a male child like the moon, whom his father named Ardashir,262 and he grew up and throve and applied himself to the study of learning and letters, till he attained the age of fifteen. ❋ Unknown (2006)