Some soft, pulpy thing that thrives all the better for abuse?

It is hardy, thrives in light, sandy soil, and is increased by either seeds or cuttings planted in sand.

While the natural strength lasts, (for every child is born with more health and strength than is generally imagined,) it cries at or rejects the superfluous load, and thrives apace; that is, grows very fat, bloated, and distended beyond measure, like a house lamb.

Ill thrive the folly that bewitch'd me so, Vain thoughts, adieu, for now I will repent.

'A poacher's widow sat sighing On the side of the white chalk bank, Where under the gloomy fir-woods One spot in the ley throve rank.

As the farms became thick, and towns throve, and life became more complex, the chances for variety in work and thought increased likewise.

Our President, himself a Western man, proposes to colonize the free negro in Central America, and thriving colonies already exist on the coast of Africa.

Man ought to feel humble when he reflects upon the fact that he can survive, and even thrive on, any distress except distress of the body.

Whenever the emperor warred against his lay vassals, he was sure of assistance from the bishops, because they were at all times jealous of the power of the counts, and had much less to gain from an alliance with them than with the imperial despots on whose donations they throve, and who repaid their efforts by new privileges and extended possessions.

Mr. Prosper shook his head as he found himself suddenly provided with so plentiful and thriving a family.

Sir, I thanke you, But have no mind to thrive upon abuse of My princes favour nor the peoples curse.

which in no other land will thrive Freedom!

The Pink, for instance, may be sown at any time, Sweet William thrives best if sown in March or April, the variegated and light colored Larkspurs should not be put in until December, the Dahlia germinates most successfully in the rains, and the beautiful class of Zinnias are never seen to perfection unless sown in June.

It is upon the farm that virtue should thrive the best, that the body and the mind should be developed the most healthfully, that temptations should be the weakest, that social intercourse should be the simplest and sweetest, that beauty should thrill the soul with the finest raptures, and that life should be tranquillest in its flow, longest in its period, and happiest in its passage and its issues.

Some mining will develop on those broad, dry plains and sandy wastes; some agriculture where irrigation is possible; and great wool-growing wherever thrive the nutritious grasses on which 13,000,000 sheep, scattered over the Karroo of Cape Colony, and 4,000,000 in the little Orange Free State, were grazing before the recent war.

The immorals o' the people throve an' grew.

to thirty thousand; and the leading towns, Louisville, Lexington, Harrodsburg, Booneboro, St. Asaph's, were thriving little hamlets, with stores and horse grist-mills, and no longer mere clusters of stockaded cabins.

How does your lady, and how thrives your love?"

They are thriving men.

How thrive thy oats, thy barley, and thy wheat? HAR.

And last, with jealous glancing eye, That seem'd in all around to pry, A Painter's ghost in voice suppres'd, Thus questioning, the group address'd; Sweet strangers, may I too demand, How thrive the offspring of my hand?

And yet with all his arts he could not thrive; The most unlucky parasite alive.

And some of those who emigrated, having made a good deal of money, instead of being cooped up in a workshop, are now thriving proprietors in Upper Canada.

If they can fill their bellies with a mess of glory I'll not grudge them what they can snatch; but I'll fill mine with food less spiced, and we'll see which of us thrives bestthese sons of Mars or the old patroon who stays at home and dips his nose into nothing worse than old Madeira!" He gave me a cunning look, pushed his wig partly straight, and lay back, puffing quietly at his pipe.

How could buttered toast, emblem of softness, thrive in so hard a temperature?