Other men had done the same and prospered.

The change brought a measure of security, and as we prospered I soon began to see that something must be done in our Virginian trade.

Most of them had gone afield from Scotland, and it was a fine incentive to us young men to see how mightily they had prospered.

My own business prospered hugely, and I bought on credit such a stock of tobacco as made me write my uncle for a fourth ship at the harvest sailing.

They were industrious farmers, though, and the three girls and their mother worked from morning till night, so the farm prospered and the Sizers were reputed to be "well-off.

Rarely, at any period of the world's history, perhaps only in Athens between the Persian and the Peloponnesian wars, has culture, in the highest and best sense of that word, prospered more intelligently and pacifically than it did in the Florence of Lorenzo, through the co-operation and mutual zeal of men of eminence, inspired by common enthusiasms, and labouring in diverse though cognate fields of study and production.

This having been done, the business thrived and prospered once more, and continued to do so for some years.

Meanwhile members of other branches had entered commercial life, and had therein prospered exceedingly.

One has prospered and is comfortable and well-to-do.

Their business had prospered, and they were conveniently situated, but, for all that, Miss Sophonisba had no mind to pay additional rent.

How has Lauzun prospered in his wooing of Mademoiselle de Montpensier?

Eventually it prospered and resulted finally in a permanent organization from which grew the Minneapolis Y.M.C.A. Poor though he was, and he started in the West with nothing, he made friends everywhere.

When, the colony was driven into exile in 1713 by George II., Basil settled in Louisiana, and greatly prospered; but his son led a wandering life, looking for Evangeline, and died in Pennsylvania of the plague.

As long as I was in America everything prospered with me.

All his liberated slaves prospered, all learned to read and write, two are now ministers of the gospel, and one is the Governor's agent, and a man of property.

This planter prospered, and his children after him; and while he may have had a rugged nature, his descendants to-day are among the gentlest of Louisianians.

When the price of the staple was high, both planters and farmers prospered in proportion to their scales.

"Since the Modoc War many of my people have prospered.

So he amassed wealth, and prospered.

(Mr. Prince, with his Russia Oil, would have prospered under Royal Patronage in those days; and Mr. Rowland would not have needed immortality in Byron's verse: "incomparable huile Macassar.")

The commercial traffic of England has grown and prospered under our present system, and if its ever increasing importance demands high speed passenger lines, we may rest assured that the ingenuity of man, to which it is impossible to assign limits, will satisfactorily solve the problem.

"At the return of this fleet (from Rochel) two of the whelps were cast away, and three ships more, and some five ships who had some of those great stones, that were brought to build Pauls, for ballast and for other uses within them, which could promise no good success, for I never heard of any thing that prospered which being once designed for the honour of God was alienated from that use.

" Bedient knew if his work prospered, all that had been before would be redeemed.

His own portrait prospered slowly, a fact in which the world might have found humor.

Their son Alexis convinced them of this; and he had always prospered.