She is a posturing mountebank, who thrives by astounding humanity.

It is supposed, also, to have health-giving virtues; for in Germany, when an infant seems weakly and thrives slowly, it is placed naked upon the turf on Midsummer day, and flax-seed is sprinkled over it; the idea being that as the flax-seed grows so the infant will gradually grow stronger.

"Queens drop away, while blue-legged Maukin thrives, And courtly Mildred dies, while country Madge survives.

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

I have often said that a Government really thrives on obstruction and so far as the proposal not to take the oath of allegiance is concerned, I can really see no meaning in it; it amounts to a useless waste of valuable time and money.

The blue fox has been found to be the only one that multiplies well in comparative captivity, and he thrives on salmon flesh.

And because the heat is more intense in the south, than the cold in the north, and because every wight thrives better in cold than in heat, therefore is Africa inferior to Europe, both in the number of its people, and in the extent of its land.

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

The Sub-contractor?These facts relating to a few of the principal trades in the lower branches of which "sweating" thrives, must suffice as a general indication of the character of the disease as it infests the inferior strata of almost all industries.

"Nature ever Finding discordant fortune, like all seed Out of its proper climate, thrives but ill: But were the world content to work, And work on the foundation Nature lays, It would not lack of excellence."

Here, too, the bracken thrives, and many a fine old oak tree spreads its branches, revelling in the clay soil.

Every forest tree thrives hereabouts; and in the open spaces that occur at intervals in the forest there grow such masses of wild flowers as are nowhere else to be seen in the Cotswold district.

Even the lily-of-the-valley thrives here.

See, therethe fated victim of mischance; Read, in that hollow eye, and alter'd look, The deep anxiety which gnaws the heart, Incessant struggling 'gainst a tide of care, Which wears his life away;and there, again, The empty, lucky Fool, who never thought, Nor ever will, yet lives and smiles, and thrives!

" The last line of which in Mr. Collier's folio is changed to "And so farewell; Rebellion never thrives.

"I lack the maudlin disposition in which the taste usually thrives.

Strange to say, this brake of the cliffs thrives in cultivation.

All faiths beside, or did by arms ascend; Or, sense indulged, has made mankind their friend: This only doctrine does our lusts oppose Unfed by Nature's soil, in which it grows; Cross to our interests, curbing sense, and sin; 160 Oppress'd without, and undermined within, It thrives through pain; its own tormentors tires; And with a stubborn patience still aspires.

What wonder is't that black detraction thrives?

Thus lodged (as vice by great example thrives) It first debauch'd the daughters and the wives.

Under the most favorable conditions in Florida, where this species thrives, such trees often tower to a height of 125 feet.

The stems and branches of lavender being ligneous and strong are able to resist the force of the wind, and the plant thrives best in a perfectly open locality, where the air circulates freely; the oil and resin which it contains in abundance enable it to resist the parching action of the wind and sun.

No matter if he lives and thrives: he will sometimes remember the days when he was free, and be very sad.

No, it's our fault if the Black Hand thrives.

A woman thrives on love and appreciation.