Which preposition to use with thrives

in Occurrences 147%

But this is not the way to thrive in Wickedness; I must rush on to RuinCome, fair Mistress, Will you not shew me some of your Arts of Love?

on Occurrences 55%

Horses thrive on Blat's Food.

under Occurrences 17%

McRae's wife and daughter made good his promise, and the wounded man thrived under their care.

by Occurrences 17%

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

with Occurrences 9%

But the young man thrived with his employers, whose business growing rapidly more and more prosperous, and becoming widely extended, they transferred him to a branch house at Malaga.

at Occurrences 8%

Either the House of Correction or the poor mission he is stationed at agrees with him, for he has a sparkling countenance, and seems to be thriving at a genial pace.

for Occurrences 5%

Some infants are so constituted as to require a frequent and total change in their system of living, seeming to thrive for a certain time on any food given to them, but if persevered in too long, declining in bulk and appearance as rapidly as they had previously progressed.

like Occurrences 4%

"And you're thriving like, up here?" asks Isak.

amongst Occurrences 3%

[2024] Erasmus, an illiterate and a barbarous study, (for though they be never so well learned in it, I can hardly vouchsafe them the name of scholars, except they be otherwise qualified) and so few courts are left to that profession, such slender offices, and those commonly to be compassed at such dear rates, that I know not how an ingenious man should thrive amongst them.

from Occurrences 3%

And when March and April came, Inger and he would be wild after each other, just like the birds and beasts in the woods; and when May was come, he would sow his corn and plant potatoes, living and thriving from day to dawn.

about Occurrences 2%

"I shall begrudge no reasonable expense that will contribute to the improvement and neatness of my farms," he wrote one of his managers, "for nothing pleases me better than to see them in good order, and everything trim, handsome, and thriving about them; nor nothing hurts me more than to find them otherwise.

amid Occurrences 2%

Who can long thrive amid exhausting studies on root dinners and ascetic severities?

as Occurrences 2%

It is good to be in the midst of them, for they thrive as never before, and their comforts are few enough these wet bloody days.

near Occurrences 2%

But, to quote another kind of sympathy between human beings and certain plants, the Cingalese have a notion that the cocoa-nut plant withers away when beyond the reach of a human voice, and that the vervain and borage will only thrive near man's dwellings.

through Occurrences 2%

Kittens, it seems, live and thrive through social and domestic upheavals which would annihilate a self-supporting tom-cat, and to-day I read in the morning papers the account of a noble lord's bankruptcy, and in the society ones that of his visit at the house of a Cabinet minister, where he is the most honoured guest.

to Occurrences 2%

At any rate, they still thrive to a large extent among our rural community, by whom they are regarded as so many household sayings.

without Occurrences 2%

The soil appears by account, to be in general fertile, producing abundance of rice and roots; indigo and cotton thrive without cultivation, and tobacco would be excellent, if carefully manufactured; they have fish in plenty; their flocks greatly increase, and their trees are loaded with fruit.

beyond Occurrences 1%

Ere budding friendship's bloom; Remain, sweet germ, within each heart, And thrive beyond the tomb.

than Occurrences 1%

640 Nath'les, perhaps ye things may handle soe, That ye may better thrive than thousands moe.

against Occurrences 1%

True Charity, a plant divinely nursed, Fed by the love from which it rose at first, Thrives against hope, and, in the rudest scene, Storms but enliven its unfading green; Exub'rant is the shadow it supplies, Its fruit on earth, its growth above the skies.

by Occurrences 1%

But the solution of the difficulty is still incomplete, for although these literary "Pleiades" could furnish as it were "the sweet influences of rain and sunshine," to foster his native talent; yet, breath being denied them, its improvement is more than his friend Cowper could have accounted for, without violating his poetical axiom, that Ev'n the oak Thrives by the rude concussion of the storm.

into Occurrences 1%

In the remarks on Australian religion, it is argued that chiefs in Australia are, at most, very inconspicuous, and that a dead chief cannot have thriven into a Supreme Being.

during Occurrences 1%

Simultaneously Squash Racquets thrived during the War.

beneath Occurrences 1%

The palace, with its lovely design and its pilastered windows, is now a rookery, while various industries thrive beneath it.

of Occurrences 1%

Can a graft live or thrive of itself?

Which preposition to use with  thrives