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Thrive   /θraɪv/   Listen
Thrive

verb
(past throve or thrived; past part. thriven or thrived; pres. part. thriving)
1.
Grow vigorously.  Synonyms: boom, expand, flourish.  "Business is booming"
2.
Make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance.  Synonyms: flourish, fly high, prosper.






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"Thrive" Quotes from Famous Books



... trader's face relaxed into a grim smile. "You are a young wolf," he said at last, sheathing his weapon; "yet go and sit with the others. It may be that wolves thrive better ...
— The Thrall of Leif the Lucky • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

... suckling should be killed while as yet it sucks milk? Because He would thereby give us to understand that which St. Peter here teaches; and it is as much as if he had said, preach gently to the young and weak Christians; let them be carefully fed, and thrive in the knowledge of Christ; burden them not with strong doctrine, for they are as yet too young, but after they have become strong, let them then be slaughtered and ...
— The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained • Martin Luther

... did live, and thrive too; and he's the most life-like of the two to-day, I'm thinking. Fatigue, indeed! and he ranging over the hills with that daft laddie Davie Graham, and playing at the ball by the hour together! What should ail him, ...
— The Orphans of Glen Elder • Margaret Murray Robertson

... heavenward dies in smiles. Esteem of men Daily he less esteemed, through single heart More knit with God. To please a sickly child He sang his latest song, and, ending, said, 'Song is but body, though 'tis body winged: The soul of song is love: the body dead, The soul should thrive the more.' That Patmian Sage Whose head had lain upon the Saviour's breast, Who in high vision saw the First and Last, Who heard the harpings of the Elders crowned, Who o'er the ruins of the Imperial House And ashes of the twelve ...
— Legends of the Saxon Saints • Aubrey de Vere

... poorer scholars. "The Grammar Schools which existed," says a reliable authority, "were not mere monkish schools or choristers' schools or elementary schools. Many of them were the same schools which now live and thrive. All were schools of exactly the same type, and performing precisely the same sort of functions as the public schools and grammar schools of to-day. There were indeed also choristers' schools and elementary schools. There were scholarships ...
— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance • Rev. James MacCaffrey


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