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Prosper   /prˈɑspər/   Listen
Prosper

verb
(past & past part. prospered; pres. part. prospering)
1.
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, thrive.



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"Prosper" Quotes from Famous Books



... she is beautiful," said I, "she deserves to prosper, and if I have not called on her it is only that I am anxious to do nothing which ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... select circle, in whose outer ranges of general benevolence the right of citizenship was granted to so many choice figures. Among the more distinguished of these latter may be named Benjamin Constant, the Duke de Doudeauville, De Gerando, Prosper de Barante, Delacroix, Gerard, Thierry, Ville-main, Lamartine, Guizot, De Tocqueville, Sainte Beuve. Surrounded by such persons as these, in the humble chamber to which, on the loss of her fortune, she had betaken herself, she presided like a priestess in the temple of friendship, ever ...
— The Friendships of Women • William Rounseville Alger

... E. Population 8237. An old town. Cotton printing with hand blocks is a local industry. The town should now prosper as it is a station on the Chichoki—Shorkot Road Railway and irrigation from the Lower Chenab Canal ...
— The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir • Sir James McCrone Douie

... his first days in Florence. He was charmed by the soft lines of the Tuscan hills and the beauty of the Tuscan speech. Lorenzo the Magnificent had been ruling Florence for many years and was then at the climacteric of his fame. Under his sway everything appeared to prosper. Enemies had been imprisoned or banished, and factions had ceased to distract the city. Lorenzo's shameless licentiousness was condoned by reason of his brilliancy, his patronage of art and literature, and his lavish ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol X • Various

... used at funerals in Persia. Its seeds were sown by the Romans with maledictions and curses through the belief that the more it was abused the better it would prosper. When desiring a good crop they trod it down with their feet, and prayed the gods it might not vegetate. The Greeks likewise supposed Basil to thrive best when sown with swearing; and this fact explains the French saying, Semer la Basilic, as signifying "to slander." It was told ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie


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