1 The Fontaines had fared best of any, thanks to Sally's hard ride, but it was flourishing only by comparison with the desperate situation of the other neighbors.
2 And so saying the lighted tomahawk began flourishing about me in the dark.
3 They owned a flourishing grocery business in a thickly populated suburb of Memphis, and a white man named Barrett had one on the opposite corner.
4 The warriors drew their knives, and flourishing them, they arranged themselves in two lines, forming a lane that extended from the war-party to the lodges.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 5 Of two brothers, very similar in temperament and character, one had settled on a flourishing farm in Vermont, and the other became an opulent planter in Louisiana.
6 But the action of the woman had been seen by the driver, across the field; and, flourishing his whip, he came up to her.
7 Evidently the Chichikovian finances were not in the most flourishing of conditions.
8 Nesvitski, moving his moist lips as he chewed something, and flourishing his arm, called him to enter.
9 Two soldiers held him while two others were flourishing their switches and striking him regularly on his bare back.
10 The tall lad was standing in front, flourishing his arm and saying something with a stern look.
11 Petya clenched his teeth and looked around, throwing back his head and flourishing his arms.
12 One of his most intimate friends was a merchant who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty.
13 I admire them much more if they are tall, straight, and flourishing.
14 Both flourishing thankye," said Wemmick, "and particularly the Aged.
15 But Levin saw that he simply did so from a feeling of propriety, and that his farm was in a flourishing condition.