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1. At the same time it has been observed for years, for instance, that many executives with high-pressure jobs seem to remain quite healthy until old age – they seem to flourish in their pressure-cooker jobs
2. With a flourish of his wings, Kerubiel banished Serpent from the Garden
3. their table and delivered the drinks with a flourish
4. simple flourish of the hand and a softly spoken word
5. surface of the tea, and with a tiny, eighty year old flourish she sat down opposite her
6. epidemic, or that fatal nudge into oncoming traffic? Oh, I do things with a flourish
7. Happiness began to flourish among the nations of the
8. None of it’s dramatic, not in your way…I mean, how do you make a public drama out of the long drawing down of a cancer, or the slow meander of a mild epidemic, or that fatal nudge into oncoming traffic? Oh, I do things with a flourish sometimes, I suppose, the knife and the psychosis, but no, my book is made up of dark matter, whereas yours lists the stars that shine for bright, sparkling mortality
9. Cara Kara, We have been together now for nearly three years and I am increasingly frustrated because I cannot give you tokens of my love for you to flourish in the face of everyone we know
10. It cannot flourish if the body is purified
11. It becomes a time of refuelling the body so that it may continue to flourish
12. The musicians were assailed with encouragement until the final flourish of the tune and the split second of silence that followed
13. “Cheers!” he shouted and bowed to her with a flourish
14. And so, with a flourish and a bow the old man gave Terry the shin pads, showed him how to tuck them into his socks and then told the dog to give the boy his ball back
15. The experts sat and watched each contestant, and as all such experts are trained to do, they sat there in po-faced silence until, with a flourish and a wicked gleam in their eyes, it came to the time for judgement
16. The young man opened the door with his usual flourish, a showman to the end, and was greeted by a storm of flashing electric light, and once his eyes had adjusted, to a positive vision in pink
17. And so, with a flourish and a bow the old man gave Terry
18. with a flourish and a wicked gleam in their eyes, it came to the time
19. ” Naria bowed with a flourish and became dizzy with the effort
20. young man opened the door with his usual flourish, a showman to
21. He signed it with a flourish and handed it back
22. They picked up their staffs and began following him down the road, every now and then 'switching sides' at a moment of their own choosing and with a flourish of new precision
23. With a flourish, they produce two bunches of daffodils from behind their backs – a present for me
24. Jameson listened attentively and had to agree that his writings did not have the flourish and general elegance Titania and Hipolyta's compositions conveyed
25. It was difficult to find someone of Harry's caliber to participate in the acrobatics, though in the artistic floor exercises and rings, and other individual disciplines Harry was alone in expertise and flourish
26. Migrating birds flourish along with the national white wagtail
27. (After walking a long ways)… I came to an opening where the country seemed to descend to the west; and due east; and the country appeared so fresh, so green, so flourishing, everything being in a constant verdure or flourish of spring that it looked like a planted garden
28. If the manufactures, especially, of which those commodities are the materials, should ever come to flourish in the country, the market, though it might not be much enlarged, would at least be brought much nearer to the place of growth than before ; and the price of those materials might at least be increased by what had usually been the expense of transporting them to distant countries
29. But this was just a part of Mother Nature’s way of assisting her children so they could flourish and emerge into stronger, wiser, and more enhanced beings
30. England was noted for the manufacture of fine cloths made of Spanish wool, more than a century before any of those which now flourish in the places above mentioned were fit for foreign sale
31. In the midst of the most destructive foreign war, therefore, the greater part of manufactures may frequently flourish greatly; and, on the contrary, they may decline on the return of peace
32. They may flourish amidst the ruin of their country, and begin to decay upon the return of its prosperity
33. He greeted her with an exaggerated flourish of his colorful sleeve
34. With an artist's flourish she made a last connecting trace on the course and grinned at the rest of them on the bridge
35. Evidently, these animals flourish on this part of the planet
36. She seated herself in the Captain's chair with a flourish of her robes---a very imperial gesture
37. That security which the laws in Great Britain give to every man, that he shall enjoy the fruits of his own labour, is alone sufficient to make any country flourish, notwithstanding these and twenty other absurd regulations of commerce ; and this security was perfected by the Revolution, much about the same time that the bounty was established
38. Without an extensive foreign market, they could not well flourish, either in countries so moderately extensive as to afford but a narrow home market, or in countries where the communication between one province and another was so difficult, as to render it impossible for the goods of any particular place to enjoy the whole of that home market which the country could afford
39. In the state in which things were, through the greater part of Europe, during the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, and for some time both before and after that period, the constitution of the church of Rome may be considered as the most formidable combination that ever was formed against the authority and security of civil government, as well as against the liberty, reason, and happiness of mankind, which can flourish only where civil government is able to protect them
40. It has been found through experimentation that when plants grow in an environment, where ultra-violet light is filtered out and where carbon dioxide content in the air is increased, they flourish and bear more fruit than under normal conditions today
41. Commerce and manufactures, in short, can seldom flourish in any state, in which there is not a certain degree of confidence in the justice of government
42. “Please allow me”, and with a flourish he went to open the gate
43. There are many great minds that have not been allowed to flourish in your so-called meritocratic society
44. She had been struggling with the realisation for some time, knowing that it could only hurt them both, that it was hopeless to begin a relationship that could never flourish within these walls
45. It was far less painful to hold his emotions in, to leave the truth untold, than to allow their feelings to flourish before being cut short
46. The dread of Ashanti being removed, the Adansis will return to their own territory, and the ruined capital Fomena will again flourish, under the rule of the King: a fine old man who had offered every facility to the Expedition, and with whom a treaty had been drawn up a few weeks before the march started
47. (the latter constituting a lower form of friendship, however), while former friends move on with their lives…or grow apart… in search of more suitable arrangements although once maturer relationships suddenly flourish, will (ultimately) reveal that it isn‘t the quantity of friends that matter the most, however, but the level of intimacy among those counted as friends
48. Finishing my beer with a flourish, I threw the empty can under the workbench
49. A well-order society requires the cooperation of all its citizens; that they work at resolving their differences in manner bounded by common goals, apart from common ideology, if that society hopes to flourish and sustain itself
50. She told him all this with a charming smile, and a kind of verbal flourish
1. The Mayan, and their precursor’s the Olmec, flourished for a millennium along Mexico’s Gulf coast
2. To understand the reasons why this culture flourished completely intertwined with the ocean and the earth around them, we must look at their relations with those around them
3. flourished a handkerchief and offered to wipe
4. From behind his back he flourished two plastic shopping bags
5. With that kind of struggle, the early Church flourished
6. Bram flourished that wry grin of his
7. Such manufactures, therefore, are the offspring of foreign commerce; and such seem to have been the ancient manufactures of silks, velvets, and brocades, which flourished in Lucca during the thirteenth century
8. Such, too, seem to have been the manufactures of fine cloths that anciently flourished in Flanders, and which were introduced into England in the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth, and such are the present silk manufactures of Lyons and Spitalfields
9. The flax crop flourished as the summer turned
10. The manufacture of claying or refining sugar, accordingly, though it has flourished in all the sugar colonies of France, has been little cultivated in any of those of England, except for the market of the colonies themselves
11. Jupiter’s vast realm of gods had flourished
12. These streams contained trout and other course fish and on the surface and in the reeds wild duck flourished
13. Not to be confused with the Sumerians who flourished at approximately the same time, but who were civilized, living in cities, and not riding the range in pursuit of trophies
14. Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-18 AD, Roman poet who flourished at the time of Augustus who, not being happy with Ovid"s „Metamorpheses" as being too prurient, banished him to the north shore of the (Euxine) Black Sea, never to return to his beloved Rome
15. The sawmill business flourished and continued to
16. Beth felt that the social upheaval of the sixties was an environment in which her hostess would have flourished and said as much, instantly wishing she hadn’t
17. The Wicca night of mystery, the night when the veil between THERE and HERE was thin as paper, and tarot readers flourished
18. It was his opinion that as a result the ring flourished and even expanded its markets into the nightclubs of San José
19. That is why our arcology has flourished
20. Jack had fond memories of the old days, when Queensland had been known as a police state – where corruption had flourished and the police had wielded total power
21. Using all sources, not just the Bible, the controversial British Egyptologist says that the inhabitants of Paradise migrated to Mesopotamia in the sixth millennium BC and settled in Sumer, where a great culture flourished that led to the invention of writing and the creation of Uruk, considered the first great city of humanity
22. In the years that followed, he appreciated the emerging paradise, especially after we’d sunk a borehole that yielded abundant water for the sprinkling system and the garden flourished in that hot, dry climate
23. Swelling over the top of the wall and protecting the occupants from view and noise of the street, peach trees flourished
24. jingoistic writing flourished, and the U
25. We lost most of our army in the conquest, but have flourished since then and are among the richest people in the Khanate
26. 11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates
27. They escaped the Eagle, settled in a small valley, and flourished
28. He flourished now in his expensive flat, working in the city, wearing that new beautiful face
29. The Kigzh seemed to have flourished under the Khanate, for there were many settlements along the way
30. It had worked and they had flourished, eventually growing too large for their valleys in the northeast and migrating in all directions
31. In the West more often than not that has been in the form of Christian heresy, such as the Brethren of the Free Spirit that flourished in northern Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries
32. Yoga, while the other flourished in Bhoga
33. You could say that I was a daughter of privilege, and as a result, I flourished
34. Guadix was a center of multireligious mysticism where Mohamedanism, Judaism and Catholicism flourished side by side for many centuries
35. At least of equal significance, however, are the cooperative agricultural communes (kibbutzim), which have flourished since 1948
36. Epistemology has flourished within this potential space
37. where Calvinism flourished, there was also a marked growth of industry
38. transcendental movement flourished in New England among the scions of the Boston
39. “Well in that case,” Talia smiled as she gave a flourished wave, “Silaran and Kragorram, I dub thee Sir Silaran and Sir Kragorram, valiant Knights of the Principality of Hilia!”
40. Of course it helps that they have the complete and discreet co-operation of The Just Alliance, which gives them unhindered access to any resource, including the surviving writings and priests of the religions that flourished before the gods withdrew
41. The seventh mountain again had cheerful pastures and the whole mountain was blooming and every kind of cattle and birds were feeding on that mountain; and the more the cattle and the birds ate the more the grass of that mountain flourished
42. Two bowmen followed, and the chieftain flourished his sword and shouted
43. Beverley Bennie’s business flourished and she gave her children a good home
44. Inventions followed each other rapidly and the civilization flourished
45. flourished a tall, well-tended plant, such as were on the lawns of
46. He was the reason that seed flourished when conditions were unfavorable
47. Zack turned his surfboard into a submarine and went under water where he saw large sea snakes with golden crowns on their heads, large plants that flourished on the bottom and blinked in many different colors and then shot the colors into the air causing great fireworks
48. The water plant flourished and water began to burst from its leaves and petals
49. Huge trees that flourished with silver strawberries and gold apple nuggets
50. Since that time, the Valentine card business has flourished
1. Birdlife flourishes here: herons, ducks,
2. Under Senta and Isin's patient tutelage, Deni and Song became adept at the subtle movements required to perform the basics of the Lascorii Court 'dances and rituals' which is what the robe flourishes were used for to begin with
3. “You’re a fast learner,” Jean said after barely defending the last flourishes of Hayley’s blade
4. But I’ve come to understand that the profit motive flourishes in
5. 6 In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and withers
6. 15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes
7. Surprisingly, in its land also flourishes a vigorous winery of French, not English, antecedence
8. Nonetheless, in places where tourism flourishes, the Chinese have learned all the capitalist tricks of the West
9. It rests against a hearty evergreen that flourishes in contrast with the yellow and orange leaves falling from the surrounding trees
10. flourishes and slowly rises to the surface
11. His batting is based on complete balance and poise while limiting unnecessary movements and flourishes
12. ‘They are the foundation on which the individual flourishes
13. And look at the flourishes
14. For the affection which flourishes upon the Path of
15. The rhythmic pulse of the chords was accented with flourishes of short, distorted lead lines
16. arrived at the mechanism by which that seed within us flourishes
17. Now it's the remembering of iniquity that causes sin to flourish, so if your iniquity is not dealt with, sin flourishes in your life
18. Had any girl ever experienced such a kiss? She’d read about plenty of kisses between people in love, and had thought all the rapid breathing, racing hearts and heaving bosoms were nothing more than corny flourishes meant to add excitement and passion to a book
19. Happiness flourishes out of solutions and the state of balance
20. Women were made to truly care about others, since their major function is to make sure their species continues and flourishes, while men care about whatever improves their own lot
21. You have more than a courage of the heart, in you the Power rises and flourishes unlike any that I have seen and I too commanded the Old Magic once
22. When art flourishes and people have transcendental experiences because of them, then culture has taken excess labor hours – those hours when we are not employed in the production of the means of survival
23. As she falls into an alley, at the beginning of which there is a yellow tape with swirls and flourishes that mark the entrance to one of the greatest crimes that has ever been committed upon the human race, she realizes what all has just happened
24. flourishes with her arms, but after calling her attention to this it
25. The drug trade flourishes just because of one principle, the money has to end up in the coffers of
26. Everything in this world is born, flourishes for a while and then dies
27. Whether any species, or animal, or organism survives or goes extinct, regardless of how valiantly it struggles, or fights, whether it perishes or flourishes, whether it outlasts other species or not; the dance of regeneration is a balanced dynamic
28. � When we separate ourselves from community in that way, we also separate ourselves from the search for self, the becoming self which flourishes best in community if not in conformity
29. Furthermore, it is just as obvious that the religious poetry and flourishes
30. The menstrual glow of car meat flourishes on the causeway of high wires and short-sleeved cops, in the sweaty-heat of the speed-chase
31. Monogamy is not something that suddenly and finally takes shape, a petrifying of emotion that for a season in courtship flourishes
32. And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
33. This note, prettily written on scented paper, was a great contrast to the next, which was scribbled on a big sheet of thin foreign paper, ornamented with blots and all manner of flourishes and curly-tailed letters
34. The horns of the victors sounded merry and cheerful flourishes, until the last laggard of the camp was at his post; but the instant the British fifes had blown their shrill signal, they became mute
35. (He flourishes his ashplant, shivering the lamp image, shattering light over the world
36. “He sat there like a little mouse and thought, and in half a minute it was fixed!” She flourishes her brilliant fingernails and breaks into childlike laughter
37. “This look?” Bastian says, and flourishes his fat hand
38. The maid leads him into a grand drawing room, its ceilings aswirl with plaster flourishes, its walls painted a delicate eggshell blue
39. In this great district the wild rubber tree flourishes, and has become, as in the Congo, a curse to the natives which can only be compared to their forced labor under the Spaniards upon the old silver mines of Darien
40. Last summer, with William, it had been easier to imagine these black smudges as so many painterly flourishes on the sky
41. In fact, it flourishes in an almost playful environment of open-minded wonder, so it is not by chance that this is also the environment that is most conducive to learning and skill development
42. “Tony, when looking back through history, there is one thing we can see with absolute certainty: every investment has an ideal environment in which it flourishes
43. Where did I get all these curlicues, these flourishes and this swift perfect use of the pen?
44. The birds with their plumage and their notes are in harmony with the flowers, but what youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside
45. Let all the material progress ever dreamt of by religious and scientific men be made; let all men accept Christianity, and let all the improvements suggested by the Bellamys and Richets, with every possible addition and correction, be carried out; and yet if the hypocrisy of to-day still flourishes, if men do not make known the truth that is within them, but go on pretending to believe what they know to be untrue, showing respect where they no longer feel it, their condition will never improve; on the contrary, it will become worse
1. Where I would expect to see flourishing flocks of sheep, there are a few goats, scavenging amongst the scrub
2. speed of lighting everyday and are flourishing too because of the interest and enthusiasm of
3. (After walking a long ways)… I came to an opening where the country seemed to descend to the west; and due east; and the country appeared so fresh, so green, so flourishing, everything being in a constant verdure or flourish of spring that it looked like a planted garden
4. In England, however, notwithstanding the flourishing state of its woollen manufacture, the price of English wool has fallen very considerably since the time of Edward III
5. As the low value of gold and silver, therefore, is no proof of the wealth and flourishing state of the country where it takes place ; so neither is their high value, or the low money price either of goods in general, or of corn in particular, any proof of its poverty and barbarism
6. In consequence of better machinery, of greater dexterity, and of a more proper division and distribution of work, all of which are the natural effects of improvement, a much smaller quantity of labour becomes requisite for executing any particular piece of work ; and though, in consequence of the flourishing circumstances of the society, the real price of labour should rise very considerably, yet the great diminution of the quantity will generally much more than compensate the greatest rise which can happen in the price
7. When we compare, therefore, the state of a nation at two different periods, and find that the annual produce of its land and labour is evidently greater at the latter than at the former, that its lands are better cultivated, its manufactures more numerous and more flourishing, and its trade more extensive; we may be assured that its capital must have increased during the interval between those two periods, and that more must have been added to it by the good conduct of some, than had been taken from it either by the private misconduct of others, or by the public extravagance of government
8. At the conclusion of the late war, the most expensive that Great Britain ever waged, her agriculture was as flourishing, her manufacturers as numerous and as fully employed, and her commerce as extensive, as they had ever been before
9. He stood silently while all three women looked at him as if he were a complete fool, before he bowed deeply; flourishing his Guardian cloak that - he was certain - would be hiding part of his form, because at that moment he did not want to be seen! The women nodded when he straightened; Jean’s expression was hurt as she passed by him
10. I know the Portuguese Security Police paid a bounty on dead terrorists, and since a body or a couple of heads were relatively heavy to carry a flourishing trade in (hopefully) terrorists’ ears began in Angola during the 1960s
11. He gave a flourishing bow toward the curtain, then turned and strode toward the door
12. I know the Portuguese Security Police paid a bounty on dead terrorists and since a body or a couple of heads are relatively heavy to carry a flourishing trade in (hopefully) terrorists’ ears started in Angola during the 1960s
13. Prabhu suddenly appeared in the form of a White rider flourishing a
14. proceeded down the stairs and made his way into the flourishing crowd on the
15. 14 They shall still bring out fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
16. ‘Parochial Town’ by The Moogles, a flourishing rock band from
17. 4 I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace: 5 I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts
18. It was what the remnant of the Iyehyeh have done and they are flourishing and expanding
19. At twenty-seven he was wealthy, with a flourishing social life
20. I asked about his town and he said that it was flourishing although it was not yet a large as it had been before the plagues
21. Lord intended that He Himself rule over the flourishing tribe
22. you have a flourishing and lucrative ministry
23. The trees reappeared each morning, flourishing
24. Charles Spence has a failing lawn care business, and there were a lot of old machine parts piled around the house, and the lunch we all had was a food stamp lunch, but all in all I thought that the place was flourishing without us
25. But our recent tiny successes, our flourishing community, have fuelled their loathing more than ever
26. The Occidental State has no interest in the flourishing of its social and natural environments or in advancing peace and stability; rather, the State cares only about enhancing the power and wealth of a politically entitled few
27. For they longed to whittle down life's flourishing nursery to one homogenised and inbred collective
28. Though Yugoslavia was a communist country, limited capitalism was allowed and flourishing
29. Knowing exactly what was going on, the two men assumed positions on each side of the platform from where they made flourishing movements with their hands toward the open door
30. Annyeke could see mountains and streams and forests, great cities rising and falling, their peoples flourishing for a moment before vanishing to make way for the next
31. "And those who believed from the seventh mountain on which the grass was green and flourishing and the whole of the mountain fertile and every kind of cattle and the fowls of heaven were feeding on the grass on this mountain and the grass on which they pastured became more abundant were the following: they were always simple and harmless and blessed bringing no charges against one another but always rejoicing greatly because of the servants of God and being clothed with the holy spirit of these virgins and always having pity on every man and giving aid from their own labour to every man without reproach and without hesitation
32. windows of time when a culture was flourishing, and take this to
33. The rich, opulent fields of wheat flourishing as the time for harvest neared gave an almost golden hue to the skyline
34. (14) They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
35. India had a flourishing ship building industry and trade with other countries along the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, and Far East Asia before the British rule
36. halt to flourishing new civilizations
37. Once outside, Sam and the others could see where they really were, and though the outside was flourishing with life, they were now at the home of the white rhino plant and the beast that protected it
38. The hawk explained how the lands were now flourishing, but they needed to quickly plant the remaining half of the white rhino plant
39. Apparently there is a flourishing cult of Diana
40. It was not the flourishing antique business -- using Canadian Forces aircraft to transport valuable British historical artefacts to Canada for lucrative sales -- that bothered Ottawa
41. I am happy to say the meetings are now flourishing
42. is more vast and flourishing
43. (600–1200 AD); the Middle Eastern empire was the most flourishing
44. However, the job was done and I did not forget to instruct the men to be especially careful not to disturb the roots of the young but flourishing Nectarine tree
45. foundation for the construction of a harmonious society, while a flourishing society ensures the peace of families
46. flourishing in no time at all
47. With the economic boom from the agriculture, boosted tremendously by the hydroponics farms introduced by the Time Patrol, and from the flourishing tourism industry, everybody was too busy making a good living to listen to those extremists
48. The gently swaying palms interweaving amongst exquisite landscape gardens, flourishing naturally near the equator, left a charmed feeling inside that neither man had felt before
49. He was a cactus, flourishing in the parched desert environment of chronic civil war, getting rich because he kept his head while everyone else was losing theirs
50. and the vegetable herbs of earth flourishing in it without any nutritional additives