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Prospering   /prˈɑspərɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Prosper  v. t.  (past & past part. prospered; pres. part. prospering)  To favor; to render successful. "Prosper thou our handiwork." "All things concur toprosper our design."


Prosper  v. i.  
1.
To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain. "They, in their earthly Canaan placed, Long time shall dwell and prosper."
2.
To grow; to increase. (Obs.) "Black cherry trees prosper even to considerable timber."





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... Everything was prospering beyond Mr. Hardy's most sanguine expectations. More and more land was monthly being broken up and irrigated. Large profits had been realized by buying lean cattle during the dry season, fattening them upon ...
— Out on the Pampas - The Young Settlers • G. A. Henty
... by the blow that had fallen upon the colony, which, in spite of difficulties, had been steadily growing and prospering, the officers of the government as soon as possible began to take steps to punish the Tuscaroras and their allies for the unspeakable atrocities committed by them during the awful days of the massacre, and also to devise means ...
— In Ancient Albemarle • Catherine Albertson
... the day we passed through two only. The first was a little place where decay would have been absolute had it not been for the likin[AR] flag, which enables "squeezes" to be extorted ruthlessly from the muleteer and conveyed to the pockets of the prospering customs agent. It boasted only ten or twelve tumbling lean-to tenements, where my sympathy went out to the half-dozen physical wrecks of men who came slowly and stared long, and wondered at the commonest article of my meager impedimenta. They seemed poorer and lower down the human ...
— Across China on Foot • Edwin Dingle
... flowers. Of course the towns are dirty, but they are not nearly as dirty and offensive as those of Italy; and there is something pathetic and childlike about the people. We are giving them a good government and the island is prospering. I never saw a finer set of young fellows than those engaged in the administration. Mr. Grahame, whom of course you remember, is the intimate friend and ally of the leaders of the administration, that ...
— Letters to His Children • Theodore Roosevelt
... prospering his work in the hands of his servants employed in ecclesiastical affairs, gave no less countenance unto the parliament of England, with the assistance they received from Scotland, in defeating all the wicked attempts of the popish, prelatical and malignant party in England, overthrowing ...
— Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive • The Reformed Presbytery


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