thriven

I hate to nitpick about this, but please, please, can people begin to say "thriven" and "throve"?

That List Of "Democrats And Indys" Backing McCain? It's A Bit Of A Sham. 2009

They have thriven well and increased with great rapidity, so that now (1869) the whole town is full of them.

Cepaea nemoralis AYDIN 2009

They have thriven well and increased with great rapidity, so that now (1869) the whole town is full of them.

Archive 2009-08-01 AYDIN 2009

Such things as could be said for him were said, — how he had taken to industrious habits, and had thriven lawfully and reputably.

Great Expectations 2007

He has thriven even as I have; and he has found, as I have, that in making one friend at Court you make ten foes; but ‘Oderint dum metuant’ is no more my motto than his,

Westward Ho! 2007

And what am I but a poor, wasted, wan-thriven tree, dug up by the roots, and flung out to waste in the highway, that man and beast may tread it under foot?

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

Easily the worst of the (mostly great) writers from the British Isles to have ever thriven in America (although Millar has a shot at deserving that dubious distinction, too).

WAR STORIES Vol 2. Vertigo (DC) Comics, 2006 David Campbell 2007

The arrangement — for it was little more — had worked satisfactorily enough; Grace had thriven, and Melbury had not repented.

The Woodlanders 2006

Then I have a quarrel against his face, though in his person, for a well-thriven man, tolerably genteel — Not to his features so much neither; for what, as you have often observed, are features in a man? —

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Very much of the stewardship and management of the property had been in their hands, and they had thriven as honest men, but as men with a tolerably sharp eye to their own interests.

The American Senator 2004