flourishingly
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Its arguments for tolerance and fair play, as spoken flourishingly by Actor Watson, are overwrought and sometimes speciously reasoned.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Everything went flourishingly; to be sure, there were more ladies than gentlemen, which required much watching and managing on Bea's part, that no lady should suffer a dearth of masculine attention.
From Six Girls A Home Story by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)
Meanwhile, Algernon went on flourishingly, and ingratiated himself with every one.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
Mr. Cannon read it over, and then Arthur Dayson borrowed the old clerk's vile pen and with the ceremonious delays due to his sense of his own importance, flourishingly added the signature.
From Hilda Lessways by Bennett, Arnold
He sat with the pen perched flourishingly at the end of his fingers, suspended in the serious and artistic business of filling in a form.
From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)