flourishingly

Example Sentences

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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

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

Nay, not content with giving him the goods, many of the poor demented creatures actually paraded their folly at their doors in new deal packing-cases, flourishingly directed 'to sir harry scattercash, bart., nonsuch house, &c.

From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Surtees, Robert Smith

Outdoor rustic people have not many ideas, but such as they have are hardy plants, and thrive flourishingly in persecution. 

From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Stevenson, Robert Louis