thrivingly

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So, for a week or more, Tom went on thrivingly enough, and became a general favourite in the town.

From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Kingsley, Charles

Being possessed of some money, he resolved to abandon his evil courses, and set up a greengrocer’s shop in the Rue Rambuteau, which went on thrivingly for some time.

From Dumas' Paris by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

Ornamental trees—the broadleafed horse-chestnut, the elm so lofty and bending, the graceful but infrequent willow, and others whereof I know not the names—grow thrivingly among brick and stone.

From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Ornamental trees—the broad-leafed horse-chestnut, the elm so lofty and bending, the graceful but infrequent willow, and others whereof I know not the names—grow thrivingly among brick and stone.

From Sights from a Steeple (From "Twice Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

And in the present case I have laid the child at another man's door, and will never own him—if he doesn't grow up more thrivingly than I hope for.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund