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Councillors told us that in order for wild flowers to flourish the rich alluvial silt must be removed.
Food should be kept in the fridge because mould cannot flourish at a temperature below five degree centigrade.
Desire and jealousy flourish at the margin of what is knowable, just beyond the limits of what Pandosto can see.
On the contrary, after a quiet interlude, she is back with a flourish of unlifted, curvaceous, middle-aged bankability.
Sea campion, thrift and bird's-foot trefoil flourish here alongside many rarer plants such as sea kale, sea pea and sea heath.
An over-eager fellow taster twirls his glass with a flourish and sends four deadly thimblefuls of Pinot Noir flying in your direction.
The awfulness of it all is a matter of fact and no one feels the need to flourish a lot of adjectives to describe their feelings.
This will create the right conditions for wildlife to flourish like voles, skylarks and meadow pipits.
It just meanders along on nothing more than a song and a flourish of some pretty costumes.
This occurs when colonic bacteria accumulate above the obstructing lesion and flourish in a nutrient medium.
Murphy, in his own way, has battled on to flourish in a harsh sports environment.
May impropriety and bawdiness grow and flourish and evolve into lusty, heartfelt words to shake the very foundations of those scared by language.
I was mesmerized by the sound of its voice. He spoke in cursive writing, his words all flourish and curly letters.
For sericulture to flourish in the State, it was about time that its promotion started at the grassroot level.
She tossed her towel with a flourish and dug in her purse, bringing up, after some searching, a tube of lipstick.
Nobody wants the horrific slaughterhouse of war or the unbridled blackmail of terrorism but nobody wants to see evil flourish either.
But it is equally true that they only flourish in the twilight zone separating serious film from cheap entertainment.
The focus this time around is on the extreme environments of the deep ocean floor and the weird and wonderful denizens that flourish there.
The images shot forth in a flourish of colour and noise, startling him as a distant memory became unforgotten.
Only in very special circumstances could either castle or bourg flourish in the absence of nearby manors to sustain them.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In spite of the high mortality of the hexapod tribes, they flourish like the green bay-tree.
The inquisitors felt themselves to be above the law and all the old abuses continued to flourish as rankly as ever.
It is a product of love ties, but only as these flourish in a maturing intimacy.
He has no useless flourish in his manner, and none of the 'hifalutin' in his style.
Then the curtain went down with a grand flourish to a long roll from the snare drum.
She went from the parlor to the greenroom, and she went in with a flourish.
It looked as if life had abandoned the miserable little body, leaving but a little substance for fungoid growths to flourish in.
That such an unidealistic enterprise should not flourish on American soil is worth noting.
When he had finished this epistle, Rigaud folded it and tossed it with a flourish at Clennam's feet.
The Dictator was not an effusive man, and effusiveness did not flourish in his presence.
I say, rather than that apostates should flourish here, I will unsheathe my bowie-knife, and conquer or die.
Of him we have learned, that no commonweal may flourish, in which all things are common.
Haul ten or fifteen loads of sand upon a square rod, and plant a tree in it, and it will flourish well.
Jack answered by a graceful flourish of his hands, and a stave of another song.
And with a savage flourish of the pannikin he put it to his lips and drained it.
Although the visitation was unheralded by the customary flourish of trumpeting on dits, it was extremely successful.
It will not flourish in wet soils or on those of a peaty or sandy character.
At last he shall flourish for a little time, but the decimation of Neustria shall hurt him.
If the parent root be good, he thinks it will flourish in every soil, and perhaps acquire fresh vigour from transplantation.
The worms which live inside seem to flourish particularly well on the food they imbibe from pin oak.
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