| By the 1790s he had left the baker's trade to become a tanner and evidently prospered as a master artisan. |
| When it was totally gutted by fire 10 years later it was rebuilt and prospered. |
| They knew plenty of personal pain and grief, but their country was inviolable and it prospered. |
| Those in the middle of society, whether yeomen farmers or tradesmen, prospered. |
| The only jarring note in all of this is that while Dublin has prospered, the regions have been almost starved. |
| A lot of men and women left this country when times were hard and prospered in foreign lands. |
