How To Use Prosperous In A Sentence

Our ambition is to build a prosperous, inclusive and outward-looking country. Times, Sunday Times
The relationship with her mother, Zippora, née Assur, the daughter of a prosperous merchant family, who had never attended school, became more and more difficult. Fanny Lewald.
The country was on the verge of becoming prosperous and successful.
This is just a short note to wish you all a very successful, productive and prosperous New Year.
I remind the Minister that Gateshead is far from being one of Britain's most prosperous towns.

Behind Luff has soccer association president after all the tribulus prosperous uneven standard support.
Their city, known as the `Athens of the Midwest," was civic-minded, proud, and increasingly prosperous. ISAAC CAMPION
The inscription above the arch, "To a happy and prosperous entrance," seemed a mockery in the old douanier days, when delays and extortions vexed the soul of the visitor, and produced a mood anything but favourable to the enjoyment of the Eternal City. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
Rising waters would uproot prosperous farmers from the fertile riverbanks, forcing an estimated 100,000 people to move to higher ground where they could no longer plant corn and wheat.
Rather a major problem is that the financial gap between the prosperous and poorer classes has been widening.
The southern region of the country was once the prosperous breadbasket for Senegal.
We want to ensure that our children's children inherit an economically prosperous country.
The happy or unprosperous event of any action, is not only apt to give us a good or bad opinion of the prudence with which it was conducted, but almost always too animates our gratitude or resentment, our sense of the merit or demerit of the design.
The rich volcanic soil had once more encouraged the growth of a prosperous people, who had spread over vulnerable areas. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
Gray, a prosperous-looking lawyer in his tasteful dark suits, asked for the presidential apology and brought the survivors to Washington.
It was neat, paved and, if not prosperous, at least presentable.
This was a heavily populated region of numerous towns and nucleated villages, with dispersed patterns of landholding, small parishes and manors, and political power shared between the nobles, rich merchants, and a prosperous gentry.
Our alliance will remain indispensable to the goal of a century that is more peaceful, more prosperous and more just. The Sun
The rest of the country might perceive areas like the Lake District to be prosperous.
The reason for pursuing this tack is my belief that unless we firmly understand the force of events which has led us to the current pass, we are very unlikely to seize the present opportunity to rebuild a more certain and more prosperous future. Lessons from Current Miseries
Suburbs sprawled out to provide homes for the newly prosperous.
Congratulations on your new job - good for you! While we will miss you and have fond memories of working with you, we wish you well and hope you attain all the success you deserve. Your loyalty and work ethic have been an inspiration to us all. Have a prosperous life and keep in touch!
Even the old parliamentarians hailed the return of Charles, notwithstanding it was admitted that the protectorate was a vigorous administration; that law and order were enforced; that religious liberty was proclaimed; that the rights of conscience were respected; that literature and science were encouraged; that the morals of the people were purified; that the ordinances of religion were observed; that vice and folly were discouraged; that justice was ably administered; that peace and plenty were enjoyed; that prosperity attended the English arms abroad; and that the nation was as much respected abroad as it was prosperous at home. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
These changes provoked the anger of William Cobbett, who wished to return to a golden age when England was still a land of prosperous yeomen farmers and contented cottagers.
This was a prosperous time for Bavaria and there developed a flourishing art market, concentrating on conventional, unchallenging bourgeois genre pieces.
New Delhi and Islamabad will have to forget the bitter past, which is the main determinant of their perceptual distortions for a better and prosperous future.
It is our belief that improvements in health care will lead to a stronger, more prosperous economy.
To support his argument, he quotes opinion polls showing that people in prosperous societies are often unhappy with their lives.
If they were successful, it supposedly meant they would have a prosperous life together.
The Privy Council wrote to Henry that they had visited Mary often recently "whoe god be thanked is in prosperous health and convalescence. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
The place used to be very prosperous, producing high-quality wheat in ancient times.
Economically speaking, payment by installments makes a double-win between the buyer and the seller, and it stimulates industry and business to be prosperous.
This is why cities in which more citizens have traveled around the world are typically more beautiful and prosperous cities, and why cities whose citizens are closed-minded and insular are ugly and poor.
James Ellington was a butler and a caterer, but he was prosperous by African-American standards of the time, and extensively self-educated thanks to the library of his employer, a doctor.
A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen of a prosperous city, he is much more likely to recover.
It is only through the" domestication "of NEPAD in our national and regional development plans, and through our collective efforts, that we will be able to translate the vision and objectives of this African-owned process into a prosperous reality. Notes from South Africa
The first is a consequence of the fact that for the foreseeable future there will be little mass consumer market for non-essentials outside the main coastal cities and a few other prosperous parts of the country.
Imagine, then, that we are the guests of the charming wife of a successful counsel ( 'advocaat en procureur') -- Mr. Walraven, let us call him -- settled in a large and prosperous provincial town. Dutch Life in Town and Country
Rising house values make homeowners feel more prosperous and encourage them to spend more. Times, Sunday Times
President Obama's steadiness rallied the nation at a time of severe economic crisis, saved Detroit, rescued a spiraling Wall Street, stanched the flow of blood in terms of the mortgage crisis and rising joblessness - while also achieving what no president since FDR has managed to do: bring health care reform that will finally stop penalizing tens of millions of the sick in the world's most prosperous economy - including our children! Nigel Hamilton: Rahm Is Going
They recognise that we have a lot to offer as a stable, prosperous democratic country. The Sun
The initiative was taken by Bafuor Osei Akoto, a prosperous, go-ahead cocoa farmer of Kumasi.
In brief, his life and death were such that I could not blame them who wished the like, and almost to have been himself: almost, I say; for though we may wish the prosperous appurtenances of others, or to be another in his happy accidents, yet so intrinsical is every man unto himself that some doubt may be made whether any would exchange his being, or substantially become another man. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
The arabs (sometimes called "turcos", since they emigrated from the Ottoman Empire) have pretty well assimilated into the Mexican mainstream, and -- having been generally financially prosperous emigrants -- are prominent in Mexican business and industry. Anti-semitism in Mexico
We will be more prosperous and more secure when we are less dependent on foreign sources of energy.
We have survived prosperously without the interference of your kind!
"We must ensure that we do not let this unprecedented moment in time go unutilized for the dream of a strong, robust and prosperous India", affirmed the President.
The owners of early 19 th-century New England grist mills were usually rather prosperous men, and like most of the population at that time, the majority were farmers.
Switzerland is a very prosperous country. Times, Sunday Times
There is a marked difference between those living in prosperous wheat belt and wine country, compared with those in declining steel towns.
The EU's political andeconomic activities in Central and Eastern Europe, including its plans to open EU membership to a number of new countries in Europe, will help promote a democratic and prosperous post-Cold War Europe and will complement NATO expansion. Fact Sheet On The European Union Eu
After the first two years the financial position improved as farming moved into more prosperous times.
It has caused them to be unprosperous for three years.
They drank French champagne out of crystal flutes and toasted to a long and prosperous future.
The once prosperous town has hemorrhaged manufacturing jobs over the last 15 years.
A prosperous business year has enabled us to enlarge our offices and put in them an immense fireproof safe to protect our clientage. A History of American Law
In the case of trusts based on prosperous urban centres, there was a considerable increase in the participation of smaller savers.
Proclaimed one particularly prosperous-looking woman who floated past our table on the way to raise some boat dealer's bottom line, "It's about time we spent on ourselves again ... being miserly is no fun at all! Lita Smith-Mines: The Ebbs & Flows of the Economy
On the 19 of December, 1606, we set sail from Blackwall, but by unprosperous winds, were kept six weeks in the sight of England; all which time, Master Hunt our preacher, was so weak and sick, that few expected his recovery.
These are among key milestones on the way to creating a world-class prosperous region by the end of the decade.
His father was the president of the Carborundum Corporation, and the family was prosperous and socially prominent in the community. Not the Girl Next Door
After their misfortunes the family slowly became prosperous.
She was a prosperous merchant and creative free spirit, a poet and a wordsmith.
Migration, for example, may be an enforced personal tragedy following persecution or a voluntary choice for a more prosperous life.
They preferred to go out generally without the falconer, a Dutchman, who had been taken into the service of Sir Nicholas thirty years before when things had been more prosperous; it was less embarrassing so; but they would have a lad to carry the "cadge," and a pony following them to carry the game. By What Authority?
Li Yen is the signature restaurant of The Ritz-Carlton and has the snug atmosphere of a private Cantonese club, albeit one enlivened with the bright, cascading notes of a yang quin, or traditional hammered dulcimer, and the chatter of prosperous Chinese families spinning their lazy susans. Kuala Lumpur Update
By the last quarter of the nineteenth century the majority of the once-prosperous artisans and craftsmen were reduced to the ranks of lowliest laborers - the barbers and washermen, the servants and scavengers.
I decided I wanted to help Japanese people live as prosperously as Americans. Doing Ikea One Better
Hers, I thought, must be a curious soul, where in spite of a strong, natural tendency to estimate unduly advantages of wealth and station, the sardonic disdain of a fortuneless subordinate had wrought a deeper impression than could be imprinted by the most flattering assiduities of a prosperous The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
People are more prosperous but they don't feel at ease. Times, Sunday Times
The son of a prosperous Hindu trader, Bhai Pheru, Guru Angad was an ardent devotee of the Hindu goddess Durga.
But even by marriage Jhabvala was an outsider, since her husband was a Parse, a member of a generally well-educated and prosperous ethnic group whose position in Indian society is not dissimilar to that of the Jews in Europe. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
Congratulations on your new job - good for you! While we will miss you and have fond memories of working with you, we wish you well and hope you attain all the success you deserve. Your loyalty and work ethic have been an inspiration to us all. Have a prosperous life and keep in touch!
There prosperous new managers live in gracious homes with neatly manicured gardens.
“A prosperous evening to you, milady,” Z says to Mrs. Smithe. Camo Girl
In a prosperous country like this, no one should go hungry.
For this columnist flying the free, prosperous arc from Tokyo to Delhi means an 18-hour schlepp via Hong Kong and Bangkok.
His career was prosperous till 1152, when he assaulted the coarb of Patrick St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh
And if I had been an impecunious younger son of the gentry, or a farmer struggling to survive an agricultural depression, or a soldier discharged from the army with little prospect of finding a good job, or a poorly paid artisan in a grimy and unsanitary city, I might well have decided to take the risk and opt for the bright, prosperous future and healthful climate that Poyais appeared to offer the adventurous. A Talk with David Sinclair, author of The Land That Never Was
And the people became more prosperous, more assertive, more individualist.
We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.
She'd had two children and was apparently very prosperous, having married an orthodontist from upstate.
Others are economic migrants seeking a prosperous new life. The Sun
All the academic evidence suggests fear of debt deters people from less prosperous backgrounds.
The series was set in Wapping, in what has since become a gentrified landscape, home to prosperous businesses and City types who dwell in its newly built de luxe homes.
She might have been a prosperous milliner from the Commercial Road, and she had a meek man along who wore the husband's air of depressed responsibility. The Convert
Blessed He has made me, wherever I may be; and He has enjoined me to pray, and to give the alms, so long as I live, and likewise to cherish my mother; He has not made me arrogant, unprosperous.
In the medieval period the shire was fertile and prosperous.
I hated the voice from behind me, that cut through the wondrous strains of music being wafted to us in that green and prosperous neighbourhood through powerful speakers.
refitted", her old trip being restored, and that she afterwards made for her new owners many and very prosperous voyages. The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete
Prosperous companies erected their own guildhalls and endowed churches dedicated to the patron saint of their crafts, with chapels for their use.
By means of the trust and cooperation among peoples, nationalities can be more solidary, interdependent and prosperous. Moreover, we can establish and develop equality, unity and mutual ass...
He and his mother lived in genteel poverty as the wards of a prosperous (if somewhat tightfisted) uncle. Happy Birthday Randolph Bourne « Antiwar.com Blog
Her life, begun not unprosperously, had come down to this -- to a mean prison and a long, ignoble bondage. Vanity Fair
a prosperous family
Long before Europeans arrived, it has been suggested, Australia was a prosperous land, with a high material standard of living.
When I got downstairs, a prosperous-looking yuppie was waiting on our doorstep. DEAD BEAT
When I got downstairs, a prosperous-looking yuppie was waiting on our doorstep. DEAD BEAT
Everyone seemed happy and contented and prosperous. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The idealists planned and strove and shouted that their city should become a better, better, and better cityand what they meant, when they used the word better, was more prosperous, and the core of their idealism was this: The more prosperous my beloved city, the more prosperous beloved I! Chapter 28
a prosperous moment to make a decision
The second eclipse highlights money, making you more prosperous but also helping you agree on a fair way to share out cash and other responsibilities. The Sun
Their citizens individually have been happy and the nation prosperous. America Past and Present
The family lived at first in prosperous circumstances, wintering in Smyrna and summering at the seaside village called Skala.
The country demands that people should work hard to make it prosperous and defend it at the time of aggression from the foreign forces.
For all that, trade between Chalced and duchies remained lively and prosperous. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
The absence of a prosperous merchant class meant that Sheffield had few fine houses or public buildings.
Rural areas were more prosperous on their broader measure, despite being on average less wealthy. Times, Sunday Times
With our best youlldied greedings to Pep and Memmy and the old folkers below and beyant, wishing them all very merry Incar-nations in this land of the livvey and plenty of preprosperousness through their coming new yonks from jake, jack and little sousoucie Finnegans Wake
And Ed Prince is the chief executive officer of his own prosperous and admired corporation.
It is a prosperous society of states - productive, diverse, but subject to waves of disruption and containing pockets of unobserved and unrelieved grimness.
A man of the right temperament gains greatly by a temporary estival transplantation; and if Johnny always contrived to seem dominant and prosperous at home, he now seemed lordly and triumphant abroad. On the Stairs
For three decades after the war it was relatively prosperous. Times, Sunday Times
He was esteemed by his neighbours and unostentatiously prosperous. IN LOVE AND WAR
Everyone seemed happy and contented and prosperous. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Most of the aquamaniles in the National Museum were used in churches, but these two were used at banquets in prosperous homes.
Full of happy and prosperous family members? Times, Sunday Times
The key elements of this "moderately prosperous society" are a quadrupling of per-captia gross domestic product, an improved legal system, and the achievement of sustainable development ... all by 2020. Eric C. Anderson: Sino-U.S. Relations: Reconsider the Fundamentals
It was a little touch of penny-pinching that showed the house had been built for really prosperous people.
There appeared to be a growing gulf between the prosperous south and the declining towns of the north.
On a cold blustery March day in 1839, when she was nineteen, Susan moved with her family two miles down the Battenkill to the little settlement of Hardscrabble, later called Center Falls, where her father owned a satinet factory and grist mill, built in more prosperous times. Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
Decent folk who'd left behind the corrupt world - always somewhere to the east - came to a land of primeval beauty and promise and set about turning a little chunk of it into a nice, prosperous garden.
Umbrella making developed prosperously; they began to be painted with flowers and landscape scenes of various kinds.
Now we must begin the task of planning a prosperous future for our nation. Times, Sunday Times
There are widespread opportunities that Afghanistan can take advantage of to build such strong and prosperous local economies, including energizing the traditional Silk Road trade network, using the nation's mineral wealth to support economic development, putting neglected agricultural areas back into production at a time when world food resources are under increasing pressure, and restoring traditional handicraft production, especially hand-woven carpets. Edward Corcoran: Afghanistan: Time to Build
The next wave of immigrants came during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with the intention of repatriating after four or five years with enough capital to make themselves into prosperous farmers.
The mezzeria system of agriculture, which, if not absolutely the same, is extremely similar to that which is known as “conacre,” rendered the lot of the peasant population very far better and more prosperous than that of the tillers of the earth in any of the other provinces. What I Remember
But it was best to dismiss all things, he being so weak; to resign himself; all this had happened before, and had passed away, prosperously or unprosperously; it would pass away in this case, likewise; and in the morning whatever might be delusive would have disappeared. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance
Now, although Mr. and Mr. Bjornstam are hard-working and prosperous, they are still shunned, partly because of their foreignness and low class but mostly because the agnostic Miles has been "lippy" about the greatest nation in the country and the most perfect of its Main Streets. The Romance of Sinclair Lewis
A new prosperous middle class layer has emerged with no roots in the traditional way of life.
The good-natured teacher's high hopes of ending the term prosperously were thus suddenly crushed and he was about to give up in disgust when the better disposed pupils offered to take hold and repair the damage so far as possible and clean out the school room for the exercises, which they did. Living in Dryden: February 2004 Archives
We want to ensure that we remain a free and prosperous land of opportunity. Times, Sunday Times
Tomorrow night we should raise a glass and wish ourselves a happy and prosperous New Year. The Sun
Rising house values make homeowners feel more prosperous and encourage them to spend more. Times, Sunday Times
He is making the rounds of all the mystery conventions, taking bows for his long and prosperous career, which may be winding down a bit after all these years.
Sitting for a relatively prosperous rural constituency, political activism was a personal choice rather than a political necessity. THE GUARDSMEN
Between 1475 and 1550 existing markets for English broadcloths and other woollens grew rapidly, because the importing regions became more prosperous and had greater purchasing power.
The number of part-time or full-time film extras (or figurants) in Shanghai is not known but it is certain that their number is increasing rapidly as the entertainment business becomes more prosperous.
Â Springfield grew up in prosperous Hampstead in North London. Five People Born on April 16 | myFiveBest
Besides these strong performances there are some delicious ensemble scenes in which the absurdities of prosperous country life are sent up. The Times Literary Supplement
Gray, a prosperous-looking lawyer in his tasteful dark suits, asked for the presidential apology and brought the survivors to Washington.
Later, while working as a dairymaid on a prosperous farm, in a beautiful summer, she becomes blissfully engaged to Angel Clare, a clergyman's son.
As it happens, the title essay of the book is Mr. Rybczynski's attempt to fill out with fact the "fairy tales" he heard time and again about his parents 'fathers, one a prosperous banker and patriarch in interwar Warsaw, the other a philosopher and physicist in southeastern Poland who, in time, would withdraw from active life because of his troubled involvement with a married woman. At Home in a New World
a prosperous new business
The most ardently professional historians still sought to reach a broader public through lectures and multivolume histories that explained Britain's past to a prosperous nation. A World We Have Lost
Uruguay is a very thinly covered country, entirely settled from Europe in comparatively modern times; a grazing country, not ordinary agriculture, almost all pastoral pursuits, a very prosperous, a very hardy people, a little fond of turning their political differences into fights, but otherwise a stable people, bound to be heard from in an important way as the world grows older. A Trip Through South America
Each brings with it the promise of a more prosperous future. Times, Sunday Times
Her family lived prosperously in London, largely off her mother's properties in Ireland.
The Privy Council wrote to Henry that they had visited Mary often recently "whoe god be thanked is in prosperous health and convalescence. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
But this I may state in a sentence, that the greatest, probably the most prosperous, manufacturing industry that this country or the world has ever seen, has been suddenly and unexpectedly stricken down, but by a blow which had not been unforeseen or unforetold. Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1
Every day you are fatigued and disgusted with this cant, "The Carnatic is a country that will soon recover, and become instantly as prosperous as ever. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
The first is a consequence of the fact that for the foreseeable future there will be little mass consumer market for non-essentials outside the main coastal cities and a few other prosperous parts of the country.
Asian Indians are sometimes stereotyped in American society as industrious, prosperous, and professionally and educationally advanced.
Since these friars lived on alms, they gravitated to the towns, where citizens were prosperous enough to support them. RIDDLE ME THIS
The eighth of Ianuary, foure of the said 5. newcome shippes (God send them a prosperous voyage) set saile toward the Moluccas. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Lineage member Wang Mingyu, also known as Guojen, emigrated to Japan in 1868, and became a prosperous merchant in Kobe.
Overall, peasants do seem to have been more prosperous after the Restoration, with a rise in living standards and a fall in mortality.
In an exceptional feat of perverse alchemy he has, during his 22 years in office, changed gold into lead and ruined a once relatively prosperous southern African state.
The prosperous middle classes and the seriously rich will be largely indistinguishable to them. Times, Sunday Times
Hundreds of people have been arrested under the same section of the law, which also makes it an offence to "denigrate" the 79-year - old dictator, under whose rule since 1980 one of the most prosperous economies in Africa has been brought to its knees. ANC Daily News Briefing
Although it had once been a prosperous nation, it began to spiral downward after Samuel Doe's bloody coup in 1980.
In recent weeks, angry Chinese have reportedly taken to the streets not only in underdeveloped interior regions but also in prosperous coastal areas in the south of the country.
So let him not expel you both from the Garden, so that thou art unprosperous.
We have been laborious, contented, and prosperous; and if we have been reabsorbed by the mother country, in accordance with what I cannot but call the pusillanimous conduct of certain of our elder The Fixed Period
What she uncovers is an epidemic of unimaginable proportions within the world's most prosperous nation.
The English then sensibly carried out a conservative counter-revolution, restoring the monarchy and ushering in three centuries of gradual and prosperous transition to democratic liberty.
Heres wishing ALL the boats and crew a safe and prosperous opie season! The Green Boat
The Bush administration fanaticized about using shock and awe to "decapitate" the Iraqi regime, and then -- King Midas-like -- touching the country to make it prosperous, civil, and — most important for the Bush administration — compliant. Lew Rockwell: Iraq and Moral Corruption
Malaysia's transformation from an agrarian society to a relatively prosperous newly emerging manufacturing nation in five decades is impressive. Times, Sunday Times
The book traces the metamorphosis of this endangered ecosystem from rich wetlands to prosperous agricultural area, from saw grass and sloughs to sugar cane, winter vegetables and cattle.
We pass up into the mountains, leaving behind the slipping margin of the most prosperous nation on earth. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
During prosperous times, keeping reserves, such as money in the bank, instead of investing is seen as costly. Flexibility, Please : Law is Cool
May all people of goodwill today join together to work for a more just, a more healthy and a more prosperous nation and a peaceful planet. Christianity Today
There appeared to be a growing gulf between the prosperous south and the declining towns of the north.
Protestantism sat at ease, unmindful of schisms, careless of proselytism: Dissent was an inheritance along with a superior pew and a business connection; and Churchmanship only wondered contemptuously at Dissent as a foolish habit that clung greatly to families in the grocery and chandlering lines, though not incompatible with prosperous wholesale dealing. XII. Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home. Book I—Boy and Girl
Lordy massy, how prosperous everything does seem here!" he said, in musing tones, over his inevitable mug of cider; "so different from what 't is t 'our house. Oldtown Folks
Today, the greatest ally of obscurantism is the spiritually empty economism of our prosperous liberal societies.
She was a prosperous merchant and creative free spirit, a poet and a wordsmith.
They recognise that we have a lot to offer as a stable, prosperous democratic country. The Sun
Only in a prosperous and well-governed Britain can we strengthen the ties of our community.
Now that we are a little more prosperous, the habit of bringing a bottle seems to have dropped off.
Burma, so beautiful and prosperous 50 years ago, has relapsed into barbarity.
Even the smaller estimate is sufficiently impressive, but probably, in prosperous times at least, the higher is more nearly correct. Class-Consciousness and the 'Movies'
Their object was to save the underdog from sweating and exploitation by organizing him like his comrades, the prosperous artisans of the skilled trade unions. The Search for Justice - a history of Britain and the British people Volume III
Given that banking will remain a very important and generally prosperous business in the global economy, it would be foolish for Britain to suppress financial activity. Times, Sunday Times
Although his mother died when he was an infant, he was adored by his prosperous father.
Is a kind of alchymist or persecutor of nature, that would change the dull lead of his brain into finer metal, with success many times as unprosperous, or at least not quitting the cost, to wit, of his own oil and candles. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
Cairbré died after five years of most unprosperous royalty, and his son, the wise and prudent Morann, showed his wisdom and prudence by refusing to succeed him.
We want to ensure that we remain a free and prosperous land of opportunity. Times, Sunday Times
This is a prosperous country and the existence of poverty on its present scale is shaming. Times, Sunday Times
Sitting for a relatively prosperous rural constituency, political activism was a personal choice rather than a political necessity. THE GUARDSMEN
none too prosperous
The rogue was most probably one of the vagrants, and like a flash it entered his mind that the ropedancer, Kuni, who in her prosperous days, instead of eating meat and vegetables, preferred to satisfy her appetite with fruits and sweet dainties, might be the culprit. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
As a result, business there boomed, housing construction soared, and the area became quite prosperous.
England in the ninth and tenth centuries was a rich, prosperous, fertile land - and almost entirely unprotected.
The Bush administration fanaticized about using shock and awe to "decapitate" the Iraqi regime, and then -- King Midas-like -- touching the country to make it prosperous, civil, and — most important for the Bush administration — compliant. Lew Rockwell: Iraq and Moral Corruption
In the meantime, several distinctly unprosperous regions have reached the brink of total malarial collapse, virtually ruled by swarms of buzzing, flying syringes.
It is true that when one has driven up the private road, be the same a mere "boreen" or a "shplendid avenue," the bell is found to be broken, the knocker wrenched off, the blinds hauled up awry, and the servants hard to be got at; but the householder is prosperous nevertheless. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
He is so as a disciple of Carlyle, as a prosperous Englishman, not destitute of flunkyism, and also as a man whose very best power is that of passionately admiring individual greatness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864
But in the long term it is difficult to see prosperous patients settling for second-class status.

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