Thus it would be idle in the main to expect a literary atmosphere among the houses which flourished in the heart of the city.
But Pontack and his eating-house flourished amazingly for all that.
And the Lord knew that virtue flourished in the heart of Noah.
Now the tribe of Shem increased and flourished under heaven.
It flourished everywhere; it was countenanced in the Scriptures of the older dispensation.
In Christian Europe poetry, philosophy, science flourished as they had never flourished in any preceding age, and they lay their richest tribute at the feet of Christ, the Divine King of the world.
A husky voice filtered through the vizor of Carnaby's helmet, as he flourished the sword in his hand.
I shan't hurt you yet," he declared with an under-lying threat, as he caught up the tongs and flourished them.
They fairly danced and flourished their heels, old folks and all.
Incubi flourished in mediæval belief, and can scarcely, indeed, be said to be extinct even to-day.
Because it had not flourished in the North there rose a notion that the Northerners would not fight.
If not the birthplace of what was called "stump oratory," in them that picturesque form of party warfare flourished most and lasted longest.
The system of prey amongst animals flourished throughout the whole of the pre- human period; and the adaptation of all plants and animals to their respective spheres of existence was as perfect in those early ages as it is still.
In those days there flourished farther down the Rhine the kingdom of the Netherlands, governed by Siegmund and Siegelind.
Norman felt unusually happy, he flourished his stick without attempting to beat Fanny, and shouted at the top of his voice.
Norman, however, instead of doing as his sister advised, flourished his whip more vehemently and shouted louder than ever, walking up and down and trampling on the flowers which had been scattered on the ground.
From the mosque Fernando speedily found his way to the university, and was soon lost in wonder at the rich intellectual life which flourished there.
The seventy libraries of Moorish Spain which flourishedin the twelfth century put to shame the dark ignorance of Europe, which in time rather from the Arab than from fallen Rome won back its enlightenment.
The last master to whose service Lazarillo attached himself was the Arch-priest of Salvador, in whose service he flourished exceedingly, and one of whose servants he married.
In France gold lacemaking was a prosperous manufacture at Aurrillac and Arras, at which latter place it flourished up to the end of the eighteenth century.
It was one of the earliest of pillow laces, and flourished greatly during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Upon his own deck Blackbeard was stamping to and fro, bellowing at his crew while he flourished a broadsword by way of emphasis.
Bill Saxby's eyes of baby blue were big and round as saucers as he wildly flourished his paddle as the only cudgel at hand.
In Italy and France, the practice of writing and circulating series of sonnets inscribed to great men and women flourished continuously throughout the sixteenth century.
Woodmancote, where the family of Visor or Vizard has flourished since the sixteenth century, is still pronounced Woncot.
And Buddhism itself, when it left India, went northward and flourished exceedingly in those same cities of the sandy plain, where the people talked and wrote a language of India for centuries after the birth of Christ.
Merv was in early ages a Christian city, and Christian congregations, both Jacobite and Nestorian, flourished at Merv from about A.
A beneficent institution, which might seem to belong to a higher civilization, is said to have flourished in this semi-pagan land.
The reign of Anne was distinguished not only by the brilliant successes of the British arms, but also on account of the number of admirable and excellent writers who flourishedat this time, among whom were Pope, Swift, and Addison.
ARI'ON, an ancient Greek poet and musician, born at Methymna, in Lesbos, flourishedabout 625 B.
The religious class of poems was the largest, and of these Caedmon's (flourished about 660) are the most remarkable.
ANEU'RIN, a poet and prince of the Cambrian Britons whoflourished in the seventh century, author of an epic poem, the Gododin, relating the defeat of the Britons of Strathclyde by the Saxons at the battle of Cattraeth.
Greek mathematician, statesman, and general, who flourished about 400 B.
Both of these writers flourished in the second half of the second century A.
The following authors deserve mention: Phaedrus, flourished about 40 A.
Not content with his official duties, he had further exerted himself to establish a Nautical School, and a School of Design, which under his able supervision flourished rapidly, and promised great benefits to the colony.
Doubtless the natives who had flourished under the nourishing care of the mission in its palmy days, wagged their heads wittingly when the brig Natalia met her fate.
It flourished in the early Fifties--this very German garden, the pride and property of Mr. Christian Russ.
Meanwhile the good fortune of Polycrates continued, and Samos flourished under his rule.
In the heart of the great library, battening on books, flourished a circle of learned literary critics, engaged in the study of Homer and the other already classical writers of Greece and supplying new and revised editions of their works.
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