The ferocity of the Turk flourishes in the streets, in his own house, in the seraglio--every where that he has a victim within his reach, and that it pleases him to destroy that victim.
The vast shallow waters provide a greatly enlarged theatre for the life of the time, and it flourishes enormously.
Then make fine traits round the letters and leaves, and flourishes from minium, with a pen, also the stuffs of dresses and other ornaments.
It flourishes in the most religious as in the most worldly circles.
The clan flourishes in such conditions of hunting life or of simple agriculture as were found among Australians and Indians, or among the Celts in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.
Its bald brutalism flourishes freely only when covered and disguised.
The angelica flourishes in the country of the Laplander, and of this vegetable he makes occasional use, not eating the roots, but the stalks and leaves, usually raw and without any preparation.
The celebrated Lacrymæ Christi vine flourishes beside land totally devastated by lava, as if nature here made a last effort, and resolved to perish in her richest array.
It is a common remark that literature flourishes best in times of social order and leisure, and suffers immediate depression whenever the public mind is agitated by violent civil controversies.
An Italian in shirt-sleeves in the wings at the side of the stage speaks their lines for them, with all the elocutionary flourishes which he can command.
He lays out new streets and arranges fresh festivals; trade flourishes under his rule, and the people find themselves well off, in spite of the many taxes laid upon them.
Flourishes of trumpets, almost lost in the stunning acclamations of the multitude, and the thunder of artillery, greeted her arrival at the Tower.
These martial flourishes were succeeded by the trampling of steeds, and fresh discharges of ordnance, and the next moment, a numerous retinue of horse and foot emerged from the gateway.
Fresh flourishes of trumpets succeeded ; and several lively airs were played by bands of minstrels stationed at different points of the court-yard.
Here the broad leaves of the wild plantains (Musa textilis) penetrate the soil among the broken rocks; and in moist spots the graceful bamboo flourishes in groups, whose feathery foliage waves like the plumes of the ostrich.
Scott assured me, with comic gravity, that the valiant little lion should be most honorably entertained; I hope, therefore, that he still flourishes at Abbotsford.
He does not write from the mere desire of covering paper, though sometimes he flourishes in one's face almost insolently the necessity he is in of setting down so many words as will fill a column in tomorrow's paper.
And yet it buds, opens its pretty yellow flowers, sheds its fine large drops of translucent gum, flourishes all the year round, and tempts with its prickly leaves as with richest herbage, the hungry camel.
It flourishes well at different altitudes and in different climes, from the temperate plains of Puebla to the hot, damp, lower lands of Vera Cruz and Oaxaca, and other Pacific-coast regions.
Robusta and liberica varieties of coffee do best in regions from sea-level up to 3,000 feet, while arabica flourishes better at the higher levels.
The town of Tarbert, in the guide-books and topographical dictionaries, flourishes considerably.
On the coast it flourishes very luxuriantly during the misty season; but during the months of February and March it is almost entirely dried up.
The mulberry-tree flourishes luxuriantly and without cultivation; but its fruit is not thought worth gathering, and it is left as food for the birds.
All the bells in Rome were ringing, and there was firing of cannons, and flourishes of trumpets, and military music.
Side by side with religious flourishes secular poetry, clothing itself in rhyme and metre, adopting every current form of poesy, and treating of every appropriate subject.
The evangel vainly announced to the poor of Judæa nowflourishes among the rich.
The gray fox flourisheseverywhere and grows to a rather larger size than in the United States, but he is remarkable for being very short-winded.
In a letter written July 27, after his visit to that county, he says, "The gospel flourishes in London.
After her ladyship's death the institution was removed to Cheshunt, about thirteen miles north of London, where it still flourishes under the presidency of the Rev.
The cause still flourishes there, and very many have been turned to righteousness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flourishes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
