Word Finder - prosperous

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Characterized by success

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Trading Babe Ruth was far more prosperous for the Yankees than for the Red Sox.

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Well off; affluent

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He was raised in a very prosperous household.

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Favorable

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He chose a prosperous lottery number that evening.

The state has good railway communications and a prosperous trade.

In the prosperous future, one group of people will rise to this challenge.

Finally, after 1900 they again became prosperous producers.

Bengal was prosperous, and free from external enemies on every quarter.

Live-stock breeding is likewise in a more prosperous condition.

The city wears a prosperous and busy appearance.

The years 317-307 were the most prosperous of his life.

This prosperous opening gave the key-note to Lagrange's career.

But this prosperous career came to an end, his health being shattered by an accidental dislocation of the right arm.

By the end of the 15th century it had become one of the most prosperous towns of Holland, on account of its fisheries and its cloth-trade.

In Persia Jews are often the victims of popular outbursts as well as of official extortion, but there are fairly prosperous communities at Bushire, Isfahan, Teheran and Kashan (in Shiraz they are in low estate).

His father, a prosperous merchant in Breslau, intended Ferdinand for a business career, and sent him to the commercial school at Leipzig; but the boy got himself transferred to the university, first at Breslau, and afterwards at Berlin.

Torrington is a prosperous manufacturing centre.

Brechin is a prosperous town, of great antiquity, having been the site of a Culdee abbey.

The early years of Albert's rule in Prussia were fairly prosperous.

These institutions survived the panic of 1837 and soon came to be recognized as among the most prosperous and the most conservative banks west of the Alleghanies.

But those who looked forward to quiet and prosperous times both for Ireland and for England were destined to be undeceived.

Owing to the variety and importance of its chief industries Aberdeen is one of the most prosperous cities in Scotland.

The establishment of an orderly administration, one outcome of which was a general fall of prices that made the unwonted regularity of the collection of taxes doubly unwelcome, naturally excited a certain amount of misgiving and resentment; but on the whole the population was prosperous and contented, and under Lord Elphinstone (1853-1860) the presidency passed through the crisis of the Mutiny without any general rising.

Alfalfa, the Japanese soy bean and the wheat fields - which furnish the finest of pasture in the early spring and ordinarily well into the winter season - are the props of a prosperous dairy industry.

In some respects this expectation was not deceived; the years that followed 1360 seem to have been prosperous at home, despite the continued friction arising from the Statute of Laborers.

The east coast ports seem to have thriven under his rule, but Bristol was not less prosperous.

They were now for the most part letting out the soil to tenant-farmers at a moderate rent, and the large class of yeomanry created by this movement seem to have been prosperous.

The monarchy itself was popular, the country was prosperous and in good relations with the world, except for the increasing naval rivalry with Germany, and the consciousness of imperial solidarity had made extraordinary progress among all the dominions.

In 1833 he removed to Detroit, Michigan, where he became a prosperous dry-goods merchant.

A number of prosperous German colonies - the largest and best known of which are Blumenau, Dona Francisca, Joinville, Itajahy, Brusque, Dom Pedro and Sao Bento - are devoted chiefly to agriculture.

In the 18th century Dunfermline impressed Daniel Defoe as showing the "full perfection of decay," but it is now one of the most prosperous towns in Scotland.

The town is one of the most prosperous in the duchy, and has machine works, foundries, tanneries, sawmills, breweries, distilleries, and manufactories of tobacco, glue, candles and soap. There is also a considerable trade in wool, corn, wood, butter and cattle, and an annual cattle show and horse races are held.

To the east of Khotan, cities which were prosperous when visited by Song-yun had a century later fallen into ruins.

Though a plague carried off 10,000 of the inhabitants in 1376, the town seems to have remained tolerably prosperous until the 16th century.

The baths near Nish and Vranya are comparatively prosperous, while the beautiful surroundings attract visitors even from abroad.

It was highly successful and within a generation the production of rum became colonial New England's largest and most prosperous industry.

There are 15 churches in the city, some occupying the most conspicuous sites on the hills, all dating from the more prosperous days of the city's history, but all devoid of architectural taste.

Since that time municipal finance has been in a prosperous condition.

While the country districts remained fairly prosperous (agricultural and pastoral products increasing), the transit trade and the urban industries continued to decline.

Yet so far as secular affairs wen.t William seemed prosperous enough.

For the devices employed against the Scottish schiltrons of pikemen at Dupplin and Halidon, were the same as those which won all the great battles of the Hundred Years Warthe combination of archery, not with cavalry (the old system of Hastings and Falkirk), but with dismounted menat-arms. The nation, meanwhile prosperous, not vexed by overmuch taxation, and proud of its young king, was ready and willing to follow him into any adventure that he might indicate.

The condition of the realm had been stable and prosperous during and social the earlier years of Edward III., the drain on its re- effects of sources caused by heavywar-taxation havingbeen more than compensated by the increased wealth that arose from growing commerce and developing industries.

The villeins, as hard hit as their masters, resented the tightening of old duties, which in some cases had already been commuted for small money rents during the prosperous years preceding the plague.

Nevertheless the struggle turned gradually to the advantage of the laborer, and ended in the creation of the sturdy and prosperous farming yeomanry who were the strength of the realm for several centuries to come.

Johannesburg had grown into a great and prosperous city.

From that time onward his reign was tranquil and prosperous.

It probably accounts for her appearance as a goddess of seafarers, the bestower of fair weather and prosperous voyages.

In instruction he gives the first place to " that which may direct us to heaven," and the second to " the study of prudence, or discreet conduct, and management of ourselves in the several occurrences of our lives, which most assists our quiet prosperous passage through this present life."

Cupar is an agricultural and legal centre and a thriving and prosperous town.

Zadrugas were very prosperous, as they had always a sufficient number of hands at command, and their members combined to obtain implements and cattle.

His reign (1842-1858) was quiet and prosperous, and the country made remarkable progress in culture and wealth.

Born to a prosperous Massachusetts family in 1821, Clara displayed an early interest in nursing by caring for her younger brother after a bad fall made him an invalid.

Marash is prosperous, and has a large trade in Kurd carpets and embroideries.

Sturla was born and brought up in prosperous times, but his manhood was passed in the midst of strife, in which his family fell one by one, and he himself, though a peaceful man who cared little for politics, was more than once forced to fly for his life.