These villages lying along our coast have thriven because they have engaged solely in one industry, the fishing industry, night and day.
The farmer and the producer of agricultural produce has lately thriven, and rightly thriven, and we are all indebted to him.
He and his family have thriven upon the proceeds of banditry for centuries.
Our national industries have thriven in the past because men have come to the front by their own energy and skill, and because the fittest of these men have emerged.
We have thriven very largely as a traffic centre for the productions and the commercial activities of many other peoples who have worked all over the world.
The public health services and the education services have thriven and have grown to their present dimensions because of the stimulus of the percentage grant system.
While the larger farmers might have been assisted by the growing of sugar-beet, the smallholder has thriven in a much larger proportion than the larger farmer.
London, which is still the greatest town in the world, has thriven owing to its having been a free port; it is the largest shipping centre in the world.
