Some scraggy myrtles stood in broken pots, and nettles flourished in a corner.
He flourished Father Petre before the eyes of the people on all possible occasions.
'I'll provide for her, Sir!' and he flourished his ten fingers in the air, as if they were ten banks.
At any rate, the excavations conducted there have afforded proof that it flourished in the prehistoric period.
Both found their resources for this war separately to exceed the sum of their strength when the alliance flourished intact.
Nature conferred upon them bountiful rewards for their labour; trade and industries flourished, and the cities increased in splendour and strength.
How long such conquests last, is another matter; that they are achieved, is every-day experience, not even to be flourished away by Podsnappery itself.
But whether it was in the south, or the west or the north of Europe that letters flourished, it was always the convent or the monastery that was the home of learning and culture.
Altogether, the baker-man was terribly frightened; and when all the sixteen small Indians rushed from the bushes and flourished their tomahawks, he took to his heels and ran down the hill as fast as he could go!