Use prosperity in a sentence
Sentences starting with prosperity
- Prosperity followed, commerce with the world began, by and by rich mines of the noble metals were opened, immigrants flowed in, capital likewise. [5]
- Prosperity is said to be more trying than adversity, a theory which most people are willing to accept without trial; but few men stand the drying out of the natural sap of their greenness in the artificial heat of city life. [4]
- Prosperity had not softened him; it had given him an arrogance unduly emphasised by a reputation for rigid virtue and honesty. [11]
- Prosperity would cease, he declared. [9]
- Prosperity and power had made them blind and arrogant. [9]
- Prosperity is the best protector of principle. [5]
- Prosperity is pink, and so was Mr. Spence, in two places, --his smooth-shaven cheeks and his shirt. [9]
Sentences ending with prosperity
- Such a deal would make it easy for a big firm to pour in a big cash capital and jump L. A. L. up to enormous prosperity. [5]
- It would be worth to the nation a hundred years purchase of peace and prosperity. [7]
- I used to wonder if, in the Brandon attitude of mind at this period, there were not just a little envy of such unclouded prosperity. [4]
- The father, for whose blessing he longed, and who was to have been gladdened by his advancement, had journeyed far away and must henceforward be the foe of the sovereign to whom he owed his prosperity. [10]
- He was called upon, in this hour and in the church his father had helped to found, to make the supreme payment for the years of financial prosperity. [9]
- Good places in trees and seats on rail fences sold for half a dollar apiece; lemonade and gingerbread-stands had great prosperity. [5]
- It was as though the nation were entering into a senseless conspiracy to kill prosperity. [9]
- As I recall these past seasons of our joint labors, I feel that they have been on the whole prosperous, and not undeserving of their prosperity. [3]
- Their affliction brought the Dryfooses into humaner relations with the Marches, who had hitherto regarded them as a necessary evil, as the odious means of their own prosperity. [8]
- Why is it that the heart hardens in prosperity? [4]
Short sentences using prosperity
- His prosperity was visible. [4]
- She had married Prosperity. [9]
- Her material prosperity is genuine. [5]
- Also, he had great prosperity. [5]
- Our own liberty and prosperity. [7]
- Too much prosperity. [9]
Sentences containing prosperity two or more times
- He believed in the gold standard, for one thing; in the tariff (left unimpaired in its glory) for another, and with a wave of his hand would indicate the prosperity of the nation which surrounded him,--a prosperity too sacred to tamper with. [9]
- The Republican party realizes that the Northeastern is most vitally connected with the material interests of this State; that the prosperity of the road means the prosperity of the State. [9]
- In the nature of things it is a matter of the deepest concern to the whole Republic, for the prosperity of every part is vital to the prosperity of the whole. [4]
- A man who hasn't had much experience, and doesn't think, is apt to measure a nation's prosperity or lack of prosperity by the mere size of the prevailing wages; if the wages be high, the nation is prosperous; if low, it isn't. [5]
- It is now business hours, and longings for material prosperity rise in his mind, and be goes and pours water over Shiva's symbol; this insures the prosperity, but also brings on a rain, which gives him a fever. [5]
More example sentences with the word prosperity in them
- During the earliest years of the new century the political atmosphere had changed, the public had shown a tendency to grow restless; and everybody knows how important it is for financial operations, for prosperity, that the people should mind their own business. [9]
- The prosperity they would seem to indicate is a pretence. [5]
- Of the millions who tremble before him, not one prays or offers sacrifice of his own free-will for the prosperity of the monarch. [10]
- With the prosperity which he made attend his work he changed the character of the enterprise, and with Fulkerson's enthusiastic support he gave the public an art journal of as high grade as 'Les Lettres et les Arts', and very much that sort of thing. [8]
- The hapless city which dark Hades ingulfed really belonged to Antony, for in the days of its prosperity he was its founder. [10]
- What clean clothes, what good faces, what tranquil contentment, what prosperity, what genuine freedom, what superb government. [5]
- He uses his wealth, Wallis says, to maintain the prosperity of the nation! [9]
- A sale of twenty-five sets a day meant prosperity on paper, but unless capital could be raised from some other source to make and market those books through a period of months, perhaps even years, to come, it meant bankruptcy in reality. [5]
- Jeff gave prosperity to Stone's Landing and navigation to Goose Run, and the toast was washed down with gusto, in the simple fluid of corn; and with the return compliment that a rail road was a good thing, and that Jeff Thompson was no slouch. [5]
- He has come to Kentucky to show her the way to prosperity and glory. [9]
- To-day it seemed to him not only desirable, but quite possible, to win in battle at their head a land which they could love and where, in freedom and prosperity, they could become the able men he desired to make them. [10]
- The people received their Father William with joy, and the unwearied champion of liberty, in the midst of the exultation and rejoicing that surrounded him, labored for the future prosperity of the city. [10]
- Because he feels the weight of a tremendous responsibility on his shoulders, because he knows if it weren't for him and men like him upon whom the prosperity of this nation depends, we'd have famine and anarchy on our hands in no time. [9]
- The Territories of the Union are generally in a condition of prosperity and rapid growth. [7]
- As I read the times of Elizabeth, there was then greater prosperity and enjoyment of life among the common people than fifty or a hundred years later. [4]
- Everywhere prosperity, everywhere the strings of life pulled taut, signs that energy had been straining on the leash. [11]
- I think that the secret of his high prosperity lies elsewhere. [5]
- To our tourists the place was saturated with his presence, but the new generation cares more for its smart prosperity than for all his romance. [4]
- But many of the laity, who wanted their nebulosities fresh, admired his doctrine and adopted it, and it attained to great prosperity in spite of the hostility of the experts. [5]
- Nature never spares the individual; we are always balked of a complete success; no prosperity is promised to our self-esteem. [6]
- Napoleon has augmented the commercial prosperity of France in ten years to such a degree that figures can hardly compute it. [5]
- The prosperity of the cathedral on these valuable bones set all the other churches in the neighborhood on the same track; and one can study right here in this city the growth of relic worship. [4]
- A whimsical question, that shocked her, irresistibly presented itself: was it not Prosperity that she had promised to love, honour, and obey? [9]
- I and friends that lie with me founded and secured the prosperity of this fine city, and the stately bantling of our loves leaves us to rot in a dilapidated cemetery which neighbors curse and strangers scoff at. [5]
- Is it doubted that it would restore the national authority and national prosperity and perpetuate both indefinitely? [7]
- I don't know that Henderson changed much, accented as his grasping selfishness was on occasion; prosperity had not impaired that indifferent good-fellowship and toleration which had early gained him popularity. [4]
- The clan was sufficient unto itself, satisfied with a moderate prosperity and a continually increasing number of descendants. [9]
- When I do speak, I shall take such ground as I deem best calculated to restore peace, harmony, and prosperity to the country, and tend to the perpetuity of the nation and the liberty of these States and these people. [7]
- And there are some exceptions to this general material prosperity, in its result to the working classes. [4]
- And while my solicitude for the workmen was not so great as his and Mr. Durrett's, I was concerned as to what would happen to us if those twin gods, the Tariff and Prosperity, should take their departure from the land. [9]
- Even if it should turn out reasonably well, still I regard it as ruin to the prosperity of an ephemeral book like a novel, to be much talked of beforehand, as if it were something great. [14]
- When the storm shall be past he shall find us still Americans, no less devoted to the continued union and prosperity of the country than heretofore. [7]
- Preachers, whose sensational sermons are as widely read as descriptions of great crimes, moralized on Henderson's career and Henderson's palace, and raised up everywhere an envied image of worldly prosperity. [4]
- These merry mortals seemed to lull themselves carelessly in the secure enjoyment of peace and prosperity, and how blue the sky was, how warmly and brightly the sun shone! [10]
- Yet they are scarcely so great as the difficulties of those who upon the battle-field are endeavoring to purchase with their blood and their lives the future happiness and prosperity of this country. [7]
- I regret to say I have been unable to give personal attention to this subject--a subject at once so interesting in itself and so extensively and intimately connected with the material prosperity of the world. [7]
- If he is respected, esteemed, and liked where he is stationed, he can exercise an influence which can extend our trade and forward our prosperity. [5]
- Let this terrible record of lack of employment and misery be compared with the prosperity under Republican rule. [9]
- He has no public morals; he has no private ones, where his party's prosperity is at stake. [5]
- Don John would prove in the future, by his care for her prosperity and comfort, that he did not forget her. [10]
- They'd ruin our prosperity, if we'd let 'em. [9]
- He desired the prosperity of his countrymen, partly because they were his countrymen, but chiefly to show to the world that free men could be prosperous. [7]
- The throne and prosperity of Egypt are worthy of greater sacrifices. [10]
- With all this prosperity in the country we can't handle the freight. [9]
- The expansiveness of prosperity has a like effect, though the moralist is always piping about the beneficent uses of adversity. [4]
- Higher wages, material prosperity alone will not suffice to satisfy aspirations for a fuller self-realization, once the method by which these aspirations can be gained is glimpsed. [9]
- They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should reappear in this fair land and commence their vocation, they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack. [7]
- It is the privilege of the novelist, without introducing into such a career what is called disaster, to satisfy our innate love of justice by letting us see the true nature of such prosperity. [4]
- The sanctity of private property is being menaced, demagogues are crying out from the house-tops and inciting people against the men who have made this country what it is, who have risked their fortunes and their careers for the present prosperity. [9]
- We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. [7]
- Its grandeur has outlived the high commercial prosperity and the political importance that made it a necessity, or rather a possibility. [5]
- Naturally we magnify our material prosperity. [4]
- He was more or less amenable, and he was prosperous, although definite news of that prosperity never came from him--Quicksands always knew of it first. [9]
- She was at one, now, with the prosperity that surrounded her: her purse no longer limited, her whims existing only to be gratified. [9]
- Philosophical Observation.--Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit. [4]
- And he had one quality that made him a favorite--a hearty enjoyment of the prosperity of others. [4]
- Thus, as Kit often said, his great misfortune turned out to be the source of all his subsequent prosperity. [12]
- He was one of those Americans whose habitual conception of life is unalloyed prosperity. [8]
- On the majority of them you couldn't rely in prosperity, but in misfortune you couldn't do anything else. [11]
- In the heyday of the steamboating prosperity, the river from end to end was flaked with coal-fleets and timber rafts, all managed by hand, and employing hosts of the rough characters whom I have been trying to describe. [5]
- The outside aspects of the place suggested the presence of a modest and comfortable prosperity--a general prosperity --perhaps one might strengthen the term and say universal. [5]
- He was full of the glow of its prosperity when he met Margaret Vance at the reception. [8]
- It is one of the blessed compensations of life that in times of prosperity we do not remember our miseries. [9]
- The rising waters of Prosperity closed over him. [9]
- But the wrecks of precious virtues, which had been covered with the waves of prosperity, came up also. [6]
- So that part of our little domestic drama is over, and we can only wish the pair that is to be all manner of blessings consistent with a reasonable amount of health in the community on whose ailings must depend their prosperity. [6]
- All the evidences of his prosperity, shown in his greater freedom of living, were sore trials to her. [4]
- They have even now prosperity enough to keep them in good condition, and offer the most attractive residences for quiet families, which, if they had been English, would have lived in a palazzo at Genoa or Pisa, or some other Continental Newburyport or Portsmouth. [6]
- Every citizen can now end his days in prosperity and comfort. [10]
- Some people can not stand prosperity. [5]
- Mr. Crewe did not hesitate to say that the prosperity of the farmers had risen as a result of his labours at Wedderburn where the most improved machinery and methods were adopted. [9]
- Mr. Worthington did not deem it dignified or necessary to state that the railroad to which he referred was the Truro Railroad; and that he, as the largest stockholder, might indirectly share that prosperity with Brampton. [9]
- For I could not but feel that the ostentatious and unconcealable prosperity of "the States" over-shadows this part of the continent. [4]
- There will be no lack of fire to cook lentils, and doubtless you may have a bit of mutton, too; for we celebrate to-day the birth of the good god, the son of the sun; may life, health, and prosperity be his! [10]
- In the two newspapers referred to lay the secret of Hawkins's growing prosperity. [5]
- Nor was it new to me; this cult of prosperity. [9]
- We had a national philosophy that measured prosperity in dollars and cents, included in this measurement the profits of liquor dealers who were responsible for most of our idiots. [9]
- He was and must be just the man to whom the interests, principles, and prosperity of the country might be safely intrusted. [7]
- I have traveled much, I have seen all parts of our glorious union, but I have never seen a lovelier village than yours, or one that has more signs of commercial and industrial and religious prosperity --(more applause). [5]
- We have had much prosperity in the world, my wife; we have had neither death nor dishonour; we--" "If this isn't dishonour, father, what is? [11]
- Three lutes indicate much good fortune, two lutes and one mast good fortune and moderate prosperity, one pair of arms and two lutes misfortune, followed by happiness, and so forth. [10]
- And in our modern mythology, he might have stood for the god of Prosperity. [9]
- Much as we might deplore the political system that had grown up, we had to acknowledge, if we were consistent, that it was the base on which our prosperity was built. [9]
- Here, too, I met Major Serre, the bold projector of the great lottery whose brilliant success called into being and insured the prosperity of the Schiller Institute, the source of so much good. [10]
- Her husband had meanwhile become Agent of the Chippering Mill, and she strongly suspected that his prudent reticence on the state of his finances was the best indication of an increasing prosperity. [9]
- I do not mean gain party-wise, but in political morals and general prosperity. [4]
- You will secure material prosperity, or both, by worshiping him. [5]
- We require a man to take care of our commercial prosperity. [5]
- That word, Prosperity, made a deep impression on me, and I recall the certain reverential emphasis he laid on it. [9]
- The nation was looking to the forming of new bends of union, and a long course of peace and prosperity seemed to lie before us. [7]
- It does rather look as if in a republic where all are free and equal, prosperity and position constitute rank. [5]
- I wish you long life and prosperity individually, and pray that with the perpetuity of those institutions under which we have all so long lived and prospered, our happiness may be secured, our future made brilliant, and the glorious destiny of our country established forever. [7]
- The emphasis was laid on development, or rather on the resulting prosperity for the country: that was the justification, and it was taken for granted as supreme. [9]
- This awakened and kept alive in the busy city and the country bleeding for years in severe conflicts, that lofty aspiration and effort, which is its own reward, and places eternal welfare far above mere temporal prosperity. [10]
- He was a journeyman cooper, and worked in the big cooper-shop belonging to the great pork-packing establishment which was Marion City's chief pride and sole source of prosperity. [5]
- That same morning, Jethro, whose memory was quite as good as Ephraim's, found a little shop tucked away in Cornhill which had been miraculously spared in the advance of prosperity. [9]
- Yet here religion itself became sensible, and wore the garb of prosperity. [9]
- Her life in its spreading prosperity seemed more and more shallow. [4]
- It expects thrift, it expects prosperity, but its foundations are in the moral and spiritual life. [4]
- I object to it as a dangerous dalliance for a free people--a sad evidence that, feeling prosperity, we forget right; that liberty, as a principle, we have ceased to revere. [7]
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