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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Flourish
 
  Flourishes like a green bay tree.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Flourished … like scripture-trees called bay.
            —Robert Browning		  2
  Flourishing as a Banyan-grove.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  3
  As cedars beaten with continual storms, so great men flourish.
            —George Chapman		  4
  Flourishes like the mountain oak.
            —Agnes Repplier		  5
  Flourish as a branch.
            —Old Testament		  6
  Flourish like an herb.
            —Old Testament		  7
  Flourish like grass of the earth.
            —Old Testament		  8
  Flourish like the palm tree.
            —Old Testament		  9
  As a flower of the field so he flourisheth.
            —Old Testament		  10
  Flourishing as the flowers in May.
            —Lewis Wager		  11
 
 
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