All of these Captain Cook had the satisfaction of seeing in a flourishing state before he left the island.

We are not in a flourishing state of circumstances here, sir.

The colony has greatly progressed under their administration, and is now in a most prosperous and flourishing state.

And think of my beautiful breadfruit garden, all in such a flourishing state!

One of his most intimate friends was a merchant, who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty.

Despite his seemingly flourishing state, Alex's life is a mess.

His system achieved some degree of popularity within entomology, which was in a flourishing state at the time.

At length, however, they were unable to uphold the flourishing state constructed in the thirteenth century.

One says, "You have wrecked a flourishing state," another something else of the same kind.

The Scottish province was in a flourishing state when the religious revolution broke out and the convents were destroyed.