Sentence examples for Quite prosperous from inspiring English sources

Many of them grew quite prosperous as travelling tinsmiths and dealers in scrap.

Palermo was thus quite prosperous when it fell to the Norman adventurers Roger I and Robert Guiscard in 1072.

There are four hundred and fifty farmers in the Imperial Valley, some of them descendants of the pioneers and many of them quite prosperous.

It's also typical of Mr. Gingrich, who has become quite prosperous trading on his influence in Washington while simultaneously pretending he despises the city's essential nature.

Though at first quite prosperous, the Beethoven family became steadily poorer with the death of his grandfather in 1773 and the decline of his father into alcoholism.

It is a please-and-thank-you, let-me-help-you, low-speed-limit, low-unemployment, quite prosperous town, and nicer than most.

By that time, Sandy Ground was really quite a prosperous little place.

The city lives, from the Western point of view, inside out; the exteriors often talk poor when the interiors are quite snugly prosperous.

Here is a part of what Mr. Hunter relates: "When I came here, early in the eighteen-eighties … Sandy Ground was really quite a prosperous little place.

Chichester audiences tend to be elderly and prosperous though maybe not quite as prosperous as they would have been if banks and pension funds had steered clear of Enron.

They were beneficiaries of that act's preferences for certain categories of immigrants — engineers, doctors and other professionals — and by the late 1980s they were already quite settled and prosperous.