Sentence examples for town flourished from inspiring English sources

The town flourished under the counts of Hainaut.

During the Mormon period the town flourished as a stopping place for west-bound gold seekers.

Commius's town flourished, trading across Britain, Ireland and both Roman and Iron Age tribal Europe.

The town flourished in the Middle Ages and was the site of assemblies and councils under the Merovingian kings.

The town flourished, at least until the 1970s, when a long period of decline set in.In 1990 Tuzla bucked the Bosnian nationalist trend.

The town flourished during late Roman times, but it was attacked by the Vandals and destroyed by the Saracens in 828.

With the help of an admittedly second-class angel, George sees that, without his presence, the boring little town flourishes Dixieland jazz fills its streets, city lights glisten, the taverns are full, law enforcement is swift and capable.

New kingdoms and towns flourished, and travel by ship acted as a critical means of commerce and communication.

Anyone driving down Ninth Street, a grimly tattered boom-to-bust boulevard, suddenly encounters Fare & Square gleaming and bustling like a mirage, like the supermarkets in the middle-class towns flourishing farther off in the Delaware Valley.

The customers, all drawn by the bewildering rumour of a new book town flourishing in the industrial graveyard of a south Wales valley, included a woman from Sweden, a retired bookseller from Burton-on-Trent, and a man brought up in the town who could hardly believe the change.

The town, which flourished in pre-Roman and Roman days, became the seat of a bishop and a civitas (provincial capital) in the 3rd century.