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In my own family Spoonerisms flourished luxuriantly for many years, and we hardly spoke of the weather, for instance, without invoking their oblique charm: It's rotting with Spain, or perhaps more frequently (it was in the English Midlands, which as Hilaire Belloc said are sodden and unkind): It's roaring with pain.
They flourished on brinkmanship, buying companies only to dismember them and caring only for the chance to crush their opponents.
From the poet Sappho, who in the sixth century BC was the first to use the lyric to write subjectively and explore the range of female experience, to the Chinese polymath Pan Chao (Ban Zhao), who flourished around AD 100 as historian, poet, astronomer, mathematician and educationalist, the range is startling.
Jerusalem flourished during the early years of the Mandate.
The 18th century was not a good time for the native Irish, but the Protestant Ascendancy flourished.