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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Flourish

Flourishes like a green bay tree.
—Anonymous

Flourished … like scripture-trees called bay.
—Robert Browning

Flourishing as a Banyan-grove.
—Thomas Carlyle

As cedars beaten with continual storms, so great men flourish.
—George Chapman

Flourishes like the mountain oak.
—Agnes Repplier

Flourish as a branch.
—Old Testament

Flourish like an herb.
—Old Testament

Flourish like grass of the earth.
—Old Testament

Flourish like the palm tree.
—Old Testament

As a flower of the field so he flourisheth.
—Old Testament

Flourishing as the flowers in May.
—Lewis Wager