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