unthriving

Example Sentences

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The few European settlers stick close to the seacoast, to the unthriving port of Esperanca, cyclone-destroyed every seven years.

From Time Magazine Archive

It had, in fact, a wasted, unthriving look, like its master.

From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

The monastery continued in this unthriving state till the dissolution of those concerns; when, according to Dugdale, the abbey near Gloucester was valued at 648l. 19s. 11d. and this in Monmouthshire at 71l. 3s. 2d.

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

The labourer, the mechanic, the unthriving tradesman, the servant without work, may not only find employment, but are absolutely wanted here.

From The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland by Ward, Harriet

He stopped short and looked at the brick wall of the terrace, faced with shallow arches, meagrely clothed by a few unthriving creepers, with an ill-kept narrow flower-bed along its foot.

From Under Western Eyes by Conrad, Joseph