First, the article gives a boundary to the object of this study.The research mainly pays attention to the city waterfronts, which had been thriven but now have been abandoned and ruined.
Two or three grave sedate-looking persons shook their heads, and left the inn, hinting, that if Gile Gosling wished to continue to thrive, he should turn his thriftless godless nephew adrift again.
We may as well assert that because a child has thriven upon milk, that it is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty.