Glochidiate and tomentose cacti of every shape flourished amid the wiry scrub grass, their umbellate flowers forming vividly colored crowns.

On an alternate Earth, an industrial civilization is flourishing amid an impending war between two bordering nations: the Kingdom of Honneamise and "The Republic".

But plant revolution came before the extinction of the dinosaurs and many of the hugest reptiles flourished for millions of years amid the flowers.

But logic doesn't always flourish amid the cross purposes of fight people.

Dark green ivy and golden saxifrage flourished amid the crenellations.

The mother flourished amid all this.

The Italian Renaissance flourished in small islands of such tolerance amid a patchwork quilt of fiefdoms run by local strongmen.

The N.R.A. has been perhaps the best example of a dynamic common to many special interest organizations: it flourishes amid adversity.

Creativity does not flourish amid chaos; it is not nurtured at all by an "anything goes" attitude or by insincere praise.

Printed canvases, once called "Berlin work" because they originated in Germany, flourished amid the so-called useful leisure ideals of the mid-19th century.