Usage examples for Throve
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And then he gat another great spear, and smote down twelve knights, and the most part of them never throve after. – Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I (of II) King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table by Thomas Malory
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What son ever revolted even from the worst father, and throve in life? – Lucretia, Complete by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Young Schuber was an exception; he throve as a butcher in the old French market, and courted and married the young Eva Kropp. – Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable