Indeed, as trendy shops proliferate, it begins to resemble the Upper West Side of Manhattan, as an old Aspen hand noted, though styles and prices run more toward Paris.

Hotels, restaurants, and shops have proliferated, extending a warm welcome and the best of Lakeland hospitality to ever-growing numbers of visitors.

The slabs are imported, but the counter tops are made in the United States, and the shops that do the work are proliferating rapidly.

The principal areas were in the Baixa and along the Chiado district, where shops, tobacconists shops, cafés, bookstores, clubs and theatres proliferated.

And the worse they were to wear, the more people had to buy to keep themselves shod, and the more the shops proliferated, until the whole economy of the place passed what I believe is termed the Shoe Event Horizon, and it became no longer economically possible to build anything other than shoe shops.

Itinerant dealers spread their wares on blankets along the broken pavement across from the temple, and more--permanent shops proliferate in the sunless alleyways along the river.