How To Use Prodigal In A Sentence

It is true: but liberality baulkes, and feares covetousnesse and niggardize, more a great deale then prodigallity; so does zeale lukewarmnes and coldnesse, more then too much heate and forwardnesse; the defect is more opposite and dangerous to some vertues, then the excesse. A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich
The parable Jesus told about the prodigal son shows us what love means.
But his prodigality, which is excessive, after a time brought him to London; and the bishop imagined that, with his help, my scruples would at last be conquered. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
A second concern is the ‘deficit doesn't matter attitude’ being bandied about by certain prodigal U.S. politicians.
In Jesus' story of the prodigal, the father welcomes his boy home be redefining what it means to belong to the family.

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Although William Beckford wrote a Gothick romance as reckless and immoderate as himself, his life of epic prodigality would arrest attention had he not written a single line.
I regarded _tragic_ knowledge as the most beautiful luxury of our culture, as its most precious, most noble, most dangerous kind of prodigality; but, nevertheless, in view of its overflowing wealth, as a justifiable _luxury_. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
These are our prodigal sons and daughters. Times, Sunday Times
Far from the wanton prodigal that she had seemed, Sarah turns out to be a faithful keeper of promises - even when they impinge upon (what she had believed to be) her greatest happiness.
They came back on a parade float of prodigal love and public money, promising entertainment, nostalgia and success.
By the standards of wilderness activities such as backpacking, sea kayaking is ridiculously prodigal of weight and space. From Sea To Shining Sea
The parable of the return of the prodigal son showed the way. Times, Sunday Times
The prodigal son has returned. The Sun
Renouncing these prodigal sons and attempting to lay them at the door of the west is shirking responsibility.
This pleasing prodigality would be easier to browse if the columns of text were not so close-set.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
He stole from the Federal Government, at a prodigal increase of salary, its star specialist in livestock breeding, and by similar misconduct he robbed the University of Nebraska of its greatest milch cow professor, and broke the heart of the Dean of the College of Agriculture of the University of California by appropriating Professor Nirdenhammer, the wizard of farm management. CHAPTER VI
And it looks as if we will have a long wait before the prodigal son returns again to play in Scotland.
Wudao juvenile spring wind, Tears of the prodigal son who bloodshot.
Do not provoke prodigal son, artistic young and middle - aged men.
They came back on a parade float of prodigal love and public money, promising entertainment, nostalgia and success.
It would be some time before it bloomed and lit up the cliffs with its yellow-flowered prodigality again.
Has she not bestowed on him every gift in prodigality? I.6
His prodigal disposition of the box of matches impressed most of them as reckless dare-devilism; his haste, anxiety, and a single instance of mild profanity told others of his viciousness. The Daughter of Anderson Crow
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
This is the homecoming, the return of the prodigal sons to the family fold.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
This, then, is the sense in which we take the word 'prodigality'. The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
We're like a prodigal son but we want to come back and get some fatted calf,’ she said.
Caesar, or Christ, that is the question: the vast, attractive, skeptical world, with its pleasures and ambitions and its prodigal promise, or the meek, majestic, and winning figure of Him of Nazareth?
At this point, Leih Tseih reveals his prodigal past to Ku Yum.
How this will play out, especially given the frequency with which Americans and other prodigal consumers already clog more modern equipment, is one big unknown.
The prodigal returned to his hometown with a loathing for it, and only a little less for his family. Times, Sunday Times
An old fan-maker having remarked that such a prodigal would soon bring his wife to beggary, father Guillaume prided himself _in petto_ for his prudence in the matter of marriage settlements. At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
The Count liked to find his own prodigality in others.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
Even the sport most apt to have a prodigal star, tennis, rarely has a 19-year-old dominate in the men's game.
As a prodigal, Tom is forever annoying Sid, his priggish, elder half brother.
And make no mistake about it, the prodigality of this $6 million spectacle makes all of them look like niggards.
When we read the praises bestowed by Lord Penzance and the other illustrious experts upon the legal condition and legal aptnesses, brilliances, profundities and felicities so prodigally displayed in the Plays, and try to fit them to the historyless Stratford stage-manager, they sound wild, strange, incredible, ludicrous; but when we put them in the mouth of Bacon they do not sound strange, they seem in their natural and rightful place, they seem at home there. Is Shakespeare Dead?
All this comes as a prodigal act of supererogation: Merely confronted with Shakespeare's poetic diction and iambic pentameter, few cast members manage to keep their heads above water.
I regarded _tragic_ knowledge as the most beautiful luxury of our culture, as its most precious, most noble, most dangerous kind of prodigality; but, nevertheless, in view of its overflowing wealth, as a justifiable _luxury_. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
When it comes to love, God is the great prodigal - extravagant, a spendthrift, and oblivious to cost.
This includes not just creditors but, above all, the little man who is forced to keep his meager savings in the form of cash, i.e., paper money open to plunder by the prodigal which is the consortium of the banks and the government.
I will say nothing of those prodigious prodigals, perdendae pecuniae, genitos, as he [1885] taxed Anthony, Qui patrimonium sine ulla fori calumnia amittunt, saith [1886] Cyprian, and [1887] mad sybaritical spendthrifts, Anatomy of Melancholy
She is either a very prodigal woman, or richer than she would be thought, by her buying of the best things, and laying out much money in new-fashioned pewter; and, among other things, a new-fashioned case for a pair of snuffers, which is very pretty; but I could never have guessed what it was for, had I not seen the snuffers in it. Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S.
He recognises me, after 17 years: the prodigal's homecoming.
The parable of the prodigal son conveys at a conscious level a message about the need for forgiveness and acceptance.
First there was Wolverine: Prodigal Son, the Marvel/Del Rey book which attempted to "mangify" the character by turning him into a generic angsty shonen hero -- thereby robbing everything that made him interesting to begin with -- and now there's Iron Man: Armored Adventurers, which imagines Tony Stark not as gadabout playboy but nerdy youth. Teenage armor: A review of the new Iron Man cartoon | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
All the family went to the airport to welcome home the prodigal son.
She there appears surrounded by the luxuriance of vegetable life: she pours forth her bounty with a profusion which the partizans of utility would call prodigality, and covers the earth with a splendour of beauty, which serves no other purpose than to minister to the delight of human existence. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.
When he returned after winning the contest to his one-bedroomed home in a government building in central Dharavi, he was treated like a long-lost prodigal.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
Catching Nefret's wandering eye, his lips curled in acknowledgment of the absurdity of his presence: the prodigal son, the black sheep. LORD OF THE SILENT
The genius in his works, in his deeds, is necessarily a prodigal.
The hand is self - addressed as no other organ in the animal kingdom, and it has a prodigal inventiveness permitting choice also unmatched in other living creatures.
Of course, as the Self-annointed Second Coming (no pun intended) of the Prodigal Son, maybe Frank has spent a fair amount of time covered by Santorum and, hence, is not perturbed. Think Progress » Santorum excuses Graham’s anti-Muslim comments, calls them ‘reasonable.’
Team coach Tim Murphy had no doubt that their prodigal first half wastage (they shot ten wides to Ballygunner's two) was critical in determining the outcome.
Beside the little plateau a rocky basin of roughly the same shape and dimensions caught the thundering water in its downward rush, tossing it high, splashing and spraying, breezing falling flowers and mist with prodigal liberality.
He, with a noble goodness all his own, took infinite delight in bestowing to prodigality the treasures of his mind and fortune on the long-neglected son of his father's friend, the offspring of that gifted being whose excellencies and talents he had heard commemorated from infancy. I.2
Kakutani on A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years by John Richardson: "As John Richardson reminds us in the third installment of his magisterial and definitive biography, Picasso not only worshiped the gods Dionysius, Priapus and Mithra (the god of light and wisdom), but also regarded himself as their confrère — an artist so prodigally talented, so daring and so virtuosic that he could reinvent the universe. An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
She plunged into her apostrophe with most self-sacrificing vigor at the beginning of the scene, and was prodigal in the use of her voice in its early moments; but when the culmination of its passion was reached, in what would be called the stretto of the piece in the old nomenclature, she could not respond to its increased demands. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
To the prodigal son, they said their goodbyes - in such unaffectionate language that the reconciliation Rooney may hope for will never happen - before they gave voice to the mightiest of roars.
He is continuing to build up his panel in trial matches and gave a trial to a few newcomers or returning prodigals at the weekend.
The narrative is as compelling in the form of a 14th century ivory casket as it is in a 19th century lithograph by the Kellogg brothers or James Tissot's series The Prodigal Son in Modern Life, which tells the tale in the context of modern shipmen. Menachem Wecker: Five Prodigal Son Art Trends for Father's Day
Yo, bible bashing book dad, your bastard prodigal is a man of science. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Year's Best Science Fiction 05th Annual Collection - Gardner Dozois
As Mauss perceptively noted, the gift economy enhances the authority of the most prodigal giver, not of the most aggressive hoarder.
Mr. Tully plays the prodigal, hirsute and nearly mute football hero Cornelius Rawlings , who returns to the family farm and his misfit brothers: Amos (Onar Tukel), a recluse who exorcises demons in grotesque illustrations, and Ezra ( Robert Longstreet ), a religious nut and crossdresser who flutters about like an obsessive mother hen. Bombshells and Boxers
Epistle III, to Lord Bathurst, deals with the use of riches, which is understood by few, neither the avaricious nor the prodigal deriving happiness from them.
Return of the prodigal son was great to watch. The Sun
Poor William of Occam (whose logical razor is supposed to cut out unnecessarily prodigal assumptions) must be turning in his grave at the thought of such a multiplication of entities.
The genius in his works, in his deeds, is necessarily a prodigal.
She had been mothered and sistered and brothered by these farmer folk with a very prodigality of friendship, and to-day she realized more than ever with positive exultation that she was brawn of their brawn and built of their building. Rose of Old Harpeth
They criticized the prodigality of the administration.
Slowly, as the prodigal sons returned from the West, galleries began to develop, new painters emerged, and some kind of climate was created for art.
Let it be noticed that this is a thoroughly Calvinistic parable in that the prodigal was a son, and could not lose that relationship. The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
This overenthusiasm for wilderness prodigals is counterproductive and helps foster a misleading sense of ideological purity in environmental politics that is not supported by the historical record.
To burn the bones of the king of Edom for lime, + seems no irrational ferity; but to drink of the ashes of dead relations, + a passionate prodigality. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
And I received the welcome of a prodigal in my house.
He identifies the parable of the Prodigal Son as a story which has profoundly shaped Christianity.
Perhaps he's collecting his thoughts as prodigal homecomer WN.com - Articles related to Adam Lambert’s Album Preorder Tops Amazon Sales Chart
I felt like the returned prodigal - wasteful, superfluous.
But Britons, as a people, are equally brave and generous; prodigal of their blood and treasure where there are just calls for its expense; and by no means niggards of those rights, liberties and privileges, that make the subjects of Britain the envy and admiration of the universe.
In it were their letters of obligation, acknowledging her latest distribution of money and clothing and prodigal advice.
[1892] Catamidiari in Amphitheatro, as by Adrian the emperor's edict they were of old, decoctores bonorum suorum, so he calls them, prodigal fools, to be publicly shamed, and hissed out of all societies, rather than to be pitied or relieved. Anatomy of Melancholy
The word prodigal, from Greek , doesn’t mean “wayward”; it means “wastefully extravagant.” God Attachment
Yes, there are delights; but "life is real, life is earnest," and a meal of _algarroba_ beans (the husks of the prodigal son of Luke XV.) is not any more tempting if eaten under the shade of Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America
A Danish composer whose catalogue contains almost 700 works, Niels Viggo Bentzon was a dynamic creative artist of prodigal talents.
My mother was back - eight months with me and another five back home, and she had returned like the prodigal, no longer self-indulgent in her grief.
Though he never mentions him, Tony Hendra has much in common with another prodigal, a man born two generations before him: Malcolm Muggeridge.
As they were both very conscious people, they recognized in themselves some sense of this, and presently drolled it away, in the opulence of a time when every moment brought some beautiful dream, and the soul could be prodigal of its bliss. Their Wedding Journey
In their midst stood the prodigal son returned, the towering figure of Sajid Mahmood, built for bowling fast if ever anybody was.
A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
Liberality in princes is regarded as a mark of beneficence, but when it occurs, that the homely bread of the honest and industrious is often thereby converted into delicious cates for the idle and the prodigal, we soon retract our heedless praises. An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
Gordon doesn't do short-term these days: he prefers to engage in long-term forecasts of future prosperity, to legitimise current prodigality.
The parable of the return of the prodigal son showed the way. Times, Sunday Times
They celebrate the return of their not-so-prodigal sons in some considerable style.
It's the prodigal royals we remember who so often give history its spice. Times, Sunday Times
Do not provoke prodigal son, artistic young and middle - aged men.
In the end it proved to be, but only after the Londoners had threatened to spoil the party and upstage the return of the prodigal son.
Nature is prodigal in its approach to fertility (witness the huge number of sperm in any ejaculation), but we no longer need that prodigality.
prodigal in their expenditures
Life under any conditions is filled with idiotic excursions, false goals, prodigal waste, disappointed loves, galling personal insufficiencies, half-witted associations.
Trying to prove to his father that his music would get him somewhere, the prodigal son sent home copies of all his records. Times, Sunday Times
Lucy Moore writes with a glad eye of the prodigality of unrestrained royalty, the full-blown excess that in the end wearied the more realistic Queen Victoria.
Above all, the Executive must curb its own prodigal spending.
I say, it is but a specimen or taste of those numerous, or rather innumerable instances which might be produced; two of which especially I had thought to have spoken something more fully to; namely, the calling covetousness, good husbandry; and prodigality, generosity. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
It was discouraging how few of the world's prodigal comforts were nowadays available for enjoyment. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
If this were the _hired_ class, the prodigal was a sorry specimen of humility. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
Epstein, an internationally exhibited photographer with half a dozen previous books to his credit, is a prodigal son.
The president failed to implement tax cuts during the palmy days: now his prodigality will force him to impose tax increases.
There was an exuberance or prodigality of sweetness about the mere act of living which our race finds it difficult not to associate with forbidden and extravagant actions.
we are still prodigally rich compared to others
For Rilke, the father's all-encompassing love is what drove the prodigal son away in the first place and what threatens to overwhelm and destroy him on his return.
This has to be the end for his prodigal son, or it will be the end of him. Times, Sunday Times
Nearly everywhere there are signs that the prodigal economy is staggering home from its three-year slough of despond.
The parable of the prodigal is a picture of the latter kind. The Parables of Our Lord
His reluctance to utter the word ‘sorry’ in this case might seem odd because Blair used to be notorious for his prodigal use of the apology.
The Venetian comedy also includes a pair of social parasites living off the prodigality of the extravagant young couple.
When it comes to love, God is the great prodigal - extravagant, a spendthrift, and oblivious to cost.
Prodigal servings of pure saturated (often fluorescent) color are fattened further with a rich welter of tints, tones and shades.
These are our prodigal sons and daughters. Times, Sunday Times
His wit was to him "as riches fineless"; he saw no end of his wealth in that way, and set no limits to his extravagance: he was communicative, prodigal, boundless, and inexhaustible. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution
Call me reckless, prodigal even, but I've been spending up big on electricity.
The Mighty alone can afford to be merciful and therefore where else can the prodigal son return but to the parental doors of the Government?
He stole from the Federal Government, at a prodigal increase of salary, its star specialist in livestock breeding, and by similar misconduct he robbed the University of Nebraska of its greatest milch cow professor, and broke the heart of the Dean of the College of Agriculture of the University of California by appropriating Professor Nirdenhammer, the wizard of farm management. CHAPTER VI
This look says that the wearers, whatever they do or say, must be treated like prodigal children rather than responsible adults, and exempts them from all the usual pressures of conformity.
Jaded by the excesses of a prodigal youth in English society at home and on the Continent, he is at first merely anxious to relieve his ennui by touring the countryside.
It is short-sighted and a prodigal use of limited resources.
In a book so prodigal of riches one finds, unbelievably, neither an index nor a glossary.
_Academic_ original after Raleigh's consignment to the Tower, -- in that fierce satire into which so much Elizabethan bitterness is condensed, under the difference of the reckless prodigality which is stereotyped in the fable, we get, in the earlier scenes, some glimpses of this The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
Did I think I'd find a ticker-tape parade laid on for the return of the prodigal son?
83 But this vain prodigality, which the prudence of Diocletian might justly despise, was enjoyed with surprise and transport by the Roman people. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The film revolves around a prodigal father figure, Royal Tenenbaum, played by Gene Hackman auditioning for the Oscars.
Edom for lime seems no irrational ferity: but to store the back volumes of Mr Bottomley's "John Bull" a passionate prodigality. ' On The Art of Reading
The mythological god of riches guards the fourth circle, which holds the prodigal and the greedy.
This has to be the end for his prodigal son, or it will be the end of him. Times, Sunday Times
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
I know that each day ye do things to pleasure me, things prodigal or such little things as giving me pouncet boxes. The Fifth Queen Crowned
Nature is prodigal in variety, but niggard in innovation.
This is the perfect time for the prodigal daughter to return to her roots.
On the other hand, Justin's father, the prodigal father, was singing and grooving in $2,000 suits that you know Justin is going to be paying for a week from now.
It is doubtful if our own rust-bucket Chancellor, with his prodigal handouts, redistributist mania and fiscal incontinence could outdo this supposedly Republican administration.
Privately, he thought he had been a trifle hard on the lad, and but for his obstinacy -- which he called firmness -- he would have recalled the prodigal. The Opal Serpent
In reckless extravagance he outdid the prodigals of all times in ingenuity… and set before his guests loaves and meats of gold, declaring that a man ought either to be frugal or be Caesar.
`Forget it, Father, I'm no prodigal son and I don't need a fatted can of soup or a bed. THE MANANA MAN
In any event, if the ‘marquise’ had a weakness for little boys, when she threw open to them the hypogean doors of those cubicles of stone in which men crouch like sphinxes, she must have been moved to that generosity less by the hope of corrupting them than by the pleasure which all of us feel in displaying a needless prodigality to those whom we love, for I have never seen her with any other visitor except an old park-keeper. Within a Budding Grove
The prodigal son has returned. The Sun
It was billed as the return of the prodigal son, the homecoming that would put fire in the bellies of the young Borders recruits and bums on seats at Netherdale.
the parable of the prodigal son
The owners will declare an impasse this fall or next, then impose a salary cap and invite the prodigals to cross a picket line to join career minor leaguers in what will be a decidedly inferior confederation.
Further, prodigality and meanness are excesses and defects with regard to wealth; and meanness we always impute to those who care more than they ought for wealth, but we sometimes apply the word 'prodigality' in a complex sense; for we call those men prodigals who are incontinent and spend money on self-indulgence. The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
Thanks to the lurgy and having to stop to get Prodigal Mage pages sorted I'm running a tiddy bit behind, but I'll catch up. Well, that was fun!
That night, having effected a cure, the alluring Eva is discovered in delecto flagrante with the young prodigal and promptly repudiated by the elders.
Return of the prodigal son was great to watch. The Sun
This guitar slinger and singer whiled away his childhood in this very neighbourhood; and the prodigal son returns from some busy road trips with Adam Gregory to perform this night.
prodigal praise
But the 21-year old heroin-addicted punk rocker from southern England wasn't the only prodigal.
The Tories are non-starters as a party of government and the Lib Dems aspire to be more prodigal spendthrifts than Gordon Brown.
The redbud was burning on the Southern slopes; the turf was springing, fresh and green; dandelions were dappling the grass like golden coins sown by a prodigal; violets were beginning to peep from the shelter of leaves caught along the fence-rows; and some favored peach-trees were blushing into pink. Gordon Keith
The prodigal returned to his hometown with a loathing for it, and only a little less for his family. Times, Sunday Times
The foogin 'prodigal RETURNS" made me laugh out loud. Morning Owl
The presumptuous weak who mistake the wish of distinction for the workings of talent, admire the eccentricities of the gifted youth who is reared in opulence, and, mistaking the prodigality which is only the effect of his fortune, for the attributes of his talents, imitate his errors, and imagine that, by copying the blemishes of his conduct, they possess what is illustrious in his mind. The Life Studies And Works Of Benjamin West Esq
He cited the biblical parable of the prodigal son, in which the older sibling is envious of his dissolute brother, whose return home sparks a big party. Greed may not be good for the economy, but envy is worse
Go hard on those sugar farmers, or should I say, go hard on that prodigal federal government.
Thanks to the lurgy and having to stop to get Prodigal Mage pages sorted I'm running a tiddy bit behind, but I'll catch up. Well, that was fun!
To counteract these evils, which were great enough to have ruined any European state in a couple of years, there was, however, the marvellous prodigality of nature -- a bounteousness and richness in the yield of the soil and the depths of the earth hardly equalled in any other part of the world, and in consequence princely fortunes were accumulated in an incredibly short space of time. The Dominion in 1983
Like the prodigal, he grew that ashamit o 'what he had dene, that he gied up his kirk, and gaed hame to the day's darg upon his father's ferm. Salted with Fire
Nature is prodigal of her gifts.
There are plentiful signs -- take the "corban" passage, for instance, still more, the details of the Prodigal Son -- of the same deep and tender thinking as we find in the most authentic sayings about marriage applied to the parental and brotherly relation. The History of David Grieve
The prodigality of the sea, ie in providing fish.
And what has brought about the return of the prodigal son more than a year after he stepped out of the limelight?
It is some turnaround and now they have the return of the prodigal son to complete it. The Sun
Therefore the soul falls below its own level and disintegrates, like the prodigal son reduced to feeding on pigswill.
It is some turnaround and now they have the return of the prodigal son to complete it. The Sun
As far as characterisation is concerned, this one's interesting because in Prodigal Mage I already know some of them -- Asher and Dathne, for example. Sunday morning giggle ...
When the prodigal is brought home to his father it is meet that we should make merry and be glad (Luke xv. 32); and when the marriage of the Lamb has come let us be glad and rejoice (Rev. xix. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
They know the life of a prodigal is a dead-end street. Christianity Today
Retaining the centralized banking systems that prevail worldwide today with their monstrously prodigal paper instruments is no answer.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
They suggest Michel's wide wastes of prodigal sky and duneland with their winding roads that have no end, his ever-shadowy stretches of cloud upon ever-shadowy stretches of land that go their austere way to the edges of some vacant sea. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
As a small boy, Stephen showed few signs of prodigal genius; he was slow to learn to read but liked to take things apart - a way of ‘finding out how the world around me worked’.
Then we went out to my local and it really was like the prodigal son had returned: applause, warmth, girls coming up to me, a guy buying me a drink.
I chose the Four Seasons George V, off the Champs Elysées, recently refurbished in its original 1928 decorative prodigality.
As well as being a showcase for the fat knight, a contemporary lord of misrule, and a not-so-subtle piece of Tudor propaganda, it must also tell the story of the transformation of the Prince of Wales from prodigal son into the puissant monarch who will shortly fulfil every English ambition and declare waron France. Henry IV Parts 1 and 2
In the struggle with a prodigal there is the reminder of our own sinfulness when we sin in our anger- we recognize our spiritual povert y. 12 ways to love your wayward children. What would you add to the list? - 22 Words
Trying to prove to his father that his music would get him somewhere, the prodigal son sent home copies of all his records. Times, Sunday Times
It's the prodigal royals we remember who so often give history its spice. Times, Sunday Times
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
By the husks on which the prodigal is said, in his hunger, to have fed himself, we are not to understand exactly what is meant by the English word husks, but a certain fruit, the fruit of the carob tree, which grows in pods and has a mealy and sweet taste. Sermons for the New Life.
This is the homecoming, the return of the prodigal sons to the family fold.
In reckless extravagance he outdid the prodigals of all times in ingenuity… and set before his guests loaves and meats of gold, declaring that a man ought either to be frugal or be Caesar.
The prodigal ex-hippie who returns to an Essex village after blagging his way through eight years on the scrounge is still as charming and feckless as ever.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
The prodigal returns home to marry his high school sweetheart and to mind the store, but the lure of rock and roll ultimately calls him away from responsibility.
To burn the bones of the King of Edom for lime seems no irrational ferity: but to store the back volumes of Mr Bottomleys John Bull a passionate prodigality. XI. Of Selection

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