How To Use Prodigality In A Sentence
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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
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Nature is prodigal in its approach to fertility (witness the huge number of sperm in any ejaculation), but we no longer need that prodigality.
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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.
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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.
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The president failed to implement tax cuts during the palmy days: now his prodigality will force him to impose tax increases.
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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.
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The Venetian comedy also includes a pair of social parasites living off the prodigality of the extravagant young couple.
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_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
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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
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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
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
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Gordon doesn't do short-term these days: he prefers to engage in long-term forecasts of future prosperity, to legitimise current prodigality.
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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
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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
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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
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The prodigality of the sea, ie in providing fish.
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
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I chose the Four Seasons George V, off the Champs Elysées, recently refurbished in its original 1928 decorative prodigality.
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
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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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The Count liked to find his own prodigality in others.
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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.
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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.
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This pleasing prodigality would be easier to browse if the columns of text were not so close-set.
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
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It would be some time before it bloomed and lit up the cliffs with its yellow-flowered prodigality again.
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Has she not bestowed on him every gift in prodigality?
I.6
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
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This, then, is the sense in which we take the word 'prodigality'.
The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
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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
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
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And make no mistake about it, the prodigality of this $6 million spectacle makes all of them look like niggards.
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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.
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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.
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality.
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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
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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
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They criticized the prodigality of the administration.
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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