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Also the competition (as it's not all that hard to play)'s prodigious, even at youth orchestra level, so, in addition to playing something which almost often simply sounds flutey, it's very hard to get anywhere.
Ye same did rede a portion of his "Venus and Adonis," to their prodigious admiration, whereas I, being sleepy and fatigued withal, did deme it but paltry stuff, and was the more discomforted in that ye blody bucanier had got his wind again, and did turn his mind to farting with such villain zeal that presently I was like to choke once more. 1601
The prodigiously capable Louise, for instance, is weighing the relative claims upon her imagination of long jumping and bobsleigh.
There was nothing the matter with the director's plans on this occasion; every detail of the "freshet" had been made ready for with exactness and with prodigious regard to detail. Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies
The tide, too, which had hitherto favoured us, now turned against us and drove us to the eastward with prodigious rapidity, so that we were in great anxiety for the Wager and the Anna pink, the two sternmost vessels, fearing they would be dashed to pieces against the shore of Staten Land. Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced

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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up! Mark Twain
After I had observed every flower, and listened to a disquisition on every plant, I was permitted to depart; but first, with great pomp, he plucked a polyanthus and presented it to me, as one conferring a prodigious favour. Agnes Grey
And I have a prodigious memory. Times, Sunday Times
Laser discs can store prodigious amounts of information.
My prodigious (if I may humbly say so myself) drinking is coupled with insatiable eating.
The second hint is the prodigious torque output and low engine redline.
Let's just say that one thing all these women must have in common is a prodigious amount of energy. Times, Sunday Times
But the difficulty of going at what I call a rapid pace, is prodigious; it is almost an impossibility. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
An East Indiaman was once attacked by a sword-fish with such prodigious force that its "snout" was driven completely through the bottom of the ship, which must have been destroyed by the leak had not the animal killed itself by the violence of its own exertions, and left its sword imbedded in the wood. Harper's Young People, February 3, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
And these prodigious slabs of gneiss now lay amidst schistous marl and calcareous rock. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
Professor Ramsay has published an account of a downthrow in Anglesea of 2,300 feet; and he informs me that he fully believes that there is one in Merionethshire of 12,000 feet; yet in these cases there is nothing on the surface of the land to show such prodigious movements; the pile of rocks on either side of the crack having been smoothly swept away. X. On the Imperfection of the Geological Record. On the Lapse of Time, as Inferred from the Rate of Deposition and Extent of Denudation
By the early 1950s Minton, with his private income, flamboyant personality and prodigious talent, was a celebrity in the mould of today's Britart pack.
Apart from squandering the resources of a prodigiously gifted cast, the film's greatest shortcoming must be its inability to generate the merest scintilla of dramatic tension around its central narrative thread.
He was nineteen when his mother died in 1821 and his boyhood experiences would colour his whole prodigious output of novels, poetry and plays.
The alt-country singer/songwriter is notorious for his prodigious output as well as his colossal inconsistency but this tune is an absolute winner. Tuesday Tune: 'Halloweenhead' by Ryan Adams
He was nineteen when his mother died in 1821 and his boyhood experiences would colour his whole prodigious output of novels, poetry and plays.
Either she has prodigious persuasive powers, given most of big business voted remain. Times, Sunday Times
And so it came to pass that daily thereafter did we practise for an hour or so in the armoury with sword and buckler, and with every lesson my proficiency with the iron grew in a manner that Falcone termed prodigious, swearing that I was born to the sword, that the knack of it was in the very blood of me. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
A prodigious amount of backcombing and a preponderance of blondes created a fair few leonine manes but the effect was more catwalk queen than Lion King. Has the Little Black Dress finally fallen out of fashion?
I might stay up to watch Pacquiao muller Ortiz in five rounds, but Mayweather is not the guy to watch when you're already sleepy, prodigiously talented though he most certainly is. Floyd Mayweather Jr v Victor Ortiz - as it happened | Steve Busfield
The result was a graceless and prosaic performance that undersold her prodigious talents. Times, Sunday Times
He studies 'prodigious savants', the world's 100 or so brain-damaged people with superpowers: memory men, human calculators, speed draughtsmen. Times, Sunday Times
/[Page 394] /parlour is new-papered and painted, it should be done properly, and proper painting takes a prodigious time; but I will see somebody to-morrow, to speak at least concerning the outside. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Either she has prodigious persuasive powers, given most of big business voted remain. Times, Sunday Times
A gentle smile, decorous as the presence required, passed over the assembly, at a feat which, though by no means wonderful in a hyperborean, seemed prodigious in the estimation of the moderate Greeks. Count Robert of Paris
I was in great surprise at seeing the mouth of Unknown, so much surpassing in horror the jaws of upper Hell, I could hear a prodigious noise of arms, and loud discharges from one side, answered by what seemed to be hoarse thunders from the other; the rocks of Death, meanwhile, rebellowing the tumult. The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell
With the relish of a gormandizer it had taken more of its peculiar food than even its prodigious maw could assimilate. Omega, the Man
William R. Forstchen, his collaborator, is the author of more than 40 books -- a prodigious number -- and the title page of "Valley Forge" also acknowledges the work of Albert S. Hanser as a contributing editor. This revolution will not be copyedited
From the untractableness and prodigious strength of the buffaloes, it was both a tedious and difficult operation to get them on board. Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair. Charles Dickens
His written output was prodigious. Times, Sunday Times
There followed an appalling tensity; a prodigious gathering of force; a panic stirring concentration of energy. The Metal Monster
She was also perceptive and blessed with a keen sense of humour and a prodigious memory. Times, Sunday Times
In deep water the captain steered by means of a prodigious rudder; in the shallows he managed with a long, stout bamboo pole. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
There's a definite liberal bias in these so-called 'comics'," claimed the prodigious bellyacher. The Aristocrats
In fact theirs is very much a superficial similarity, based on prodigious talent and youth more than anything else.
Hill -- was Fonthill Abbey, near Salisbury, that prodigious folly to which A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
'Twas surely a prodigious fault on the part of the Marquis of Montcalm, to accept a battle from Wolfe on equal terms, for the British General had no artillery, and when we had made our famous scalade of the heights, and were on the Plains of Abraham, we were a little nearer the city, certainly, but as far off as ever from being within it. The Virginians
The assembled company eyed them with wonder; which you may be sure was not diminished, when they began to unrip the linings and the patches of those old clothes, and as the seams were opened, poured out before them a prodigious quantity of jewels. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
Sutton and Larsson worked prodigiously but were unrewarded.
My interest in Manchester's bands and their gabby, glib boss was minimal, but this is a gleefully rambunctious trip to a manky heart of darkness, with guns, deaths and prodigious amounts of drugs.
A Wall Street operator who was already in his fifties when he moved to London, Schechter is a prodigious talker, a showman and a financial wizard with a gift for innovation.
To the Respectable Citizen, the Moral Matron, and the Young Person, with a love of larkiness and lilt, but a distrust of politics, pugilism, and deep potations, the following eclectic adaptation of this prodigiously popular ballad may perhaps be not altogether unwelcome. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891
To the boy's surprise, it spread a pair of tan and gold wings that were prodigious in size, which caused it to appear as if it were towering over him.
It looks prodigiously as if just imported out of the slop bason. Camilla
The reputed beauty and the prodigious length and weight of the hair of Absalom, the son of David, as recorded in the sacred text, would be sufficient to startle the most enthusiastic modern dandy that cultivates the crinal ornament of his person. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
At this moment the ascensional force of the balloon increased prodigiously, and Ferguson, Kennedy, and Joe, waved a last good-by to their friends. Five Weeks in a Balloon
She was also perceptive and blessed with a keen sense of humour and a prodigious memory. Times, Sunday Times
She was also perceptive and blessed with a keen sense of humour and a prodigious memory. Times, Sunday Times
These early publications stand at the head of a prodigious and wide-ranging bibliography.
Among the wild animals are prodigious numbers of the vari-colored species of the gazelle, the bohur sassa, fecho, and madoqua. Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)
I watch Mariella in her simple, unambivalent and indeed prodigious dealings with men and can't help but thinking that an uncomplicated view of life and a basically optimistic character probably contribute equally to romantic success.
Yet, despite his prodigious memory for numbers, he had no memory for faces. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
NEW YORK (AP) - Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg heads toward a third term bruised by a surprisingly close re-election battle that exposed lingering anger over his reversal on term limits and his prodigious campaign spending. Despite Spending $100 Million On Campaign, Bloomberg Pulls Off Narrow Victory
A Wall Street operator who was already in his fifties when he moved to London, Schechter is a prodigious talker, a showman and a financial wizard with a gift for innovation.
Such remarks , though, hardly begin to explain that prodigiously gifted author Henry James.
But probably the whole prodigious mass of classic lore, and of scriptural quotation, even more unfamiliar to most of his hearers, which the pedantic president forced upon the digestion of the unfortunate notables, was required to prove to their satisfaction that Francis had in this affair played the part of the "gentilhomme" he boasted of being. The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
That of the sultana Valida is the largest of all, built entirely of marble, the most prodigious, and, I think, the most beautiful structure I ever saw, be it spoken to the honour of our sex, for it was founded by the mother of Mahomet IV. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e
But, Charles having got over to Scotland where the men of the Solemn League and Covenant led him a prodigiously dull life and made him very weary with long sermons and grim Sundays, the Parliament called the redoubtable Oliver home to knock the Scottish men on the head for setting up that Prince. A child`s history of England
Let's just say that one thing all these women must have in common is a prodigious amount of energy. Times, Sunday Times
The prodigious essayist was pushing deadline on a script for a movie that actor Bill Murray may do.
What is even more remarkable to physicists is the fact that this prodigiously powerful computing device has developed through biological evolution, with all of its apparent uncertainties and redundancies.
But his insatiable curiosity was matched by prodigious energy. Times, Sunday Times
He has proven himself a prodigious master of the qanun, an 81-string Arabic zither, his dexterous plucking unlocking the instrument's potential to scintillate and shine.
He was noted for his prodigious memory, was deeply religious, and a staunch advocate of temperance.
The growths were not so luxuriant or prodigious, but for the most part the trees offered suggestions of alluring possibilities to the semiarboreal Nu, for the branches were much heavier and more solid than those of the great tree-ferns of his own epoch, and commenced much nearer the ground. The Eternal Savage
In the early days of TV with only three or four broadcasters, television was forced to assume all people were essentially alike and accordingly had to deny the most obvious fact about consumers and citizens -- their prodigious, efflorescent diversity. Creating Value in a Competitive Media Industry
I wasn't really in the mood to get heavily into the intellectual history, but there's plenty there to ponder, and a prodigious amount of research.
They faced a prodigious amount of work and the odds were against them. Times, Sunday Times
They eat prodigious amounts of beetles that would otherwise bore into your desert trees.
The prodigious fund-raiser was admonished for creating the appearance that he was trading legislative favors for donations.
The Tweed is once again producing prodigious numbers of fish, thanks in no small measure to frequent rises in river level over the last few months providing often ideal conditions.
Warner quickly seized the opportunity and immediately signed the prodigious talent.
And although one would be amazed at the prodigious child who could follow to the letter its snaky progress, it captures brilliantly that moment when adults enrapture children by behaving like children themselves. Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie - review
They played knur and spell, flew pigeons (they still do), fought cocks, coursed rabbits with whippets, gambled on anything and everything and drank prodigiously.
The prodigiously gifted character actress Margo Martindale Million Dollar Baby heads up the clan as Mags Bennett, a marijuana queenpin who seamlessly slides between warm-hearted affection and cold-blooded murder. Cheers & Jeers: Justified's Great Big Bads
A derivative of Japan's long samurai-manga tradition (especially Lone Wolf and Cub), it has the requisite tangled storyline and some thrilling, plasmic exchanges rendered with a prodigious brush.
What a prodigious opportunity you have missed.
But the hard irreducible fact remains that one and only one combination of our prodigiously inventive sexual imagining is actually and naturally fruitful — as in, forms a self-replicating society that will perdure to need the law you craft for it. The Volokh Conspiracy » There’s Always Next Year
Halve, or quarter, this estimate if you will, in order to be certain of erring upon the right side, and still there remains a prodigious period during which the ancestors of existing coral polypes have been undisturbedly at work; and during which, therefore, the climatal conditions over the coral area must have been much what they are now. Autobiography and Selected Essays
I think prodigious is the word that best describes Winston Churchill the man-artist, orator, soldier, journalist, proud father and devoted husband, a connoisseur of food and wine and beauty, a passionate lover of life, of its great moments and its small pleasures. Winston Churchill
At times pogoing up and down, other times slinking around the stage with a half maniacal look on his face, the young performer showed off his prodigious jazz and blues influenced guitar talents and R&B inflected voice.
His prodigious gifts challenged and transformed an industry. Christianity Today
While at the museum, he contributed essays to numerous books and kept up a prodigious lecture schedule, discoursing on the past and present of fashion at museums and universities around the country.
In his study of hernias, an area of prodigious research and invention during surgery's transitional period, Arnaud devotes several paragraphs to imagining the hernial sac as it penetrates the peritoneal membrane.
He was nineteen when his mother died in 1821 and his boyhood experiences would colour his whole prodigious output of novels, poetry and plays.
The tortise — as the alderman of Bristol, well learned in eating, knows by much experience — besides the delicious calipash and calipee, contains many different kinds of food; nor can the learned reader be ignorant, that in human nature, though here collected under one general name, is such prodigious variety, that a cook will have sooner gone through all the several species of animal and vegetable food in the world, than an author will be able to exhaust so extensive a subject. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
This book is the result of prodigious reporting in pursuit of those answers. Times, Sunday Times
The 6.5million Irishman has been playing up front on his own and goes through a prodigious amount of work. The Sun
Either she has prodigious persuasive powers, given most of big business voted remain. Times, Sunday Times
At the time, Warhol was recovering from SCUM gunwoman Valerie Solanas 'murder attempt while also filming movies at a prodigious rate and embarking on road trips to show them at universities across the United States. ARTINFO: ANDY WARHOL: 8 Surprising Insights from "The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol"
One of them, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, was convinced that the strong, virile physical and moral education of the British public schools was responsible for the prodigious expansion of the British Empire.
I hope for all of us that Obama proves him wrong and uses his prodigious oratorial skills to make the progressive case and win the American people over to real universal health care e.g. single-payer Medicare for all, a non-predatory foreign policy, and generally, an approach to the challenges of 2008 that are not cravenly corporatist in orientation. Nader Defends Obama Slur - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
You also needed to be consistent, for he had a prodigious memory for how you had answered a similar question last time. Times, Sunday Times
To see the private display, the prodigious number of pleasant dwellings erected in Paris and in the provinces, the numerous equipages, the conveniences, the acquisitions comprehended in the term luxe, one might suppose that opulence was twenty times greater than it formerly was. The Ancient Regime
This self-deprecating facetiousness characterizes much of Maddin's verbal patter and not only is it a testament to his prodigious wit, but it also demonstrates why he gets away with the things he does.
This book is the result of prodigious reporting in pursuit of those answers. Times, Sunday Times
Who would have realised that his ideas would have a lasting influence from their prodigious outflowing in the 1920s right down to the twenty-first century?
Why is it that prodigious writers of pulpy, elaborate fiction spark such complete devotion?
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
Indeed, we have been like two mad things all day, ‘to such a prodigious degree’ (as aunt would say), that mother said, with her severe expression, ‘Whatever can be the matter with you, mesdemoiselles?’ Father Goriot
She was a prodigious musician.
Each of these factors doubtless contributes to our prodigious ability to learn.
Besides, between friends, I, who know the world, can see that half this prodigious delicacy for the little usurper is the mere result of self-interest; for, while her affairs are hushed up, Sir John's, you know, are kept from being brought further to light. Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
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French anabasis to Moscow he entered our service, made himself a prodigious favorite with the whole imperial family, and even now is only in his twenty-second year. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English
Gauss (who was a prodigious calculator) told a friend that whenever he had a spare 15 minutes he would spend it in counting the primes in a ‘chiliad’.
Hudson's Bay Company, who took his captivity mighty ill and grew prodigious pot-valiant over his cups. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade
The tale has strong resonances in Eva Sallis's own life… a world of home-schooling, prodigious talent and claustrophobic expectation.
Aboue in this great Court paued as aforesayd, in the passage towardes the Porche, some tenne paces, I beheld a prodigious winged vaughting horse, of moulten brasse, of an exceeding bignesse, his wings fanning out. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
Britain invested prodigious amounts of money in commercial property in the 2000s; it was not needed and it has not left us in a good place. Times, Sunday Times
He was dragged before the king and asked why he had returned with such a prodigious quantity of gold. Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State
She was no dog, certainly, and in fact her high cheekbones and widely spaced greenish eyes and rather full lips and her svelteness and her prodigious heightshe was easily five-ten, almost as tall as Tristanqualified her as hot, a term that Tristan detested but also knew applied in this case, at least where other guys would be concerned. Excerpt: The Dart League King by Keith Morris
They do, however, legally obtain, and often use in prodigious amounts, a product known as creatine phosphate, which doesn't build muscle, but is believed to boost athletic performance by enhancing cellular-energy production. Toxic Strength
See Tomkins with a telescope and marine jacket; young Nathan and young Abrams, already bedizened in jewellery, and rivalling the sun in oriental splendour; yonder poor invalid crawling along in her chair; yonder jolly fat lady examining the Brighton pebbles (I actually once saw a lady buy one), and her children wondering at the sticking-plaister portraits with gold hair, and gold stocks, and prodigious high-heeled boots, miracles of art, and cheap at seven-and-sixpence! The Newcomes
I should never get to the bottom — were I to let myself go even now — of the prodigious private commentary, all under still more private correction, with which, in these days, I overscored their full hours. The Turn of the Screw
The dress was made to reach right down to the ankles, in deference to Lady Hayes's ideas of propriety, and Darsie felt prodigiously fine and grown-up as she peacocked about before the long glass of her bedroom wardrobe on the day of the garden-party itself. A College Girl
He has found a way to channel his prodigious, hallucinogenic imagination into a cohesive story line, to optimum results.
I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up! Mark Twain
He stood beside me at the edge of a deep pool, likewise apparelled and prodigiously skinny. SHIN-BONES
By physical laws man knows but cannot control, microcosm and macro - cosm are combined: the terrella is “prodigious” as a magnet, yet it is a small power to govern the Flying COSMIC VOYAGES
Many aspects of his prodigious career are treated in the tributes offered by his friends, fans and collaborators for this Festschrift assembled to honour his 70th year.
Apart from squandering the resources of a prodigiously gifted cast, the film's greatest shortcoming must be its inability to generate the merest scintilla of dramatic tension around its central narrative thread.
He certainly represented an important segment of the Orthodox community, with a prodigious capacity for fund-raising and vote-getting.
Furthermore: you must know that when the second iron is thrown overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror, skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the lines, or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions. Moby Dick; or the Whale
For if he had had a design of forging a miracle, from a sense of the insufficience of the former, he would have made it prodigiously or vastly greater than these, which he has not done. A Vindication of Three of Our Blessed Saviour��s Miracles: viz. The Raising of Jairus��s daughter, The Widow of Naim��s son, and Lazarus.
It was of course a tongue in cheek remark; Sir Frank was a prodigiously hard worker, who took immense pleasure in what he did.
And when he chose to speak a harsh thought, it was ten-fold harsher than ordinarily, because it seemed to proceed out of such profundity of cogitation, because it was as prodigiously deliberate in its incubation as it was in its enunciation. CHAPTER XII
His prodigious gifts challenged and transformed an industry. Christianity Today
And they've just launched another smasher in the shape of the prodigious new 807 MPV.
He's helped by a prodigious memory for names and places and a blotting paper ability to absorb ideas from philosophy, literature and pop culture.
At ten my children set off to the dockyard, which is a most prodigious effort of machinery, and they are promised the sight of an anchor in the act of being forged, a most cyclopean sight. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
These animals are rather pretty at Rio, but far from strong; they are fed on maize and capim, or Guinea grass, which was introduced of late years into Brazil, and thrives prodigiously: it is cultivated by planting the joints; the stem and leaves are as large as those of barley; it grows sometimes to the height of six or seven feet, and the flower is a large loose pannicle. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
But his insatiable curiosity was matched by prodigious energy. Times, Sunday Times
Now he has a series of his own, and his prodigious gifts are still very much in evidence. Times, Sunday Times
A new science is giving us a renewed sense of our interconnection with all things, of our relationality, and of the numinosity, extraordinary depth and prodigious richness of nature. God, Strings, Emergence, and the Future of the World By Nicola Hoggard Creegan
Indeed, we have been like two mad things all day, to such a prodigious degree (as aunt would say), that mother said, with her severe expression, Whatever can be the matter with you, mesdemoiselles? Paras. 500–599
The consumption of the previous evening, prodigious by any standards, was exceeded nay, dwarfed by that which was to follow.
His prodigious intellectual energy found further outlets in popular books and lectures. The Times Literary Supplement
I repeated the scene at Dublin over again; showed her how prodigious my power was, humble as I was, and that my energy was still untired. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
Notwithstanding that the majority of its inhabitants were generally of dusky hue and its political masters theoretically implacably hostile to South Africa, those same politicians had so swiftly beggared the nation after independence with its pursuit of unbridled socialism that it quickly succumbed to the lure of the Rands and Dollars which landing fees and the profits from refuelling SAA’s Boeing 747s generated in prodigious quantities. Archive 2008-03-23
The Last Secret burnishes Mary McGarry Morris's reputation as one of our most prodigiously gifted writers. The Last Secret: Summary and book reviews of The Last Secret by Mary McGarry Morris.
You are to observe the winter method of fishing here, is to break openings like small fish ponds on the ice, to which the fish coming for air, are taken in prodigious quantities on the surface. The History of Emily Montague
the young Mozart's prodigious talents
G.R. Mead: But the hard irreducible fact remains that one and only one combination of our prodigiously inventive sexual imagining is actually and naturally fruitful — as in, forms a self-replicating society that will perdure to need the law you craft forit. The Volokh Conspiracy » There’s Always Next Year
His written output was prodigious. Times, Sunday Times
Striding towards the banquet-table with his flouncing companion at his side, Crockett secured a large delftware platter and commenced to fill it with a prodigious quantity of viands. Nevermore
Mozart had obtained by force the words that suited him; his music reanimated the mystery of the mythic theme with a prodigious power of invention.
Sweet girls and comments about Hillary's prodigious rear end does NOT, as Mr. Steinbrenner would say "put fannies in the seats". Why I Hate the Booth Babe Story, a Guest Editorial by Holly A.
His prodigious memory, which gave him total recall of hundreds of games, allowed him to play like a computer with nerveless precision and speed, panicking his opponents into error and despair.
It all provides evidence of a prodigious memory. The Times Literary Supplement
Prodigious is the only word for it; still, having just been briefed on the Future Combat System with its neoteric dogs, mules, and eagles, the Caesar's gun crew looked to me like Civil War reenactors.
Some galaxies seem to release prodigious amounts of energy.
Either she has prodigious persuasive powers, given most of big business voted remain. Times, Sunday Times
Symbols of erection, penetration, and prodigious sexual potency and regeneration are everywhere.
They faced a prodigious amount of work and the odds were against them. Times, Sunday Times
The flashing of torches and the beautiful radiance of blue lights (technically, Bengal lights) upon the heads of our horses; the fine effect of such a showery and ghostly illumination falling upon our flowers and glittering laurels [Footnote: "_Glittering laurels_": -- I must observe that the colour of _green_ suffers almost a spiritual change and exaltation under the effect of Bengal lights.]; whilst all around ourselves, that formed a centre of light, the darkness gathered on the rear and flanks in massy blackness: these optical splendours, together with the prodigious enthusiasm of the people, composed a picture at once scenical and affecting, theatrical and holy. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc
Live-aboard houseboats with small boats plunge deep upstream from immense river-mouths into heart-stopping scenery where new species of fish are being discovered at a prodigious rate.
She looks forward to immersing herself in the life's work of many an author unfamiliar to her, and plans to read prodigiously.
Schnabel , who once said of himself, "I'm the closest you'll get to Picasso in this life, " remains a painter of prodigious energy, productivity and self-confidence.
His curator says that despite his prodigious and inspired output he still thinks of himself as a farmer.
They learned in their early days with prodigious rapidity, illustrating the deep difference between the "big-brain" type, relatively poor in its endowment of instinctive capacities, but eminently "educable," and the "little-brain" type, say, of ants and bees, richly endowed with instinctive capacities, but very far from being quick or glad to learn. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
They faced a prodigious amount of work and the odds were against them. Times, Sunday Times
It was obviously a big blow, but we have a prodigious amount of young talent at this club and it will give somebody else a chance to come in and fill his shoes.
Only inexperience let the prodigious 16-year-old down when he was outsprinted by two senior riders after an ambitious lone attack was brought back.
Solifugids are prodigious diggers that usually only come out at night. Smithsonian Mag
And although one would be amazed at the prodigious child who could follow to the letter its snaky progress, it captures brilliantly that moment when adults enrapture children by behaving like children themselves. Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie - review
She had admired and esteemed Mr. Faulkland prodigiously; her vexation was the greater, in finding her expectations disappointed; and could I have been so unjust to the pretensions of another, or so indelicate in regard to myself, as to have overlooked Mr. Faulkland's fault, I knew my mother would be inflexible. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
These required a prodigious grasp of detail as well as of overarching policy. Times, Sunday Times
Researchers also plan this year to take a closer look at "grazers": worms, snails and other small organisms that in most freshwater lakes consume bacteria at such a prodigious rate that the bacteria never get a chance to form any large-scale structures. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Sedley, who admired his own legs prodigiously, and always wore this ornamental chaussure, was extremely pleased at this remark, though he drew his legs under his chair as it was made. Vanity Fair
Some galaxies seem to release prodigious amounts of energy.
The effect may be comic, but the fact that Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer would know words like "prodigious" is pretty amazing if you think about it nowadays. New Paradigms in Law
He was a prodigiously gifted artist.
The languorously limbed trees droop into the water, often shedding their prodigious fronds, providing a sheltered habitat for fish.
There were thousands of them, and in the water other thousands disported themselves, while the sound that went up from all their throats was prodigious and deafening. Chapter 19
How Roberts, a prodigiously gifted schoolboy, ended up pursuing a life of crime is a book in itself.
Most of it is a defence of Sappho's chastity, which some German had denied, and I can assure you the passion with which these two gentlemen argued, the learning they displayed, the prodigious ingenuity with which they disputed the use of some implement which looked to me for all the world like a hairpin astounded me; especially when the door opened and Professor Hobkin himself appeared. Monday or Tuesday
He possessed prodigious energy and drive, yet was prone to stress-related illnesses and collapses.
He went through a prodigious amount of drugs and a series of marriages. Times, Sunday Times
He was a man of prodigious energy. Times, Sunday Times
Worse, it's a prodigious eater, feeding on a variety of plants including oleanders, alfalfa, and almond trees.
You also needed to be consistent, for he had a prodigious memory for how you had answered a similar question last time. Times, Sunday Times
In 1449, she was expelled from the manor by Lord Moleyns's men, but not without a prodigious struggle.
A prodigious polymath, he wrote on subjects as varied as grammar and gout, ethics and eczema, and was highly regarded in his lifetime as a philosopher as well as a doctor.
The whole mass of his body was turned unto universal rottenness; and, though living creatures, and boiled animals, were applied with the design of drawing out the vermin by the heat, by which a vast hive was opened, a second imposthume discovered a more prodigious swarm, as if his whole body was resolved into worms. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
He would listen intently to his mother's lessons and as his prodigious talent became apparent she began to teach him, too.
And disregarding my blushes and protests, he held up the watchet blue frock against me, and it was near fitting me but for my breadth, -- the skirts being prodigiously long. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
He skilfully worked the fringes of the rough created by the bowlers' footmarks and although never a prodigious turner of the ball, he does generate some spin.
Two towers still exist, which might have been minarets, with inscriptions on them in Cufic, as I am told; also some portions of the ancient rampart, which is of prodigious size, and various fragments of the city wall. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
In a memo of an April 9, 2009 interview the ethics office conducted with Jackson, Nayak was described as a "prodigious and obsessive supporter" of Blagojevich. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
We see this exemplified in England, where the common tumbler, which is valued only for its flight, does not differ much from its parent-form, the Eastern tumbler; whereas the short-faced tumbler has been prodigiously modified, from being valued, not for its flight, but for other qualities. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
The items in her paintings are chosen for their visual voluptuousness, as well as their capacity to provide her with instances to showcase her prodigious painting skills.
She wrote a truly prodigious number of novels.
User's Guide has a few advantages over its predecessors: by benefit of its timing, it's much broader and perhaps more representative of their two decades of prodigious output.

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