Has she not bestowed on him every gift in prodigality?. From Wordnik.com. [I.6] Reference
83 But this vain prodigality, which the prudence of Diocletian might justly despise, was enjoyed with surprise and transport by the Roman people. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
His prodigality is a science fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Planet-x.com.au » The Laverytory: The Method Meets Science Fiction in "Over There"] Reference
This, then, is the sense in which we take the word 'prodigality'. From Wordnik.com. [The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS] Reference
My prodigality was my fatal mistake. From Wordnik.com. [The Grain of Dust] Reference
The prodigality of beautiful phrases is marvelous. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
With his usual prodigality, the giant had brought along. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam] Reference
Is parsimony intrinsically more culpable than prodigality?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
The very prodigality of its resources is a stumbling-block. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
Leslie, they made amends for his stinginess by their own prodigality. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Seldom has an election been contested with such prodigality of partisan fury. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
His money gone, he was made treasurer of the troupe his prodigality had ruined. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Surrounded by courtiers, she flung her favors right and left with impartial prodigality. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
An overflowing Treasury has led to habits of prodigality and extravagance in our legislation. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
The struggle among all living things helps us to understand the necessity for Nature's prodigality. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
Treasury had produced habits of prodigality and extravagance which could only be gradually corrected. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Truly, for myself, meseems I see before my eyes the lost child's disdainful prodigality, turned to envy. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
His love of display and his prodigality, his suspiciousness and his despotism, increased with his power. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Lafayette's part in the assembly consisted in making a bold protest against the prodigality of the crown. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Lafayette] Reference
Miss Jemima, who had resumed her work, proceeded to dig out the eye of a potato with unwonted prodigality. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
The houses are mostly cottages, half-hidden in orchards and luxuriant gardens, having a prodigality of ground. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
With uncontrolled command over the purse of the people the executive tends to prodigality, to taxes, and to wars. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
We are only beginning to realize that this very prodigality of nature has produced a spirit of prodigality in men. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
But prodigality was the bane of the Yonges, and not much more than one hundred years later it passed away from Sir. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Appropriations should be adequate to the needs of the public service, but they should be absolutely free from prodigality. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Avarice sometimes produces prodigality, and prodigality avarice: we are often firm from weakness, and daring from timidity. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Believe me, the most estimable characters are those with whom there is the least tendency to this overflowing prodigality of kindness. From Wordnik.com. [The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies.] Reference
It is full of the innocence of love, and rich with that prodigality of beauty with which youthful genius loves to make itself splendid. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
Only -- and this the mystifying feature of the episode -- Felix Page could never honestly be accused of prodigality in any circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
She would have given worlds for power to convey the sweet air that swept with such cool prodigality by her face, to the close room of Mrs. Chester. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
He sent message after message to the little shop-girl for whom, with the senseless prodigality of such youth, he had proposed to fling away his future. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Actium, and of Egypt, and distributing the gold he had won with such prodigality that interest on loans was reduced two thirds and the price of lands doubled. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
The toleration of this idea results in the waste of the people's money by their chosen servants and encourages prodigality and extravagance in the home life of our countrymen. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
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