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Examples for "prodigal"
Examples for "prodigal"
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The summer was splendid in its promise and prodigal in its favors.
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She was expansive in her person, prodigal in sympathy, exuberant in dress.
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And the parable of the prodigal son teaches us the same lesson.
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He is as prodigal in this respect as Caruso in his moments.
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The covetous prodigal is of all others the worst man in society.
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In the camp of the Seventy-seventh, the adornments were profuse and beautiful.
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A profuse and saving perspiration told him the crisis had been passed.
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Along this low road the flowers are profuse and in great variety.
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The citizens crowded round the king, profuse in their expressions of loyalty.
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Burning them at the stake prevented the profuse bloodletting of other measures.
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The judge's conclusions are all one way, and his language is unsparing.
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Enemies were unsparing in their denunciations, and friends ridiculed the whole proceeding.
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Mr. Montagu has been unsparing in his criticism of General Dyer's conduct.
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He saw, in an unsparing flash of comprehension, that it was useless.
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Walpole's hand struck him down in the most unsparing and humiliating way.
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Fifteen copecks was a liberal gratuity, and twenty bordered on the munificent.
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The deputation came and thanked her for her munificent act of charity.
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I have already mentioned the munificent gift of Medina-Celi to Madame Pichona.
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They were satisfied that their pure devotion deserved the most munificent rewards.
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To his munificent gifts the academy at St. Johnsbury owes its worth.
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Mrs. Graves is especially praised by the survivors for her unstinted charity.
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He will give as freely and with as unstinted self-sacrifice as they.
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But Jesus chooses that very time to lavish unstinted praise on him.
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She wrote a large, hasty hand, with an unstinted expenditure of ink.
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There is, however, one feature of this book that deserves unstinted praise.
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No queues, plenty of classes, unstinting attention - and a home help.
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He is unstinting in his praise for his boss, Mr Bill Gates.
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Sharapova, deflated but gracious, was unstinting in her praise for the victor.
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After two days' unstinting effort, the light-tube began to blaze with early-morning intensity.
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His unstinting generosity, in fact, would soon make him relatively poor.
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Captain Crouan, I fear you have been overgenerous in pouring the wine.
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Goldman was the best, and I found his overgenerous compliments unnerving.
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His lips were full, almost overgenerous, and his color was high and healthy.
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The Hay-Herran Treaty, if it erred at all, erred in being overgenerous toward Colombia.
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He found his packet of rice papers and took an overgenerous amount of the treated weed.
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His lavish but ironic praise of Han Feng is a good example.
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Loyalty was rewarded with the finest imported goods and lavish state support.
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No more beautifully produced print issues, no more lavish illustrations on paper.
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She married the 53-year-old multi-millionaire earlier this year in a lavish ceremony.
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Grand claims, lavish promises or weak explanations may not ring entirely true.
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All the world was entertained in the lavish western spirit of hospitality.
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All the way here I saw her coming out of lavish doorways.
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They have before been restricted in their expenditure; now they become lavish.
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I have seen more lavish productions of The Way of the World.
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The vendors recently transformed the former space into five lavish accommodation suites.
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Somalia: Weddings at the Peace Hotel used to be a lavish affair.
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His generosity to friends was lavish to the point of impoverishing himself.
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All I needed was lavish space at a small rent, anywhere central.
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Manafort is not on trial for having a lavish lifestyle, Ellis said.
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The clerk and the detective were lavish in their apologies to Nan.
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The castle and the grounds were adorned and decorated with lavish expenditure.
