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  • "Talk about a prodigy," Freak says.†   (source)
  • Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming out on this cold November night, this night that will live in history, this night that for the first time on any stage anywhere, you have listened to the smooth saxophonical musings of that prodigy of the reed, Mr. Sleepy LaBone!†   (source)
  • Her brother was a senior at Rosewood and a tennis prodigy; they were building a tennis court for him in the backyard.†   (source)
  • She was a criminal—a prodigy at killing, a Queen of the Underworld—and yet ...yet she was just a girl, sent at seventeen to Endovier.†   (source)
  • They couldn't use ambigrams or scientific symbology because it would be far too conspicuous, so they called on an Illuminati artist-the same anonymous prodigy who had created their ambigrammatic symbol 'Illuminati'—and they commissioned him to carve four sculptures.†   (source)
  • The Republic's favorite little prodigy is in trouble again.†   (source)
  • I said to myself, 'Larten, there goes a most remarkable child, a true prodigy.†   (source)
  • 'If I win, I'm a prodigy.†   (source)
  • I read profiles of-people with Asperger's who were prodigies in music or mathematics, but I learned that they were as rare as prodigies among the general .†   (source)
  • Maybe he was a music teacher, and she was the flute prodigy he had discovered in some small town and brought to play at Carnegie Hall — "Theo?" my mother said suddenly.†   (source)
  • This is true even of people we think of as prodigies.†   (source)
  • Such a prodigy.†   (source)
  • And yet I can't fail to notice that whenever I screw something up, Amy does it right: When I finally quit violin at age twelve, Amy was revealed as a prodigy in the next book.†   (source)
  • But yes, Four is some kind of Dauntless prodigy.†   (source)
  • Oh yes, our boy prodigy.†   (source)
  • Paintings that are spiritual, emotional ....and created by a twelve-year-old prodigy.†   (source)
  • Born in Lumpkin, Georgia, on January 10, 1850, Root was a musical prodigy who could sing before he could talk.†   (source)
  • "Prodigy," I corrected.†   (source)
  • Rogers was something of a journalism prodigy.†   (source)
  • Wouldn't you just expect some theological prodigy driving a blasphemous Pontiac station wagon to bring us his religious view packaged in a country-western song.†   (source)
  • And it turns out Jordan's like, a math prodigy.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, our expedition, running appalling risks, performing prodigies of superhuman endurance, achieving immortal renown, commemorated in august cathedral sermons and by public statues, yet reaching the Pole only to find our terrible journey superfluous, and leaving our best men dead on the ice.†   (source)
  • Then the teacher went to the children's father, told him that Tererai was a prodigy, and begged for her to be allowed to attend school.†   (source)
  • The other three guys in the band were Ennio, who plays the drums and is considered to be this prodigy drummer, Harry on lead guitar, and Elijah on bass guitar.†   (source)
  • It had to be hard to be a prodigy, supersmart but so much younger than everyone else at school.†   (source)
  • Two days later at dusk, a clutch of kids rushes to the eastern side of the ninth floor and squeezes into the room of Kelly Armendariz, a tall, sensitive piano prodigy and math whiz from Carlsbad, New Mexico.†   (source)
  • Only brilliant prodigies know how to do it.†   (source)
  • She named my brother Emanuel Chaim after the Jewish historian Emanuel Ringelblum, who buried milk cans filled with testimony in the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Jewish cellist Emanuel Feuermann, who was one of the great musical prodigies of the twentieth century, and also the Jewish writer of genius Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel, and her uncle Chaim, who was a joker, a real clown, made everyone laugh like crazy, and who died by the Nazis.†   (source)
  • The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances...if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is to be born to live and labor for another ....or en tail his own miserable condition on the endless generations proceeding from him...Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.†   (source)
  • Like Elias Bram, David was a true sorcerer, a prodigy whose genius with magic often allowed him to bypass the ancient formulae and incantations that were a Mystic's tools in trade.†   (source)
  • Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered.†   (source)
  • Then he introduced Alessandro to the French ambassador, who was deeply disturbed that he did not know the identity of the young man opposite him, undoubtedly a prince or a musical prodigy.†   (source)
  • Because Ellis Wyatt is a prodigy who—†   (source)
  • Second, because he is a piano prodigy and takes great pleasure from music, he can be rewarded with anything from the Beatles to Beethoven.†   (source)
  • I was a piano playing prodigy who doesn't belong anywhere near an Intro to Music class.†   (source)
  • He is a prodigy with languages.†   (source)
  • Did your grandmother claim she'd actually seen this prodigy?†   (source)
  • You were a mechanical prodigy and a weapons master.†   (source)
  • In all truth I had not invited this prodigy of a tongue; turning, I had merely wished to look at her face, expecting only that the expression of aesthetic delight I might find there would correspond to what I knew was my own.†   (source)
  • The men sent out to turn back the refugees often missed them, and the women flooded into the forest, chopping down trees, building roads and bridges, and achieving prodigies of resourcefulness.†   (source)
  • We didn't immediately pick the right kind of prodigy.   (source)
    prodigy = person with exceptional ability
  • And then I saw what seemed to be the prodigy side of me--because I had never seen that face before.   (source)
    prodigy = someone with exceptional ability
  • Two or three months had gone by without any mention of my being a prodigy again.   (source)
  • But sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient.   (source)
  • "Of course you can be prodigy, too," my mother told me when I was nine.   (source)
  • It was as if I knew, without a doubt, that the prodigy side of me really did exist.   (source)
  • I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.   (source)
  • There was only one thing wanting to make Mr. Walters' ecstasy complete, and that was a chance to deliver a Bible-prize and exhibit a prodigy.   (source)
    prodigy = an impressive example of something
  • Hudson tells us that Florence is a prodigy, with one of the highest IQs in his school.†   (source)
  • I went intending to eliminate Wei Cheng, that math prodigy.†   (source)
  • Tell me he's some kind of Dauntless prodigy," says Caleb.†   (source)
  • I am no longer the Republic's only prodigy with a perfect score.†   (source)
  • I'm a prodigy who knows the truth, and I know exactly what I'm going to do.†   (source)
  • You're the prodigy with the perfect score?†   (source)
  • Another prodigy—and not just an average one.†   (source)
  • I've met other prodigies before but certainly never one that the Republic decided to keep hidden.†   (source)
  • They say I'm a prodigy already at the oboe.†   (source)
  • Imagining the Theorem only required a prodigy, but actually completing it would take a genius.†   (source)
  • No longer a prodigy, not yet a genius—but still a smartypants.†   (source)
  • Prodigy was what Colin had, the way language has words.†   (source)
  • And his dad's smile faded just a bit—the prodigy could read, but he could not see.†   (source)
  • And that—to use the kind of complex word you'd expect from a prodigy—blew.†   (source)
  • Prodigies tend to hit their peak at, like twelve or thirteen.†   (source)
  • And a lot of prodigies who push and push and push end up even more Lugged up than me.†   (source)
  • I looked out over the dark waters, able to bear prodigies.†   (source)
  • Ah yes, our young prodigy.†   (source)
  • Prodigy was right.†   (source)
  • Or, rather, I was seeing it but in a wholly different way: not the ecstatic prodigy; not the mystic, the solitary, heroically quitting the concert stage at the height of his fame to retreat into the snows of Canada —but the hypochondriac, the recluse, the isolate.†   (source)
  • The Chicago Times-Herald took the broad view and said of Holmes: "He is a prodigy of wickedness, a human demon, a being so unthinkable that no novelist would dare to invent such a character.†   (source)
  • But then the two men turned their attention back to the stage, where the violin prodigy was taking his place before the conductor.†   (source)
  • Even Mozart, the greatest musical prodigy of all time, couldn't hit his stride until he had his ten thousand hours in.†   (source)
  • Per Director Vavilov, Sofia's performance of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto was to be the penultimate piece on the program, followed by a violin prodigy's performance of a Dvorak concerto, both with full orchestra.†   (source)
  • That late-born prodigy doesn't get chosen for the all-star team as an eight-year-old because he's too small.†   (source)
  • There they are, the professor and the prodigy, and what the prodigy clearly wants is to be engaged, at long last, with a mind that loves mathematics as much as he does.†   (source)
  • You'd think that there should be a fair number of Czech hockey or soccer prodigies born late in the year who are so talented that they eventually make their way into the top tier as young adults, despite their birth dates.†   (source)
  • Why waste a prodigy in this way?†   (source)
  • But Day is not just any prodigy.†   (source)
  • That you're a prodigy.†   (source)
  • Born with a prodigy's intuitive understanding of the animals, he had devoted himself to them so wholeheartedly that he was incomplete without them.†   (source)
  • A real prodigy.†   (source)
  • Mia and I had been together for more than two years, and yes, it was a high-school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever, the kind that, had we met five years later and had she not been some cello prodigy and had I not been in a band on the rise—or had our lives not been ripped apart by all this—I was pretty sure it would've been.†   (source)
  • Glancing up, Max saw Rowan's sorcerer—the very prodigy who had raised 'Fur an Ghrian—standing at the railing in his underwear.†   (source)
  • As a sociologist, Colin's dad studied people, and he had a theory on how to transform a prodigy into a grown-up genius.†   (source)
  • As Colin had explained to Hassan countless times, there's a stark difference between the words prodigy and genius.†   (source)
  • His dad pushed him to study more and harder, but he wasn't the kind of prodigy who goes to college at eleven.†   (source)
  • So much for the benefits of prodigy.†   (source)
  • His interest in Colin wasn't exactly unselfish—over the years, Keith would publish a number of articles about Colin's prodigy.†   (source)
  • They gave Colin a makeover when he arrived for the first taping, turning him into the cool, snide, troublemaking prodigy.†   (source)
  • One rarely comes across, for instance, the following want ad: Prodigy Huge, megalithic corporation seeks a talented, ambitious prodigy to join our exciting, dynamic Prodigy Division for summer job.†   (source)
  • To be a, uh, prodigy or whatever?†   (source)
  • There's no doubt that the Archduke Franz Ferdinand mattered, although he was neither a prodigy nor a genius: his assassination sparked World War 1—so his death led to 8,528,831 others.†   (source)
  • A certifiable genius (who was definitely never a prodigy), Einstein had figured out that light can act, in a seeming paradox, both as a discrete particle and as a wave.†   (source)
  • Colin's father believed that this kind of prodigy born and then made smarter by the right environment and education—could become a considerable genius, remembered forever.†   (source)
  • And in that space, Colin thought, there was room enough to reinvent himself—room enough to make himself into something other than a prodigy, to remake his story better and different— room enough to be reborn again and again.†   (source)
  • And so the periodically incontinent prodigy ended up in a small, windowless office on the South Side, talking to a woman with horn-rimmed glasses, who asked Colin to find patterns in strings of letters and numbers.†   (source)
  • A feral hog, some hornets, and a prodigy led me through the woods so that I might stumble upon the first girl I ever kissed riding "TOC like he's a thoroughbred next to the grave of an Austro-Hungarian Archduke.†   (source)
  • He didn't watch much TV, but it wouldn't have mattered, because no one had heard of CreaTVity...They'd gotten his number from Krazy Keith, who they 'd contacted because of his scholarly articles about prodigy.†   (source)
  • A prodigy and not a genius.†   (source)
  • Formerly a prodigy.†   (source)
  • He was apparently pretty quod at serial killing, as one might expect of a prodigy, since he never got caught and indeed probably no one would have ever known about Hodel except his son—true story—became a homicide detective in California, and through a series of amazing coincidences and some pretty solid police work, became convinced that his dad was a murderer.†   (source)
  • Katherine IV, aka Katherine the Red, was a mousy redhead with red plastic-rimmed glasses whom I met in Suzuki violin lessons and she played beautifully and I played hardly at all because I could never be bothered to practice and so after four days she dumped me for a piano prodigy named Robert Vaughan who ended up playing a solo concert at Carnegie Hall when he was eleven, so I guess she made the right call there.†   (source)
  • Katherine III was a perfectly charming little brunette whom I met my first summer at smart-kid camp, which would in time come to be the place for child prodigies to pick up chicks, and since it makes a better story, I choose to remember that she dumped me one morning on the archery course after this math prodigy named Jerome ran in front of her bow and fell to the ground, claiming he'd been shot by Cupid's arrow.†   (source)
  • And then they taped all six preliminary rounds of the show in one day, pausing to change the prodigies into new outfits.†   (source)
  • —0 Katherine, a tiny blond with both her father's ponytail and his fascination with prodigies, sat watching him quietly.†   (source)
  • It's about a family of prodigies.†   (source)
  • Not all the kids were prodigies, of course—their IQs ranged from 145 to 190, and Colin, by comparison, had an IQ that sometimes measured above 200—but they represented many of the best and brightest children of that generation of Americans.†   (source)
  • Prodigies learn; geniuses do.†   (source)
  • All the prodigies in that movie were really hot, for instance," he joked, and she laughed and said, "So are all the ones I know," and then he exhaled sharply and looked up at her and almost—but no. He wasn't sure and couldn't handle the thought of rejection.†   (source)
  • Eva was mad for the flute, and after four months or so Zaorski had begun to dote on the little girl, amazed at her natural gift, fussed over her as if she were a prodigy (which she might have been), another Landowska, another Paderewski, another Polish offering to music's pantheon—and finally even refused the trifling amount that Sophie was able to pay.†   (source)
  • His range was astonishing and I had constantly to remind myself that I was talking to a scientist, a biologist (I kept thinking of a prodigy like Julian Huxley, whose essays I had read in college)—this man who possessed so many literary references and allusions, both classical and modern, and who within the space of an hour could, with no gratuitous strain, weave together Lytton Strachey, Alice in Wonderland, Martin Luther's early celibacy, A Midsummer Night's Dream and the mating habits of the Sumatran orangutan into a little jewel box of a beguiling lecture which facetiously but with a serious overtone explored the intertwined nature of sexual voyeurism and exhibitionism.†   (source)
  • "What is it?" she asked joyfully, ready to promise prodigies.†   (source)
  • It was all as simple and easy to learn and understand to Duran as chess to a child chess prodigy.†   (source)
  • Maybe she had started out by dreaming she might have a prodigy in one of us to manage to fame.†   (source)
  • But compared with Duran you were like a good sound chess player against a boy prodigy.†   (source)
  • Such monsters never live long, it is said; one has never seen a prodigy of that sort cropping grass in a field.†   (source)
  • The talk was all about good and bad hotels, actors and actresses and musical prodigies.†   (source)
  • Also, we were marvelous musical prodigies—if you will allow me to say it, it being only the truth.†   (source)
  • A superstitious old woman was the only witness of this prodigy.†   (source)
  • I hope you will be pleased with my son; but you must not expect a prodigy.†   (source)
  • These algae are a genuine prodigy of creation, one of the wonders of world flora.†   (source)
  • He is the American prodigy; and I suppose I may as well give him all the credit you ask.†   (source)
  • Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others.†   (source)
  • He is generally thought a fine young man, but do not expect a prodigy.†   (source)
  • Amelia was bewildered by his phrases, but thought him a prodigy of learning.†   (source)
  • Long I gazed at that prodigy of plumage.†   (source)
  • He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy.†   (source)
  • There ensued one of those silences which occur only in the presence of prodigies.†   (source)
  • 'He is a prodigy,' he said at last.†   (source)
  • He has NOT literally 'ever,' in these weeks that I myself have lived with him and so closely watched him; he has been an imperturbable little prodigy of delightful, lovable goodness.†   (source)
  • Mr. Browne extended his open hand towards her and said to those who were near him in the manner of a showman introducing a prodigy to an audience: "Miss Julia Morkan, my latest discovery!"†   (source)
  • Or, if you shall so prefer to choose, a new province of knowledge and new avenues to fame and power shall be laid open to you, here, in this room, upon the instant; and your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan.†   (source)
  • Upon sailors as superstitious as those of the age preceding ours, men-of-war's-men too who had just beheld the prodigy of repose in the form suspended in air and now foundering in the deeps; to such mariners the action of the sea-fowl, tho' dictated by mere animal greed for prey, was big with no prosaic significance.†   (source)
  • There are twelve thousand students; beside this prodigy Oxford is a tiny theological school and Harvard a select college for young gentlemen.†   (source)
  • He was quite able to bear his sufferings—it was as if he had all these complaints to show what a prodigy of health he was.†   (source)
  • From time to time I dipped into old Sir Thomas Malory's enchanting book, and fed at its rich feast of prodigies and adventures, breathed in the fragrance of its obsolete names, and dreamed again.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the Angel leans over their cradle, as happened to Lotte, and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at six better than men at fifty, which, you must admit, is very wonderful.†   (source)
  • Gigantic pansies, considerably larger than the roses, and closely resembling the floral pen-wipers made by female parishioners for fashionable clergymen, sprang from the moss beneath the rose-trees; and here and there a daisy grafted on a rose-branch flowered with a luxuriance prophetic of Mr. Luther Burbank's far-off prodigies.†   (source)
  • A cry followed; he reeled, staggered, clutched at the table and held on, staring with injected eyes, gasping with open mouth; and as I looked there came, I thought, a change—he seemed to swell— his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter—and the next moment, I had sprung to my feet and leaped back against the wall, my arm raised to shield me from that prodigy, my mind submerged in terror.†   (source)
  • Say that, by the dark prodigy I knew, the imagination of all evil HAD been opened up to him: all the justice within me ached for the proof that it could ever have flowered into an act.†   (source)
  • There was something superhuman in an attitude so recklessly unorthodox, and if other problems had not pressed on him he would have been lost in wonder at the prodigy of the Wellands' daughter urging him to marry his former mistress.†   (source)
  • To see her, without a convulsion of her small pink face, not even feign to glance in the direction of the prodigy I announced, but only, instead of that, turn at ME an expression of hard, still gravity, an expression absolutely new and unprecedented and that appeared to read and accuse and judge me—this was a stroke that somehow converted the little girl herself into the very presence that could make me quail.†   (source)
  • And Simon Ockley's[324] History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor with admiration, all the more evident on the part of the narrator, that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford[325] requires of him some proper protestations of abhorrence.†   (source)
  • You are certainly a prodigy; you will soon not only surpass the railway, which would not be very difficult in France, but even the telegraph.†   (source)
  • I told him all I knew, but he would have believed anything I might have taken it into my head to impart to him; for he had a profound veneration for my abilities, and informed his wife in my hearing, on that very occasion, that I was 'a young Roeshus' — by which I think he meant prodigy.†   (source)
  • A prodigy!†   (source)
  • Heyward lifted his head from the cover, and beheld what he justly considered a prodigy of rashness and skill.†   (source)
  • The Romeo was received with hearty plaudits and unbounded favour, and Smike was pronounced unanimously, alike by audience and actors, the very prince and prodigy of Apothecaries.†   (source)
  • His regiment had performed prodigies of courage, and had withstood for a while the onset of the whole French army.†   (source)
  • Prodigies are told of him.†   (source)
  • It is true that among her contemporaries she passed for a young woman of extraordinary profundity; for these excellent people never withheld their admiration from a reach of intellect of which they themselves were not conscious, and spoke of Isabel as a prodigy of learning, a creature reported to have read the classic authors—in translations.†   (source)
  • The Countess, who professed to think her sister-in-law a prodigy of learning, never made an objection, and gazed at masses of Roman brickwork as patiently as if they had been mounds of modern drapery.†   (source)
  • The presence of Natasha—a woman, a lady, and on horseback—raised the curiosity of the serfs to such a degree that many of them came up to her, stared her in the face, and unabashed by her presence made remarks about her as though she were some prodigy on show and not a human being able to hear or understand what was said about her.†   (source)
  • It cannot be repeated too often that nothing is more fertile in prodigies than the art of being free; but there is nothing more arduous than the apprenticeship of liberty.†   (source)
  • Fakirs and soldiers and priests, seized with instant terror, lay there, with their faces on the ground, not daring to lift their eyes and behold such a prodigy.†   (source)
  • On this occasion Mr Barnacle was not engaged, as he had been before, with the noble prodigy at the head of the Department; but was absent.†   (source)
  • It traversed the battle like a prodigy.†   (source)
  • Passing the time in the labors of preparation in Galilee, he waited patiently the action of the Nazarene, who became daily more and more a mystery to him, and by prodigies done, often before his eyes, kept him in a state of anxious doubt both as to his character and mission.†   (source)
  • Howsever, turn it does, as all my people say, and you ought to believe 'em, since they can foretell eclipses, and other prodigies, that used to fill the tribes with terror, according to your own traditions of such things.†   (source)
  • Day after day, and night after night, they went dining and visiting from house to house, making friends, enlarging and solidifying their popularity, and charming and surprising all with their musical prodigies, and now and then heightening the effects with samples of what they could do in other directions, out of their stock of rare and curious accomplishments.†   (source)
  • This truth is just as apparent to-day, in connection with the prodigies of the republic, as it then was in connection with those distant rulers, whose merits it was always safe to applaud, and whose demerits it was treason to reveal.†   (source)
  • Mr Folair having obligingly confided these particulars to Nicholas, left him to mingle with his fellows; the work of personal introduction was completed by Mr Vincent Crummles, who publicly heralded the new actor as a prodigy of genius and learning.†   (source)
  • Although master of himself, Monte Cristo, scrutinized with irrepressible curiosity the magistrate whose salute he returned, and who, distrustful by habit, and especially incredulous as to social prodigies, was much more despised to look upon "the noble stranger," as Monte Cristo was already called, as an adventurer in search of new fields, or an escaped criminal, rather than as a prince of the Holy See, or a sultan of the Thousand and One Nights.†   (source)
  • Testimonials representing Mrs General as a prodigy of piety, learning, virtue, and gentility, were lavishly contributed from influential quarters; and one venerable archdeacon even shed tears in recording his testimony to her perfections (described to him by persons on whom he could rely), though he had never had the honour and moral gratification of setting eyes on Mrs General in all his life.†   (source)
  • Isabel, since she had known her, felt ashamed of her own facility, which she now looked upon as basely inferior; and indeed, though she had been thought rather a prodigy at home, the loss to society when, in taking her place upon the music-stool, she turned her back to the room, was usually deemed greater than the gain.†   (source)
  • The brothers were in a perfect ecstasy; and their insisting on saluting the ladies all round, before they would permit them to retire, gave occasion to the superannuated bank clerk to say so many good things, that he quite outshone himself, and was looked upon as a prodigy of humour.†   (source)
  • Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; as one who in that miserable plight still turns and turns in giddy anguish, praying God for annihilation until the fit be passed; and at last amid the whirl of woe he feels, a deep stupor steals over him, as over the man who bleeds to death, for conscience is the wound, and there's naught to staunch it; so, after sore wrestlings in his berth, Jonah's prodigy of ponderous misery drags him drowning down to sleep.†   (source)
  • Becky admired little Matilda, who was not quite four years old, as the most charming little love in the world; and the boy, a little fellow of two years—pale, heavy-eyed, and large-headed—she pronounced to be a perfect prodigy in point of size, intelligence, and beauty.†   (source)
  • Such a nursery of statesmen had the Department become in virtue of a long career of this nature, that several solemn lords had attained the reputation of being quite unearthly prodigies of business, solely from having practised, How not to do it, as the head of the Circumlocution Office.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a School—not of a seminary, or an establishment, or any thing which professed, in long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality, upon new principles and new systems—and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity—but a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.†   (source)
  • The marvels that have descended to our own times, in the way of tradition, concerning the quantities of beasts, birds, and fishes that were then to be met with, on the shores of the great lakes in particular, are known to be sustained by the experience of living men, else might we hesitate about relating them; but having been eye-witnesses of some of these prodigies, our office shall be discharged with the confidence that certainty can impart.†   (source)
  • Not the wondrous cistern in the whale's huge head; not the prodigy of his unhinged lower jaw; not the miracle of his symmetrical tail; none of these would so surprise you, as half a glimpse of that unaccountable cone,—longer than a Kentuckian is tall, nigh a foot in diameter at the base, and jet-black as Yojo, the ebony idol of Queequeg.†   (source)
  • So that here, in the real living experience of living men, the prodigies related in old times of the inland Strello mountain in Portugal (near whose top there was said to be a lake in which the wrecks of ships floated up to the surface); and that still more wonderful story of the Arethusa fountain near Syracuse (whose waters were believed to have come from the Holy Land by an underground passage); these fabulous narrations are almost fully equalled by the realities of the whalemen.†   (source)
  • Marius was dazzled by this prodigy.†   (source)
  • Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving.†   (source)
  • Forced into familiarity, then, with such prodigies as these; and knowing that after repeated, intrepid assaults, the White Whale had escaped alive; it cannot be much matter of surprise that some whalemen should go still further in their superstitions; declaring Moby Dick not only ubiquitous, but immortal (for immortality is but ubiquity in time); that though groves of spears should be planted in his flanks, he would still swim away unharmed; or if indeed he should ever be made to spout thick blood, such a sight would be but a ghastly deception; for again in unensanguined billows hundreds of leagues away, his unsullied jet would once more be seen.†   (source)
  • In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community of life been established between this celestial little creature and that old criminal?†   (source)
  • This masterpiece finished, this prodigy accomplished, all these miracles of art, address, skill, and patience executed, what will be your recompense if it becomes known that you are the author?†   (source)
  • And moreover, let this be borne in mind, it is only a question here of the military vessel of forty years ago, of the simple sailing-vessel; steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy which is called a war vessel.†   (source)
  • And, such are the windings of the exchange of speech, that, a moment later, by a transition brought about through Jean Prouvaire's verses, Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with Cournand, Cournand with Delille, pointing out the passages translated by Malfilatre, particularly the prodigies of Caesar's death; and at that word, Caesar, the conversation reverted to Brutus.†   (source)
  • These Hektor faced in battle; he performed prodigies in spearmanship and chariot-handling, making havoc in the young men's ranks.†   (source)
  • It may be these apparent prodigies,
    The unaccustom'd terror of this night,
    And the persuasion of his augurers
    May hold him from the Capitol today.   (source)
    prodigies = extraordinary things
  • When these prodigies
    Do so conjointly meet, let not men say
    "These are their reasons; they are natural";   (source)
  • Prodigies of cooking were already under way in surrounding houses.†   (source)
  • Francis Jeffrey, writing on Franklin in the /Edinburgh Review/ for July, 1806, hailed him as a prodigy who had arisen "in a society where there was no relish and no encouragement for literature."†   (source)
  • To match such [Pg283] American prodigies as /Darby/ for /Enroughty/, the English themselves have /Hools/ for /Howells/, /Sillinger/ for /St.†   (source)
  • The day following they gave him only ten, and he was regarded by his comrades as a prodigy.†   (source)
  • PER: Nay, sir, be not so; I'll tell you a greater prodigy than these.†   (source)
  • Monsters and prodigies are the proper arguments to support monstrous and absurd doctrines.†   (source)
  • 2 AVOC: 'Tis pity two such prodigies should live.†   (source)
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