Be now as prodigal of all dear grace As Nature was in making graces dear When she did starve the general world beside, And prodigally gave them all to you.
The story of the prodigal son was a great joke to him.
A committee was sent to help me out, and the following week the prodigal returned.
No one asks whether our Lord's parable of the Prodigal Son was a true story of some Galilean family.
So the prodigal first confesses that he has sinned "against heaven.
The early Spaniards were prodigal with place-names testifying to their piety, but these names, in the overwhelming main, were those of saints.
In many directions the same prodigal fancy shows itself--for example, in the free interchange of parts of speech, in the bold inflection of words not inflected in sound English, and in the invention of wholly artificial words.
He tells us that God is our father, that his love watches over all his children, that it follows the prodigal in his wandering and greets him on his return, that even a sparrow does not fall to the earth without it.
The prodigal son has been another prolific source of literary writing.
It is, indeed, a most curious and remarkable circumstance that even in realistic France the true course of the prodigal has never been faithfully described.
Dining with the king was an honor his majesty was not so prodigal of as Henry IV.
And he gave one pistole to the woman and two to the man; and the benedictions which were showered down upon them would have rejoiced the heart of Harpagon himself, and have rendered, even him, prodigal of his money.
These reflections were not those of a drunken man, although everything was in prodigal profusion at Vaux, and the surintendant's wines had met with a distinguished reception at the fete.
Joseph, Daniel, and the Prodigal Son appear in wonderful Indian settings, "adapted" sometimes almost beyond recognition.
To continue: the prodigal was pierced to the core by the great mercy shown by his parents, and the brilliancy of his own original good heart was enticed back to him.
To return to the story: the halo of his parents' great kindness and pity penetrated the very bowels of the prodigal son.
Both sides fought with the utmost courage and obstinacy, and wereprodigal of life in the extreme.
Louis was prodigal of his smiles to rising talent, for he knew that to it the sunshine of encouragement is as beneficent as the sun's warmth to the earth in spring-time.
The prodigal son, famished with hunger, makes an energetic resolution: Surgam et ibo ad patrem!
They are less prodigal in sacrifices, and promise me to embrace Christianity, and do all I require in their country.
But the result of all thisprodigal display of wealth and refinement is exceedingly melancholy.
Up to the time of the war and since, we have been a prodigal people, confusing extravagance with generosity, thrift with meanness.
We thread the streets in which I used to hunt for small jewelry and pictures at a bargain, enacting the part of the prodigal son, and providing a dinner of husks for the sake of a feast of gewgaws.
I recall a fine triptych representing the story of the prodigal son in which the chief picture spoke plainly of Paul Veronese, and his Venetian life and coloring.
In this picture the prodigal appeared as the lavish entertainer of gay company.
Souvarow was too brave himself to be prodigal of honours where they were not merited.
Ye have descended to the field of battle In our contention, prodigal of life Ours is the strife, be ours the forfeiture.
He inspired you to give us the Prodigal Son as a model of true conversion, and as the most marvellous proof of the infinite compassion of the dear Saviour for the sinner.
I read the fifteenth chapter of Luke, the return of the prodigal son.
I will not be so great a prodigal of time as to bestow it on commendations of his outward appearance whose inward excellences were his chiefest merit.
He is not prodigal of promises, but his word once given is {285} sacred as holy writ.
To the gay and luxurious life, the almost prodigal entertainment of guests by Sitkans from this time on to 1867, every traveller, from writers and naval officers down to traders, has enthusiastically testified.
