A dragoon sergeant, a man of great resolution and of prodigious strength, appeared to be the leader of the party, and encouraged his followers both by word and example.
Of a Passage of Arms at the Blue Boar I had slept several hours when I was suddenly aroused by a prodigious crash, followed by the clash of arms and shrill cries from the lower floor.
Secondly, a prodigious quantity of assurance, that neither God nor man can daunt, founded on the honest principle of "who is like unto me?
It was the old story—that from the positive, the prodigious morality of such a painter of the sophisticated life as Dumas, not from anything else or less edifying, one must pray to be delivered.
The voice was followed by theprodigious bodily apparition of Mrs. Wragge, with her cap all awry, and one of her shoes in the next room.
Even Mrs. Wragge contributes her quota to this prodigious enterprise.
My department in theprodigious Enterprise already mentioned is to scour the United Kingdom in a gig, establishing Agencies everywhere.
It was in Latin of prodigious length; but the following are the clauses as I make them out, and will suffice for this work.
On the other hand, the plan he had in view imposed prodigious work upon his own animal.
In the dim obscurity they saw a dark mass of rock, weighing hundreds of tons, descending like a prodigious meteor, hurled from the heavens.
The oppressive silence was broken by a prodigious sigh from Ruggles.
This was a prodigious sentence for Wade, and he leaned back and smoked his pipe with considerable self-complacency, but it impressed none of his hearers as he expected.
That fame, prodigious in her own day, is serviceable in ours.
Its abrogation coincided with the fall of Macedon and the return of AEmilius Paulus, bringing with him the sack of seventy cities, the prodigious booty of ravaged Greece, the prelude to that of the East.
The value attached to it, prodigious in peace, was potent in war, potent in law.
At times, when Peter sat working over the books in the library, the Captain felt a prodigious urge to lay a hand on the young man's broad and capable shoulder.
Because with negroes, as with white persons, two thirds of humor is in the reputation, and Jim Pink was of prodigious repute.
When this was safely accomplished, the first thing that the giant did was to stretch himself; and you may imagine what a prodigious spectacle he was then.
It was in this journey, if I mistake not, that he encountered a prodigious giant, who was so wonderfully contrived by nature, that every time he touched the earth he became ten times as strong as ever he had been before.
THE YEARS IN ROME Rome, that prodigiousrepository of art!
How he loves them, and how well he understands the prodigiousgreatness of certain ones among them!
It was an awful thing to think of her being hard-up and himself rolling in this prodigious and ill-gotten fortune.
Jemmy recognised the stentorian voice of one of his brothers at a prodigious distance.
This would have been a prodigious task, for it is considered a good day's work to skin and stake the hides of fifteen or sixteen animals.
Amateurism was to be absolutely untainted by professionalism in the prodigious affair; therefore the prices of tickets ruled high, and queens had conferred their patronage.
The parish, in effect, was first an immense monastery, where the monks, determined to do themselves extremely well in dignified peace, had made a prodigious and not entirely unsuccessful effort to keep out the excitable sex.
For now we could begin to see a part of the orb of the sun itself, prodigious in size, and poised on the edge of the gem-glittering horizon, where the jeweled summits split its beams into a thousand haloes.
We observed that these people walked at a very great rate, and that they took prodigious large strides.
A magnificent specimen of a black is that of a gentleman in a huge broad-brimmed straw hat, with the name and address written on an equally prodigious collar.
Frederick noticed particularly two chests of prodigious size which stood in the corners.
Frederick spoke in a very laudatory style about Senecal's prodigious attainments, pointing out that he was at the same time an engineer, a chemist, and an accountant, being a mathematician of the first rank.
They would make a prodigious affair of it, and we will not give them occasion to say we have been at variance.
Prodigious sums were by them distributed among the poor; more than five hundred respectable impoverished Romans, who had been accused of political offences, were secretly supported by them.
As a matter of fact, airships and aeroplanes are absolutely superfluous--and the time, money and labour they involve is a prodigious waste.
