Then," said Cesare, "some wizard must have extracted them to serve him in his black art, and has let the serpent go free knowing that it is only by the eye of a living basilisk that this prodigy can be wrought.
Comprehending immediately that I would be held responsible for the miscarriage of the prodigy I hastily made my escape from the villa, nor did I, until long thereafter, meet with any of the parties concerned in this adventure.
Too gentle a death,” wrote the harsh Quicke, “for such a prodigy of ungodliness.
So also Polwhele, in his History of Devonshire, 1793, says: “The prodigy of the white bird .
Save one--far and away the most colossal prodigy of the entire accumulation--Shakespeare!
He was a genius without a mate, a prodigy not matable.
It was a prodigy of lightness and strength, of no weight whatever in comparison with the power it displayed.
If it fills you with astonishment, that is perhaps because you are in the habit of treating as a prodigy anything that strikes you as being beyond your own strength.
I have spoken of the arithmetical prodigy as possessing a kind of internal blackboard, on which he inscribes with ease and permanence his imaginary memoranda.
The prodigy grown to manhood, who now recognises the arithmetical artifices which he used unconsciously as a boy, resembles the hypnotic subject trained by suggestion to remember in waking hours the events of the trance.
An unlucky prodigy occurred to Gracchus, while sacrificing, previous to his departure from Lucania.
He saw it, fuming, from vast cauldron rise; From whence this prodigyhis spirit drew, Achieving thus what met the wondering view!
Such a prodigy had never been heard of, and perhaps will never again appear, as that of a secluded scholar, studying all his life, suddenly coming to light with unheard-of knowledge.
Thus was this true mechanical prodigy of the age treated as though it were of little or no interest.
I also wished to take my daughter, who, according to her mother, had become a prodigy of grace and beauty.
He also introduced me to a girl of sixteen, a veritable prodigy of beauty, who served at the bar of a tavern at which we took a bottle of strong beer.
But I have no means of knowing this, or of telling whether he was the prodigy of intellect that he was declared to be.
Regretting my rashness didn't make the prodigy less.
If they didn't fill mine--even though occupying so large a place in it--was that not only because I had not the direct benefit of them as the other party to the prodigy had it?
I had in other words taken in both the full prodigy of the entente between Mrs. Server's lover and poor Briss's wife, and the finer strength it gave the last-named as the representative of their interest.
In remembrance of that prodigy in nature, Daniel Lambert, a native of Leicester, Who was possessed of an exalted and convivial mind; and, in personal greatness had no competitor.
His place was taken by Péan, of whose private character there is little good to be said, but whose conduct as an officer was such that Duquesne calls him a prodigy of talents, resources, and zeal.
Footnote 72: The Orientals explain the prodigyby a never-failing expedient.
It would be esteemed a prodigy if a dog-rose growing in a hedge produced by bud-variation a moss-rose, or a wild bullace or wild cherry-tree yielded a branch bearing fruit of a different shape and colour from the ordinary fruit.
The prodigy would be enhanced if these varying branches were found capable of propagation, not only by grafts, but sometimes by seed; yet analogous cases have occurred with many of our highly cultivated trees and herbs.
This language turned the tide of the people's feelings and they began to think how they might best secure the monstrous horse and the favorable auguries connected with it, when suddenly a prodigy occurred which left no room to doubt.
Such a prodigy was not likely to be passed over in the legends of the saints.
At that revolution the venerable religious was sorely grieved, and it was considered as a special prodigy that he could escape from so sacrilegious hands.
This district was also the scene of a miracle or prodigy that showed the force of God and the faith.
Was the wonderful event about to take place, the prodigy she awaited?
Although implored and hoped for, the prodigy did not appear, and the room was silent and anxious.
This, then, I repeat, was a prodigy that promised to throw completely in the shade all competitors, in addition to its being an event that had no historical precedence in the annals of music.
