They lunched in amazing magnificence at the Bear's Paw, and then walked through the crowded and prodigious streets to Prince's landing-stage.
Ephraim Tellwright the investor was usually as shy as a well-fed trout, and this capture of him by a youngster only two years established in business might fairly be regarded as a prodigious feat.
"He will be a prodigious inconvenience to me," still persisted Mr.
Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning.
Top darted after them as fast as his four legs could carry him, but the emus distanced him with ease, so prodigious was their speed.
What his object can be in acting thus, in concealing himself after rendering us so many services, I cannot understand: But his services are not the less real, and are of such a nature that only a man possessed of prodigious power, could render them.
But the immediate step to future success was to bring on Tom Tulliver during this first half-year; for, by a singular coincidence, there had been some negotiation concerning another pupil from the same neighbourhood and it might further a decision in Mr Stelling's favour, if it were understood that young Tulliver, who, Mr Stelling observed in conjugal privacy, was rather a rough cub, had made prodigious progress in a short time.
It was now but an hour later than the time fixed on for the beginning of their walk; and, in spite of what she had heard of the prodigious accumulation of dirt in the course of that hour, she could not from her own observation help thinking that they might have gone with very little inconvenience.
I bought one for her the other day, and it was pronounced to be a prodigious bargain by every lady who saw it.
The middle-aged man turned out to be a prodigious personage—no less a one than the county judge—altogether the most august creation these children had ever looked upon—and they wondered what kind of material he was made of—and they half wanted to hear him roar, and were half afraid he might, too.
In some years, April bursts upon Virginia hills in one prodigious leap and all the stage is filled at once, whole choruses of tulips, arabesques of forsythia, cadenzas of flowering plum.
They're a prodigious interface.
Its appetite for all kinds of vegetation must have been prodigious.
But the "beautiful mind" that gave him such prodigious mathematical talent was indivisible from the one which spawned powerful delusions.
Indeed, Samuel Johnson, a prodigious worrier himself, called worry a "disease of the imagination".
" Prodigious!
They were now worth three hundred million dollars; they were in every board of directors of every prodigious combine in the country; and still as time drifted along, the millions went on piling up, five at a time, ten at a time, as fast as they could tally them off, almost.
You do not believe we could have achieved these prodigious results without His special help and guidance, do you?
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
By the age of six, Chopin was creating original pieces, showing innate prodigious musical ability.