Example Sentences

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Having once started, there maybe no end to the family of Prodigals.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 by Various

He followed up this by adding to his essay on education a twentieth tome, containing recipes for the "Reformation of Prodigals."

From Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance by Burton, Isabel, Lady

"Prodigals ruin themselves, but they enrich the State."

From Essays on Political Economy by Bastiat, Frédéric

Prodigals returning deserve nothing, and yet obtain all.

From The Parables of Our Lord by Arnot, William

Prodigals now, as in the time when Christ lived, have a very hard time of it.

From With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul by Stall, Sylvanus