prodigal returned
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Despite being jettisoned at fly-half when the prodigal returned in the autumn, Kinghorn is playing some of the best stuff of his life in his new-old role.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2023
After some years' wandering the prodigal returned, and a reconciliation took place, as the result of which they became business partners once more.
From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by C. E. (Clara Elizabeth) Fanning
Three hours after sunrise the prodigal returned, lightfooted, gay of mien.
From The Rocks of Valpre by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
Punctually on Christmas Day the prodigal returned from his farthest wanderings, and made for Prior Street as for his home.
From The Helpmate by May Sinclair
Wherefore he came home one dry dull day in October, and the neighborhood welcomed him, if not as their prodigal returned, yet as their lunatic restored to his right mind.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various
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