prodigal returned

I lingered a little longer yet, ashamed at the part of the prodigal returned, which I feared I should play.

If the prodigal returned by daylight and found us together, he would disport himself at our feet in a brief agony of penitence.

For the first twelve months Ibsen enjoyed the pleasures of the prodigal returned, and fed with gusto on the fatted calf.

He had seen a scene just like that, where the old man sat in the sun and the Prodigal returned.

Yet the days went by, and the weeks grew long, and no prodigal returned.