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
Every day when he turned from his office to go home, it was with the unacknowledged hope that he might find the prodigal returned.
From Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves by Alger, Horatio
When the prodigal returned he was not watching with his father, he was “in the field;” when he learned that his brother had been welcomed to the home he was filled with anger.
From The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition by Erdman, Charles Rosenbury
Yet the days went by, and the weeks grew long, and no prodigal returned.
From The Flag by Greene, Homer
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
