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
"What would she do, I wonder, if the prodigal returned," he said quietly.
From The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
Yet the days went by, and the weeks grew long, and no prodigal returned.
From The Flag by Homer Greene
For the first twelve months Ibsen enjoyed the pleasures of the prodigal returned, and fed with gusto on the fatted calf.
From Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse
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
