prodigally

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In the troupe’s farewell this week to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a longtime home for the company, it presents, prodigally, three different programs in four performances only.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2011

"Singer's wife is washing Singer's socks in the kitchen sink and weeping prodigally," a fairly typical episode begins.

From Time Magazine Archive

A superior film spectacle based on Jean Anouilh's pungent drama has a prodigally talented cast headed by Richard Burton as England's 12th century religious martyr and Peter OToole as Henry II.

From Time Magazine Archive

They constitute an unprecedented labor army, which can be, and has been, rushed to every threatened sector, there to construct cement fortlets, dig bunkers, repair breaches and sow mines as prodigally as wheat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gold was so prodigally lavished on its interior that it bore the name of Coricancha, that is to say, "the place of gold."

From Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by R?ville, Albert