1 The day following they gave him only ten, and he was regarded by his comrades as a prodigy.
2 It traversed the battle like a prodigy.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED 3 Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE 4 Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND... 5 He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy.
6 Marius was dazzled by this prodigy.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN... 7 Long I gazed at that prodigy of plumage.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale. 8 He was always a Negro prodigy who played barbarously and wonderfully.
9 Heyward lifted his head from the cover, and beheld what he justly considered a prodigy of rashness and skill.
10 There was only one thing wanting to make Mr. Walters' ecstasy complete, and that was a chance to deliver a Bible-prize and exhibit a prodigy.
11 'He is a prodigy,' he said at last.
12 The Turks killed prodigious numbers of the Russians, but the latter had their revenge.
13 You'll make a prodigious fortune; if we cannot find our account in one world we shall in another.
14 It is plain such materials must have prodigious superiority over those pebbles and sand which we call gold and precious stones.
15 The whole of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living manners.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO