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Definition of Prodigals
1. prodigal [n] - See also: prodigal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prodigals
Literary usage of Prodigals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biblical Counsel: Resources for Renewal : an Annotated Topical Bibliography by Steven C. Kettler (1993)
"Graham, Ruth Bell, prodigals and Those Who Love Them (Colorado Springs, ...
Stories of other prodigals, some famous, some not, whose retum to our Father ..."
2. An Introduction to Poetry by Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty (1922)
"THE prodigals "Princes!—and you, most valorous, Nobles and Barons of all degrees!
Hearken awhile to the prayer of us,— Beggars that come from the over-seas! ..."
3. A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems by Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1875)
"prodigals. A.GAIN, in the Book of Books, to-day [ read of that Prodigal, far away
In the centuries agone, Who took the portion that to him fell, ..."