He had the campaigns of Marlborough, the strategy of Turenne, the inspirations of the great Frederick, and the prodigies of Napoleon, as readily on the end of his tongue as his comrades had the struggles of the Giant Killer or the tactics of Robinson Crusoe.

Papa, anxious to watch the unfolding of the human mind, and its gradual development, would take the baby-prodigy in his arms, and with keen glance directed upon its face, repeat, in thrilling tones, the sublime words.

But we have not yet done with new worlds or new prodigies on our way to London, as any Londoner may ascertain for himself, if he will run out a few miles by rail, and look in any cutting or pit, where the surface of the chalk, and the beds which lie on it, are exposed.

But the Son of God, who had not been sparing of His prodigies for the salvation of others, spared them for Himself, and would not say a single word about His own safety.

The juvenile criminal was regarded as a prodigy with a capacity for crimes far beyond his years.

For far toward the western horizon appeared such a prodigy as the eye of no man aboard that ship had ever beheld.

The youthful prodigy at first was greatly admired by the veteran teacher; but Abélard soon began to question him and argue with him.

He was a natural curiosity, a speculation to the scientific, a prodigy to the simple.

Some have thought to explain the prodigy by that superior instinct known as intuition; but the discovery of the word does not open the arcanum.

"The Relations, likewise, of SEFANUS's death and the prodigies before it, are remarkable.

our own prodigies against us turn!

She could earn four dollars a week by embroidering (at which she was skilful, and had taken premiums); or two dollars and a half for teaching French, twice a week, in a country seminary; or her board and washing for inducting a family of four little musical prodigies into all the mysteries of the piano.