His labors were prodigious as theologian, commentator, and ecclesiastical legislator; and we are surprised that a man with so feeble a body could have done so much work.

He got a prodigious in the University and was hailed as a sort of Crichton: and as for the English verse prize, although Jones carried it that year, the undergraduates thought Pen's a much finer poem, and he had his verses printed at his own expense, and distributed in gilt morocco covers amongst his acquaintance.

[Footnote 8: The numerical strength of the Persian and Túránian forces appears prodigious on all occasions, but nothing when compared with the army under Xerxes at Thermopylae, which, with the numerous retinue of servants, eunuchs, and women that attended it, is said to have amounted to no less than 5,283,220 souls.

He shifted the light suddenly on to Neddy, whose proportions seemed to loom out prodigious from the surrounding darkness.

"Sir," said Mr. Edwards, "I remember you would not let us say prodigious at college.

And the loss of lives will be more prodigious than ever.

"It is prodigious to me," he said, in full meeting of the committee, "that people will still talk of arresting others for expressing their opinions.