"'Then who's the somebody?' says I. 'For the land sakes! tell me. It's as big a miracle as the prodigal son.'
"I remember now that the prodigal son ain't a miracle, but I was excited then. "'Stitt,' says he, 'I am the "somebody," as you call it. I have decided to let my own wishes and inclinations count for nothin' in this affair, and to accept the office of president myself. It will be announced at the meetin'.'
"I whistled. 'By gum!' says I.英文原著 · 《The Depot Master》
"I will tell you, Master Scarlett Trent," he said, "I will tell you why I crave for wealth. You are a young and an ignorant man. Amongst other things you do not know what money will buy. You have your coarse pleasures I do not doubt, which seem sweet to you! Beyond them - what? A tasteless and barbaric display, a vulgar generosity, an ignorant and purposeless prodigality. How different it is with those who know! There are many things, my young friend, which I learned in my younger days, and amongst them was the knowledge of how to spend money.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
"In youth sad fancies we affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness."英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
A man sells his soul to the devil for the gaining of what is to him the world. That is one of a good many ideas which the Bible has given to literature. The prodigal son has been another prolific source of literary writing. The guiding star is another. Others will readily come to mind.英文原著 · 《A Study of Bible》
The dragoman made coffee over a little fire of sticks that blazed with a white light. The whole thing was prodigal, but any philanthropist would have approved of it if he could have seen the way in which the eight students laid into the spread. When there came a polite remonstrance-notably from Mrs. Wainwright-Coleman merely pointed to a large bundle strapped back of the groom's saddle. During the coffee he was considering how best to get the students one by one out of the sight of the Wainwrights where he could give them good drinks of whisky.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
VENTIDIUS. Behold, you Powers, To whom you have intrusted humankind! See Europe, Afric, Asia, put in balance, And all weighed down by one light, worthless woman! I think the gods are Antonies, and give, Like prodigals, this nether world away To none but wasteful hands.英文原著 · 《All For Love》
The stories are as old as time itself... the prodigal son who returns home to the father who forgives him... the jealous wife who tricks the husband who trust her... the desperate mother who risks everything for the child who needs her and the faithless husband who hurts the wife who loves him so de美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
And now, as the Prodigal Husband home from the sea, let me raise a glass to my extraordinary wife美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
Louis, that's not a mental-- Mike Ross, the prodigal son, returns.美剧 · 《Suits》