prodigally

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In the troupe’s farewell this week to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a longtime home for the company, it presents, prodigally, three different programs in four performances only.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2011

The Army & Navy hold that there is such a case: >The prodigally democratic U.S. had very few real secrets left to keep when it went to war.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were so prodigally good that the U.S. would be able to go on feeding half a world and still provide bigger meals for the dining-room tables of its own wellfed people.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the panic of 1893 financial ruin struck the Willkies and a few years later Elwood's natural gas, prodigally wasted, played out.

From Time Magazine Archive

I saw her form, by Nature's hand So prodigally finished, She were less perfect if enlarged, Less perfect if diminished; Her toilet I surprised—the worst Of wonders then achieving; None knew the bustle I perceived!

From The Coo-ee Reciter by Various