He has performed prodigious labors.
From 1802 until his appointment as an assistant examiner of correspondence at the East India Company in 1819 Mill's literary labors were prodigious.
The writer's father, a Presbyterian clergyman, quit preaching to devote his life to pushing anto-child-labor legislation, in Washington, D.C. Paradoxically, the writer's own labors as a child were prodigious, involuntary and underpaid; he worked like a dog from the age of six onwards for no other compensation than a weekly allowance.
By St. Clair McKelway The New Yorker, October 12 , 1963P. 193 The writer's father, a Presbyterian clergyman, quit preaching to devote his life to pushing anto-child-labor legislation, in Washington, D.C. Paradoxically, the writer's own labors as a child were prodigious, involuntary and underpaid; he worked like a dog from the age of six onwards for no other compensation than a weekly allowance.
But for all the prodigious research that makes this an obvious labor of love and only half of a projected two-volume opus, there is something essential missing.
Beyond the growth potential, Publicis executives see these economies as important sources of low-cost labor for a Digitas subsidiary called Prodigious, a digital production unit that works with all agencies in the Publicis Groupe.
Hospitals produce prodigious amounts of waste each day, with operating rooms (ORs) and labor and delivery units contributing the majority.
He wrote to a friend: "What labor, what perplexity, what vexation, I have endured in arranging a prodigious multiplexity of materials, in supplying omissions, in searching for papers, buried in different masses -- and all this besides the exertion of composing and polishing.
Mrs. Clinton has been a prodigious raiser of soft money, the unlimited and largely unregulated donations made by corporations, labor unions and wealthy individuals to political parties for party-building activities.
Prodigious activities beckoned.
