He donated a library to the city, but finally his excessive prodigality in exaggerated yard and military splendor drew the attention of the highest places to the financial situation of his country.
22.
Hafez, the tale goes, bowed deeply and replied, " Alas, O Prince, it is this prodigality which is the cause of the misery in which you find me ".
23.
By the 1820s, a number of magazines and newspapers in Saint Petersburg considered it the best confectioner's shop in the city, described as " temple of kickshaw and prodigality ".
24.
During Junot's diplomatic mission to Lisbon, his wife so displayed her prodigality, that on his return to Paris in 1806 he was burdened with debts, which his own intrigues did not lessen.
25.
Another big problem for the Duke was the prodigality of his oldest son, Frederick Casimir, who was named ruler over Fryat�t and Skocz�w in 1560, and five years later, he also received Bielsko.
26.
Lust has encouraged the son to prodigality, for his fortunes fade not for his own self-centered " riotous living ", but for the sake of pleasing the woman by buying her valuable presents.
27.
Academic Douglas Robillard praised the manner in which Knight illustrated many of his themes, declaring that " Knight shows a prodigality of invention in his tale, capable of sustaining a much longer novel, or even another book ".
28.
Thomas Henderson states in the Dictionary of National Biography that " In David Lindsay, . . . the prodigality and lawlessness, which had more or less characterised the descendants of the'wicked master', reached their climax ".
29.
The " Daily Mirror " of 13 June 1932 said, " The plots are so good that one marvels at the prodigality which has been displayed, as most of them would have made a full-length thriller ."
30.
From the end of his driveway, I tried to take in the cedars, the restored antique windmill, the pond, the two orchid sheds, the orchards, the ornamental plants and the sheer prodigality of the citrus and tropical fruit plantings.
