prodigalities

Without reflecting that the avarice of parents prepares the way for the prodigalities of children, he allowed almost nothing to his son, although that son was an only child.

A Marriage Contract 2007

He dipped his pen in ink and wrote, "In farces, in masquing, and in other prodigalities, fain would the fools have counterfeited France."

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

He dipped his pen in ink and wrote, "In farces, in masquing, and in other prodigalities, fain would the fools have counterfeited France."

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

Popular through his small prodigalities, he, at thirty, possessed a more than local reputation for the completeness of his assortment of salacious stories -- his memory and native social instinct were herein successfully utilized.

Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll

His revenues were princely; but his prodigalities might have made an emperor a bankrupt.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 493, June 11, 1831 Various

He who knows how to turn his prodigalities to good account, practises a large and noble economy.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

The actress was a favorite in certain circles and had been very much courted; and this other form of rivalry, springing from the glitter of the footlights, added so much the more fuel to the prodigalities of the inflammable young officer.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Youthful prodigalities are apt to bring worries in their train -- chiefly in the shape of Jews, sir, and devilish bad shapes too!

The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

Their readiness to pay was indefinably mingled with a dread of being expected to, and their prodigalities would take flight at the first hint of coercion.

The Last Asset. 1904

Twenty dollars is inclosed in each of these letters, probably as a bribe to Jane Clemens to be lenient with his prodigalities, which in his youthful love of display he could not bring himself to conceal.

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899