Both Uses of
prodigious
in
Hard Times
- Remarking this at a glance, with the quick observation of his class, Stephen Blackpool bent his attentive face — his face, which, like the faces of many of his order, by dint of long working with eyes and hands in the midst of a prodigious noise, had acquired the concentrated look with which we are familiar in the countenances of the deaf — the better to hear what she asked him.†
Chpt 1.12
- Thus Slackbridge; gnashing and perspiring after a prodigious sort.†
Chpt 3.4 *
Definition:
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(prodigious) enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree