Both Uses of
prodigy
in
The Age of Innocence
- Gigantic pansies, considerably larger than the roses, and closely resembling the floral pen-wipers made by female parishioners for fashionable clergymen, sprang from the moss beneath the rose-trees; and here and there a daisy grafted on a rose-branch flowered with a luxuriance prophetic of Mr. Luther Burbank's far-off prodigies.†
Chpt 1 *
- There was something superhuman in an attitude so recklessly unorthodox, and if other problems had not pressed on him he would have been lost in wonder at the prodigy of the Wellands' daughter urging him to marry his former mistress.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(prodigy) someone with exceptional ability -- especially at a young age
or:
an impressive example of something