Both Uses of
prodigious
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The middle-aged man turned out to be a prodigious personage—no less a one than the county judge—altogether the most august creation these children had ever looked upon—and they wondered what kind of material he was made of—and they half wanted to hear him roar, and were half afraid he might, too.†
Chpt 4 *
- Each lad had an income, now, that was simply prodigious—a dollar for every week-day in the year and half of the Sundays.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(prodigious) enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree