All 9 Uses of
prodigious
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
- That prodigious creature, said to possess the keys of Nostradamus, was a gloomy man, enveloped in a sad aura, with an Asiatic look that seemed to know what there was on the other side of things.†
Chpt 1
- It seemed so simple and so prodigious at the same time that overnight he lost all interest in his experiments in alchemy.†
Chpt 1
- He tried to seduce her with the charm of his fantasy, with the promise of a prodigious world where all one had to do was sprinkle some magic liquid on the ground and the plants would bear fruit whenever a man wished, and where all manner of instruments against pain were sold at bargain prices.†
Chpt 1
- Without knowing what to say, he paid ten reales more so that his sons could have that prodigious experience.†
Chpt 1
- Maddened by that prodigious plaything, Jose Arcadio followed her path every night through the labyrinth of the room.†
Chpt 2
- a prodigious variety of puddings, meringues, and cookies,
Chpt 3 *prodigious = enormous (far beyond what is usual in magnitude)
- He went out into the courtyard at ten minutes after four, when he heard the distant brass instruments, the beating of the bass drum and the shouting of the children, and for the first time since his youth he knowingly fell into a trap of nostalgia and relived that prodigious afternoon Of the gypsies when his father took him to see ice.†
Chpt 13
- it came from much farther off, unearthed by the rain's pitchfork from the days when in Melquiades' room he would read the prodigious fables about flying carpets and whales that fed on entire ships and their crews.†
Chpt 16
- Not because he was paralyzed by horror but because at that prodigious instant Melquiades' final keys were revealed to him and he saw the epigraph of the parchments perfectly placed in the order of man's time and space: The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree