For others, his youthful success was the mark of a prodigious military talent, divine favour and personal brio that merited popular support.

Sertorius owed some of his success to his prodigious ability as a statesman.

In 1843 he published Jérôme Paturot a la recherche d ' une position sociale, a clever social satire that had a prodigious success.

LaLanne also gained recognition for his success as a bodybuilder, as well as for his prodigious feats of strength.

But the work had a prodigious success, and was translated into several languages, even into Chinese.

I hope you will not repent you of the pains you have taken in so laudable a piece, so much to your own and the nation's credit, but rather, after you shall have a little diverted yourself with other studies, that you will resume those contemplations wherein you had so great success, and attempt the perfection of the lunar theory, which will be of prodigious use in navigation, as well as of profound and public speculation.

Although some prefer the 1940 sound version starring Tyrone Power, Fairbanks ' prodigious athletic prowess and tremendous enthusiasm made the original movie a great success, leading to a whole series of similar swashbuckler roles for Fairbanks, including The Three Musketeers ( 1921 ), Robin Hood ( 1922 ) and The Thief of Bagdad ( 1924 ).

Although Thomas never repeated the prodigious success of Charley's Aunt, he maintained a career as an actor and dramatist until his death, acting mostly in comedy, but with occasional serious roles in the plays of Shakespeare and others.

Algeria has always been a source of inspiration for different painters who tried to immortalize the prodigious diversity of the sites it offers and the profusion of the facets that passes its population, which offers for Orientalists between the 19 < sup > th </ sup > century and the 20 < sup > th </ sup > century, a striking inspiration for a very rich artistic creation like Eugène Delacroix with his famous painting women of Algiers in their apartment or Etienne Dinet or other painters of world fame like Pablo Picasso with his painting women of Algiers, or painters issued from the Algiers school.

This earlier collection — which includes the famous Jelly Roll Morton, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Muddy Waters sessions, as well as Lomax ’ s prodigious collections made in Haiti and Eastern Kentucky ( 1937 ) — is the provenance of the American Folklife Center " at the library of Congress

Major's appearance was noted in its greyness, his prodigious philtrum, and large glasses, all of which were exaggerated in caricatures.

** Paced by a prodigious home run by Reggie Jackson which hits a transformer on the roof of Tiger Stadium, the American League defeats the National League 6-4 in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Detroit.

Although bats and purple martins can be prodigious consumers of insects, many of which are pests, less than 1 % of their diet typically consists of mosquitoes.

He maintained contact with these other monasteries above all through his prodigious literary output ( letters as well as catechisms ), which reached a quantitative peak at this time, and developed a system of messengers that was so elaborate as to resemble a private postal service.

It was only after Claver's death that the vast scope of his ministry came to be realized ; which was prodigious even before the astronomical number of people he baptized is added in.

Of his adolescent years, a remarkable picture is painted in Heimskringla, which recounts that Eric, aged twelve and seemingly possessed of prodigious valour and strength, embarked on a career of international piracy: four years were spent harrying the Baltic coasts and those of Denmark, Frisia and Germany (' Saxland '); another four years those of Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France ; and lastly, Lappland and Bjarmaland ( in what is now northern Russia ).

Many of the projects were set in motion by Johnson, Depp & Quisenberry, a firm of consulting engineers then engaged in a runway redesign at the County Airport ; the ' Depp ' in question was a member of an old and prodigious Kentucky family which includes the town's most famous son, actor Johnny Depp.

At the end of the life of the palm, which may be 75 to 100 years, it produces a large terminal inflorescence about a metre high with a prodigious number of flowers.

Prynne vented his malice in a couple of pamphlets: A Fresh Discovery of prodigious Wandering: Stars and Firebrands, and The Liar Confounded, to which Lilburne replied in Innocency and Truth Justified ( 1645 ).

The city also has an impressively prodigious cattle feed lot in its outskirts, which contains thousands upon thousands of cows.

Describing the cove in 1779, Adam Walker said, " This beautiful rock is like the age-tinted wall of a prodigious castle ; the stone is very white, and from the ledges hang various shrubs and vegetables, which with the tints given it by the bog water.

The orations were followed by a prodigious quantity of Latin verse, which appeared in successive volumes in 1533, 1534, 1539, 1546 and 1547 ; of these, a friendly critic, Mark Pattison, is obliged to approve the judgment of Pierre Daniel Huet, who says, " par ses poésies brutes et informes Scaliger a déshonoré le Parnasse "; yet their numerous editions show that they commended themselves not only to his contemporaries, but to succeeding scholars.

The " prodigious new expansion of multinational capital ends up penetrating and colonizing those very pre-capitalist enclaves ( Nature and the Unconscious ) which offered extraterritorial and Archimedean footholds for critical effectivity ".

In 1872 Airy conceived the idea of treating the lunar theory in a new way, and at the age of seventy-one he embarked on the prodigious toil which this scheme entailed.

According to Guccione in a 1980 Penthouse magazine interview, Vidal ( whom Guccione called a " prodigious talent ") started trouble with a Time magazine interview in which he called directors " parasites living off writers ", and that the director need only follow the directions provided by the author of the screenplay.

In recognition of his prodigious feats of exploration, regarding which Colonel Henry Yule commented that " his explorations have added a larger amount of important knowledge to the map of Asia than any other living man ", Nain Singh was presented with an inscribed gold chronometer by the Royal Geographic Society ( RGS ) in 1868.

Burney commented on Galuppi's prodigious workload that in addition to his duties at St Mark's and the Incurabili, " he has a hundred sequins a year as domestic organist to the family of Gritti, and is organist of another church, of which I have forgotten the name ".

He is best known for his prodigious corpus of more than seven-hundred verse homilies, or mêmrê (), of which only 225 have thus far been edited and published.

Savantism is a rare condition in which people with neurodevelopmental disorders, notably autism spectrum disorders, and / or brain injuries, demonstrate profound and prodigious capacities and / or abilities far in excess of what would be considered normal.

According to Darold Treffert, the leading researcher in the study of savant syndrome, almost all savants have special, prodigious memory, which he describes as " very deep, but exceedingly narrow ".

But Birley admitted that Trueman eventually became " an immensely popular public figure " thanks to his " rudimentary sense of humour, prodigious memory and forthright views ", all of which made him a media favourite on the one hand but, on the other, the same qualities made him " less popular on the county cricket circuit ", where he was " dreaded off the field like the Ancient Mariner ".

Remington ’ s regular attendance at celebrity banquets and stag dinners, however, though helpful to his career, fostered prodigious eating and drinking which caused his girth to expand alarmingly.

According to David Ragan's Stars of the ' 30s, the McCreas were prodigious savers, accumulating a large estate, which included working-ranch properties.

A prodigious view of the Tatras as they may have appeared to Matúška's rebellious friends

His output in every field during his long life was prodigious ; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century.

Because of the city's location on the Mississippi River, in the 19th century it built an extensive trade from the river's prodigious steamboat traffic.

The English term Devil's Peak is a 19th century translation from the Dutch Duiwels Kop, and supposedly comes from the folk-tale about a Dutch man called Jan van Hunks, a prodigious pipe smoker who lived at the foot of the mountain circa 1700.

In 2009, Roger Scruton wrote, " Campbell wrote vigorous rhyming pentameters, into which he instilled the most prodigious array of images and the most intoxicating draft of life of any poet of the 20th century ...

Despite being a very popular author for 19th century readers, few people are even aware of his prodigious body of literature spanning many genres.

" Some visitors around the beginning of the 20th century criticized it as " a prodigious tortoise that has lost its way " or " the Church of the Holy Turtle ," but Frank Lloyd Wright dubbed the tabernacle " one of the architectural masterpieces of the country and perhaps the world.

Preston ’ s prodigious artistic output, her innovative, passionate, and lifelong pursuit of an Australian sensibility in her art, and her commitment to the development a national cultural identity, confirm her importance as one of the dominant exponents of the Modernist aesthetic in 20th century Australian art.

Chang Dai-chien () ( May 10, 1899 – April 2, 1983 ) was one of the best-known and most prodigious Chinese artists of the twentieth century.

Short even for the 19th century ( less than five feet four or 162 centimetres ) Briggs ' skill lay in his ability to vary the flight and pace of the ball as well as in achieving prodigious spin on the primitive pitches of the nineteenth century.