Then the risk of prodigality and corruption is high, for their capital expenditure is great, and the check of public criticism very distant and ineffectual.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
"Promise me you'll never speak of it again; promise me you'll never think of it even," she implored, with a tearful prodigality of italics.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
The banjo was there, a point of dazzling light to her eyes, but otherwise the disorder was far from elegant; resulting chiefly from that reckless prodigality in head and foot gear which seems to be a phase of masculine culture.
"Stories of the Foot-hills"
Margaret Collier Graham