What is "prolific"

Usage examples of "prolific".

The Anglophone tradition in this century, which in almost every other respect has made a powerful and prolific contribution to revolutionary historiography, has a particularly egregious record of silent embarrassment, rather as though a dinner guest had met with an unfortunate but inexplicable accident in the college common room.

Challoner quite saw the force of all this, and was at once prolific of plans for the acquiring of a suitable gown, and exclamatory over the pleasure in store for her daughter.

Early in the history of the TPI Mansion site, when the population began to boom, misbehaving users became more prolific.

Alpinadorans that the only thing that had kept the fierce and prolific goblins from overrunning the entire northland was their inability to band together.

Once Hitler was embroiled with Russia, this happy state might have been almost indefinitely prolonged with ever-growing benefits, and Mussolini might have stood forth in the peace or in the closing year of the war as the wisest statesman the sunny peninsula and its industrious and prolific people had known.

In its ground germs it was, it seems to us, unquestionably imported into Celtic thought and Cymrian song from that prolific and immemorial Hindu mind which bore Brahmanism and Buddhism as its fruit.

Low levels, damp surroundings, and marshy localities not only breed malaria and fevers, but are a prolific cause of colds, coughs, and consumption.

Fido, distinguished and prolific author, scholar, criminologist, and now good friend, for his extraordinary contributions to the Jack the Ripper case and our understanding of it, as well as his general good counsel.

Heliades for the premature death of their brother, are the golden shower full of prolific hope, in which Zeus descends from the brazen vault of Heaven into the bosom of the parched ground.

He created a body of work rich enough for the most prolific of careers and he packed in enough adventure for three lifetimes: getting onstage at fourteen, skipping college, gobbling up books, philosophies, films, music, carrying on hundreds of intense friendships, inspiring his peers, making his first appearance on Letterman at twenty-two, searching for UFOs, eating passionately, going vegan, drinking, smoking, tripping, getting sober at twenty-six, playing guitar, singing the blues, writing movies, and, through it all, crossing the country hundreds of times telling his truth.

Among the reasons why they so persistently hunted the earl, his air of a smart correctness shadowed by this new absurdity invited them, as when a spot of mud on the trimmest of countenances arrests observation: Humour plucked at him the more for the good faith of his handsome look under the prolific little disfigurement.

As for the mating cycles, biologists have tracked one family of collared cats through three prolific generations.

Campana and Gordigiani were prolific composers of romanzas and canzonettas of a popular type.

About four days after the receipt of the despatches to which the conference of Captain Lake and the attorney referred, there came a letter from the same prolific correspondent, dated 20th March, from Genoa, which altogether puzzled Mr.

Thou sun, prolific parent of a thousand various productions, by whose genial heat they are nurtured, and whose radiant beams give chearfulness and beauty to the face of nature, first of all the existences of this material universe acknowledge him thy superior, and while thou dispensest a thousand benefits to the inferior creation, ascribe thine excellencies solely to the great source of beauty and perfection!