As the two Caucs appeared he rose slightly, a prodigious effort.

This is something that, despite prodigious efforts, he has not done.

With prodigious effort, he pulled himself bodily through the opening and out of the forward cabin.

With a prodigious effort he hauled himself to his feet and stumbled off along the beach.

He stressed the words and Alfred frowned with a prodigious effort of memory.

The cold, the battles, and the healing had left her drained, until even speech was a prodigious effort.

I tried to sit up and succeeded, after a prodigious effort.

Slowly, with prodigious effort, he drew himself away from the crushing nightmare shape.

Give them a fine reputation to live up to, and they will make prodigious efforts rather than see you disillusioned.

And even if by prodigious effort one human cell were ever completely understood, there are at least 200 different types in the human body.