prosy

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Prosy was the first issue of Time on March 3, 1923.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over the elder, still with the curly locks of the group in the "St. Paul Basilica," is written Prosy; over the younger, Hanns.

From Holbein by Fortescue, Beatrice

As everything points to the conclusion that Holbein was born in 1497, he would have been some seventeen years old at this time, and "Prosy" eighteen or nineteen.

From Holbein by Fortescue, Beatrice

Prosy she undoubtedly was, but not commonplace, for invariable contentment and unbounded good-nature are more and more difficult to find in this censorious world.

From The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town by Christy, F. Earl

And there, now I come to think of it, I've never so much as seen the Octopus since Prosy and I got engaged.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend