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Mr. Ogilvy, who was educated at Oxford and later became a chef, writes in propulsive prose that elevates this, his first book, above a simple history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Golding is writing about the instability of the self, after all, and his prose enacts that instability: shifting perspectives and uncertain ground, relieved by moments of sudden, disquieting clarity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

It’s very sentimental — which the novel, with its matter-of-fact, if sensually evocative prose, and it’s child’s eye view, is not.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

But his impenetrable prose -- used to avoid committing to any particular course -- and his confidence in unfettered markets and institutions to correct themselves frustrated critics, who believed the US economy needed stronger guardrails.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

I was on the debating society my first year and was chosen to represent the school in Afrikaans, Tsonga and English prose and poetry reading during inspection.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

It contains drawings and proses which have nothing but a formal, not an illustrative or explanatory, relation to each other.

From Time Magazine Archive

Free interchange of poetries and proses, of heroic sentiments and opinions, between the Unique of Sages and the Paragon of Crown-Princes; how charming to both!

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 by Thomas Carlyle

The “Laetabundus” is in rhymed stanzas; in this it differs from most early proses.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

It was Fun to write jolly compositions and Fun to set proses out of George Meredith which bore no relation to classical thought or idiom and couldn't conceivably be translated into reasonable Latin or Greek.

From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown

Never mind how the pedagogue proses,   You want not antiquity's stamp, The lip that's so scented by roses,   Oh! never must smell of the lamp.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton

A similar bill prosed in the Senate would change visitation restrictions specifically for nursing homes, although the measure has not yet been placed on the Legislature’s agenda.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2021

She might, indeed, have been supposed A great ship owner; for she prosed Eternally of her Three Masters!

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood

Before many days the occasion of my haste will be ascertained, and that it had no reference to the watchmen; and the prosecution will be voluntarily nol prosed.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 by Various

It was not his way to treat subjects coldly and vaguely; he rarely generalized, never prosed.

From Villette by Charlotte Brontë

No one talked but Ruskin, and he prosed, and his prose of speech was not his prose of pen.

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

Most of the time all the spectator sees is Spencer Tracy sitting in a rowboat and mumbling to himself, and all he hears is Hemingway's own narrative prosing along the sound track.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now, Roque," he said, "you must allow I have listened very attentively to your prosing.

From Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. by Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío

Pardon me, gentle reader, for all this prosing.

From My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks

She wanted Wagram to herself, and here Gibson sat prosing his tiresome old sea yarns.

From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford

And, mercy on us, what sermons they preached in those cold old churches, prosing away sometimes for two hours at a time!

From The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut