proser
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The consequence was, I soon got the name of an intolerable proser, and should in a little while have been completely excommunicated had I not changed my plan of operations.
From Tales of a Traveller by Washington Irving
Truth was, my outward eyes were closed, Although I did not know it; Deep into dream-land I had dozed, And thus was happily transposed From proser into poet.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
A painter and composer Of taste and spirit when he wooed his bride;— What wonder if the man became a proser When she was snugly settled by his side?
From Love's Comedy by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
"What a bore that must be he is a most insufferable proser."
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
Let a good, thorough-paced proser get hold of one of these stories, and he carefully desiccates them of whatever fancy may be left, till he has reduced them to the proper dryness of fact.
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
If the poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction.
From Time Magazine Archive
Have I not read lives of all the illustrious prosers you gave me to look through?
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever
He would be the awfullest of prosers if he had the gift of the gab.’
From That Stick by Charlotte Mary Yonge
But Saddletree, like other prosers, was blessed with a happy obtuseness of perception concerning the unfavourable impression which he sometimes made on his auditors.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Sir Walter Scott
I’m sick of the prosers, that house up At drowsy St Stephen’s,—ain’t you?
From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Richard Doyle
