proser

Crites, who is not more long-winded than may be permitted to a polite proser, at least on the Thames of a summer evening, somewhat condensed, reasoneth thus.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

I sympathize with you for the dole which you are dreeing under the inflictions of your honest proser.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

"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

He is as little of a proser as possible, but he blurts out the finest wit and sense in the world.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin

Here offers you still the full use of his breath, Your devoted and long-winded proser till death.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti

If the poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction.

From Time Magazine Archive

He read his Swinburne again, and unearthed from the bottom of a trunk some books that dealt with the decadent's joys,—poets of the Flesh, and prosers of the Devil, in his many weary forms.

From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren

From the prosers that one hears in pulpits, legislatures, lecture-rooms, at morning calls and well-appointed dinner-tables in Anglo-America, let no man infer against our poetic endowment.

From Essays Æsthetical by George H. (George Henry) Calvert

Love to all my friends, poets, prosers, and the dear ——, who are that most excellent thing, readers.

From Yesterdays with Authors by James T. Fields

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