proser

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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

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 Rossetti, William Michael

Porriquet, unfortunately, was now an irritating old proser.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

His old schoolmaster called him "Ne'er-do-weel Peter;" but the dominie was a mere proser; he knew the moods and tenses of a Greek or Latin sentence, but he was incapable of appreciating its soul.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander

"I am, sir," he once boasted to an analytical, unimaginative proser who had insisted upon explaining some quaint passage in Marvell or Wither, "I am, sir, a matter-of-lie man."

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles