proser

Example Sentences

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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

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 Irving, Washington

Porriquet, unfortunately, was now an irritating old proser.

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

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

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William

I am informed that, to-day, in Germany, the only two modern English dramatists who are listened to are Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw—the poet and the proser.

From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell