proser

Example Sentences

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Porriquet, unfortunately, was now an irritating old proser.

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

"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 Lever, Charles James

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, 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

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 Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)