proser

Example Sentences

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Thus Drayton writes of his contemporary Nashe: “And surely Nashe, though he a proser were, A branch of laurel yet deserves to bear”; that is, the ornament not of a ‘proser’, but of a poet.

From English Past and Present by Palmer, Abram Smythe

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 Zeitlin, Jacob

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

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