prose

Few critics praised Archer's prose style, his sense of humour, or the emotional depth of his characters.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

With polished prose and impeccable research, historian Philbrick unravels the Golden State’s ties to profit, enslavement and white supremacy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Writing in newspaper Canard Enchaine, Fabrice Colin also criticised the formulaic sentence structure and said he "vainly looked for a unique voice" in the prose.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

But Mr. Sebag Montefiore’s muscular prose, blending highbrow erudition with blunt and occasionally vulgar humor, is indelible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

It may not be a coincidence that Greene, like many scientists since Galileo, is a lucid expositor of difficult ideas, because the ideal of classic prose is congenial to the worldview of the scientist.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

It contains drawings and proses which have nothing but a formal, not an illustrative or explanatory, relation to each other.

From Time Magazine Archive

The “Laetabundus” is in rhymed stanzas; in this it differs from most early proses.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

The teacher before his class is the sacred bard at the feast; he is an exhaustless spring of joy, a tireless playfellow, a preacher who never proses, a schoolmaster who never scolds.

From Literature in the Elementary School by Porter Lander MacClintock

Brown cicala drily proses,       Creaking the hot air to sleep,     Bounteous orange flowers and roses,       Yield the wealth of love they keep,   To the sun's imperious ardour in a dream of fragrance deep.

From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

Macallester next proses endlessly on the alleged Jesuit connection with Damien’s attack on Lous XV., and insists that the Jesuits, nobody knows why, meant to assassinate Prince Charles. 

From Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles by Andrew Lang

A similar bill prosed in the Senate would change visitation restrictions specifically for nursing homes, although the measure has not yet been placed on the Legislature’s agenda.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2021

Commend us to one picturesque, garrulous old fellow, like Froissart, or Philip de Comines, or Bishop Burnet, before all the philosophic prosers that ever prosed.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by James Hogg

"I found a little grey hair this morning," Miss Searle incoherently prosed.

From A Passionate Pilgrim by Henry James

He still prosed on, wrapped up in his own eloquence.

From Rainbow Valley by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

He prosed away about that until I had to yawn, but they seemed to like it.

From Pixie O'Shaughnessy by William H. C. Groome

Most of the time all the spectator sees is Spencer Tracy sitting in a rowboat and mumbling to himself, and all he hears is Hemingway's own narrative prosing along the sound track.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lady Linacre, his nearest neighbour, was prosing on to Mrs. Burton Smith, his next nearest.

From Laid up in Lavender by Stanley J. Weyman

A dull, sleepy, prosing minister is not the man for the west.

From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark

And, mercy on us, what sermons they preached in those cold old churches, prosing away sometimes for two hours at a time!

From The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

Cease, for I can no longer endure thy interminable prosing; a more talkative varlet never intruded on the patience of an indulgent master.

From Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. by Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío