proser

Example Sentences

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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

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

Let a good, thorough-paced proser get hold of one of these stories, and he carefully desiccates them of whatever fancy may be left, till he has reduced them to the proper dryness of fact.

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell

Porriquet, unfortunately, was now an irritating old proser.

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

Truth was, my outward eyes were closed,   Although I did not know it; Deep into dream-land I had dozed, And thus was happily transposed   From proser into poet.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell