prose

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From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

“The prose is incredible and it absolutely was a cut above. Not to use a cannibalistic meat pun.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

It’s very sentimental — which the novel, with its matter-of-fact, if sensually evocative prose, and it’s child’s eye view, is not.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

The prose was heavy on exclamation points, light on specifics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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

But there is a man in my office, a Mr. Hedges, who proses it away from morning to night, and never gets beyond corporal and material verities.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

There is a School-board Lady, but, alas, she is next the Warden of St. Jude's, not next the enthusiastic Clergyman, who proses about a Club for Milliners.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 23, 1892 by Various

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

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

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

But I think I have prosed enough for one sitting, and it is growing late—one o’clock, as I am a living sinner!—and you must be growing tired.

From The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa by Alec Ball

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

Aunt Griselda received Sir Hugh graciously, and prosed gently to him of his father’s death; but Hugh turned the conversation skillfully to herself and Fay.

From Wee Wifie by Rosa Nouchette Carey

The Dean prosed on about the effects of the Ne Temere decree.

From The Red Hand of Ulster by George A. Birmingham

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

By this time, Mr. Stukeley had joined the party, and was going his rounds, chatting, laughing, quizzing, and prosing, according to the different characters of the people whom he talked with.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

Only one, an old friend of his father's, refused to be shaken off and sat prosing away quite oblivious of his listener's preoccupation till the words "your wife" arrested Cyril's wandering attention.

From Who? by Elizabeth Kent

Whether sleeping, prosing, or schooling, every one flew out upon the ice on the instant, as if the magazine or the boiler was on the point of explosion.

From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by Francis Leopold McClintock

And to the same authority we are indebted for a judge's gentle but sarcastic reproof of a prosing counsel.

From Law and Laughter by George A. (George Alexander) Morton