proser
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Porriquet, unfortunately, was now an irritating old proser.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
I used to think him rather a proser; how I blessed his prosing now!
From The Altar Fire by Arthur Christopher Benson
Crites, who is not more long-winded than may be permitted to a polite proser, at least on the Thames of a summer evening, somewhat condensed, reasoneth thus.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
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 James Russell Lowell
"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 Charles Lamb
If the poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction.
From Time Magazine Archive
His style seemed to me the poetical foil of all the prosers of all time.
From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee
Poets and prosers have alike compared her to a beautiful woman; and while one finds nothing but loveliness in her, another shudders at her fatal fascination.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various
From the prosers that one hears in pulpits, legislatures, lecture-rooms, at morning calls and well-appointed dinner-tables in Anglo-America, let no man infer against our poetic endowment.
From Essays Æsthetical by George H. (George Henry) Calvert
I’m sick of the prosers, that house up At drowsy St Stephen’s,—ain’t you?
From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Richard Doyle
