prose

“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

In plain and punchy prose, he at times rebuked his fellow justices for not showing sufficient deference to the president.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

While the afternoons blazed, Tim sailed Melville’s waves of prose, alert to the rumble of an epic whale beneath their surface.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

But his impenetrable prose -- used to avoid committing to any particular course -- and his confidence in unfettered markets and institutions to correct themselves frustrated critics, who believed the US economy needed stronger guardrails.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

Donald Byrne, the United States Open champion, said he was so on edge that he spent the entire day before the match trying not to think of chess, reading the romantic prose of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

From Time Magazine Archive

By day he teaches his own particular subject; by night he looks over proses or corrects algebra papers.

From The Lighter Side of School Life by Ian Hay

Never mind how the pedagogue proses,   You want not antiquity's stamp, The lip that's so scented by roses,   Oh! never must smell of the lamp.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton

He started by doing one prose and one "con" a week, instead of two proses and two "cons" like the rest of the form.

From The Loom of Youth by Alec Waugh

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

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

He prosed along, however, until the House adjourned for dinner, and Disraeli's opportunity was for the meantime lost.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by David Christie Murray

No one talked but Ruskin, and he prosed, and his prose of speech was not his prose of pen.

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

Now that I have prosed on to you of different things, I will spare you any more prosing.—Farewell, and be happy, and think sometimes, when in a good humour, of your ever-loving brother, "Rodolph."

From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by John Knowles

He prosed to me about a "home"; as if I could now endure a Darby and Joan existence!

From The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day by Harriet Stark

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

Here Esau, who had his deck shoes on, seeing what sort of a mood John was in, stole away quietly towards the cabin, and left him prosing on to the German Ocean.

From Three in Norway by Two of Them by Walter J. Clutterbuck

He may be taught a trade, and that is what most of the versing and prosing is, I suppose.

From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells

This prosing satirist, strange to say, in some pastoral poetry, has opened the right vein.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

I wonder he didn’t stop drowned if he was surrounded by people who kept on prosing like you are.”

From Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop by Harold Piffard