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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

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

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

A natural writer, he quickly grasped the difference between e-mail chat and the more formal and grammatical prose the school wanted, and labored over his essay.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

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 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

Here and there a preacher thunders, here and there a philosopher proses against the money struggle.

From Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane

Free interchange of poetries and proses, of heroic sentiments and opinions, between the Unique of Sages and the Paragon of Crown-Princes; how charming to both!

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 by Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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

And he had prosed by the hour to this woman about his own griefs and love-troubles!

From Under False Pretences A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

And when he had versed his verse and had prosed his prose, he again groaned and complained and remembered he had been and how he had been parted from his brother.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

For exactly twenty-one minutes she prosed on uninterruptedly, like a stream flowing over its bed; never stopped to take breath once.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford

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

As for those times when he goes on prosing in rhyme from force of habit, I think it is more respectful as well as more pleasurable to allow him to walk alone.

From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers

On this head we suffer much good-natured prosing in ourselves and others. 

From About London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

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

From Laid up in Lavender by Stanley J. Weyman

Her long-winded prosing was now cut short and ridiculed, and her Mops dare scarcely put his nose outside the good lady's petticoats, under the shelter of which he lay snoring from morning till night.

From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. III (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various