prose

Still, educational prose, popular keywords, and trending topics explain just a bit of this phenomenon.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026

Upon that ocean Cortés somehow glimpses Odysseus’ ship—a fusion of time frames that mirrors Mr. Power’s freewheeling, chronology-defying prose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Hardy’s prose brims with assurance and wry details that come from lived experiences and conversations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Ms. Han renders the attempts to control Yeong-hye and her subversive responses in prose of transcendent power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Thomas and Turner explain that the reader of classic prose “may conclude that a text is masterful, classic, and completely wrong.”

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

Never mind how the pedagogue proses,   You want not antiquity's stamp; A lip, that such fragrance discloses,   Oh! never should smell of the lamp.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti

Philip proses about the burden he takes up and the cares he endures.

From The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker

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

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

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

Two brothers, counsellor and pleader, went Through life on terms of mutual compliment; That thought the other Gracchus, this supposed His brother Mucius; so they praised and prosed.

From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by John Conington

Commend us to one picturesque, garrulous old fellow, like Froissart, or Philip de Comines, or Bishop Burnet, before all the philosophic prosers that ever prosed.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by James Hogg

He wanted a good walk; his head was stupid from his lectures; that old Jennings prosed so awfully upon Paley, it made him quite ill.

From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman

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

"Sir," said Dr. Johnson, to some prosing tormentor, "I would rather a man would knock me down, than to begin to talk to me of the Punic wars."

From Practical Education, Volume II by Maria Edgeworth

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

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

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

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