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All this was presented in calm, scientific prose and aided by dense mathematical equations.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

“A Past Without Pictures” is a bleak but intermittently lyrical work with lean prose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Few critics praised Archer's prose style, his sense of humour, or the emotional depth of his characters.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 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

There were application forms, twenty pages long, and thick, densely printed admission handbooks from Edinburgh and London whose methodical, exacting prose seemed to be a foretaste of a new kind of academic rigor.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

From Time Magazine Archive

On how many evenings had the sadness of life been dissipated in listening to these proses chanted in the churches!

From En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

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

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

From The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker

He adopted an entirely new style of versification and music, derived from popular songs; and he and his successors in 34the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries wrote various proses for the Christmas festival.

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

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

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

He still prosed on, wrapped up in his own eloquence.

From Rainbow Valley by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

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

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

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

And, mercy on us, what sermons they preached in those cold old churches, prosing away sometimes for two hours at a time!

From The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

An intelligent and refined daughter may be unfortunate in a coarse, ignorant mother, or a prosing, tiresome, purse-proud father.

From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Eliza Leslie

But though a minstrel’s poem it is far from rude, and it is quite free from the ordinary faults of rambling and prosing, such as Chaucer ridiculed in his Geste of Sir Thopas.

From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by W. P. (William Paton) Ker