prose

Mr. Damasio’s prose is informal—self-consciously chatty and unaffected, addressed to his “dear reader” and peppered by plenty of exclamation marks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Basing herself in New York in 1960, she quickly became known for her stylish prose, sharp wit, and striking appearance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

There are several popular renditions of “The Odyssey” written in prose, such as E. V. Rieu’s 1946 translation, which according to Penguin focuses on the clarity of the storytelling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026

Such prose, however, bore the unmistakable whiff of hurt feelings.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

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

In that way the important things of the story may be made to come with the stroke and flash of present reality, instead of being prosed away by the historian and his good grammar.

From Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by W. P. Ker

Poets have sung and prosaists have prosed of the virtues of individual dogs, but nobody has had the hardihood to eulogize the species.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by S. O. (Silas Orrin) Howes

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

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

Only one, an old friend of his father's, refused to be shaken off and sat prosing away quite oblivious of his listener's preoccupation till the words "your wife" arrested Cyril's wandering attention.

From Who? by Elizabeth Kent

By this time, Mr. Stukeley had joined the party, and was going his rounds, chatting, laughing, quizzing, and prosing, according to the different characters of the people whom he talked with.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

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

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

Goodness knows what ineffable dinners, What drinks deleterious you've borne, What prosing from long-winded sinners You've endured with a patience unworn!

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various