proser

Example Sentences

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The consequence was, I soon got the name of an intolerable proser, and should in a little while have been completely excommunicated had I not changed my plan of operations.

From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington

He is as little of a proser as possible, but he blurts out the finest wit and sense in the world.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

He is as little of a proser as possible; but he blurts out the finest wit and sense in the world.

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William

A painter and composer Of taste and spirit when he wooed his bride;— What wonder if the man became a proser When she was snugly settled by his side?

From Love's Comedy by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)

Crites, who is not more long-winded than may be permitted to a polite proser, at least on the Thames of a summer evening, somewhat condensed, reasoneth thus.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various