proser

Example Sentences

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Your late proposal from him made me hint this to * *, who is a much better proser and scholar than I am, and a very superior man indeed.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

"What a bore that must be he is a most insufferable proser."

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

I sympathize with you for the dole which you are dreeing under the inflictions of your honest proser.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

The purger, the proser, the bard—   All quacks in a different style; Doctor Southey writes books by the yard.

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

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