proser

Example Sentences

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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

I used to think him rather a proser; how I blessed his prosing now!

From The Altar Fire by Benson, Arthur Christopher

I am informed that, to-day, in Germany, the only two modern English dramatists who are listened to are Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw—the poet and the proser.

From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell

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

Porriquet, unfortunately, was now an irritating old proser.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir