proser

Example Sentences

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His old schoolmaster called him "Ne'er-do-weel Peter;" but the dominie was a mere proser; he knew the moods and tenses of a Greek or Latin sentence, but he was incapable of appreciating its soul.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander

Thus Drayton writes of his contemporary Nashe: “And surely Nashe, though he a proser were, A branch of laurel yet deserves to bear”; that is, the ornament not of a ‘proser’, but of a poet.

From English Past and Present by Palmer, Abram Smythe

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)

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)