proser

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

From The Altar Fire by Arthur Christopher Benson

"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 Charles James Lever

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

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 Thomas Moore

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 C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford

If the poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction.

From Time Magazine Archive

His style seemed to me the poetical foil of all the prosers of all time.

From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee

He read his Swinburne again, and unearthed from the bottom of a trunk some books that dealt with the decadent's joys,—poets of the Flesh, and prosers of the Devil, in his many weary forms.

From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren

But Saddletree, like other prosers, was blessed with a happy obtuseness of perception concerning the unfavourable impression which he sometimes made on his auditors.

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Sir Walter Scott

He would be the awfullest of prosers if he had the gift of the gab.’

From That Stick by Charlotte Mary Yonge