proser

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 William Hazlitt

Let a good, thorough-paced proser get hold of one of these stories, and he carefully desiccates them of whatever fancy may be left, till he has reduced them to the proper dryness of fact.

From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell

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 Alexander Leighton

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

From the prosers that one hears in pulpits, legislatures, lecture-rooms, at morning calls and well-appointed dinner-tables in Anglo-America, let no man infer against our poetic endowment.

From Essays Æsthetical by George H. (George Henry) Calvert

Love to all my friends, poets, prosers, and the dear ——, who are that most excellent thing, readers.

From Yesterdays with Authors by James T. Fields

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

From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee

Have I not read lives of all the illustrious prosers you gave me to look through?

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever