proser

Porriquet, unfortunately, was now an irritating old proser.

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

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 William Michael Rossetti

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

From The Altar Fire by Arthur Christopher Benson

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

Truth was, my outward eyes were closed,   Although I did not know it; Deep into dream-land I had dozed, And thus was happily transposed   From proser into poet.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

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

From Time Magazine Archive

After twenty years of pulpit prosers, there suddenly rose before her a sacred orator; an orator born; blest with that divine and thrilling eloquence that no heart can really resist.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various

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

From That Stick by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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

From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee

Poets and prosers have alike compared her to a beautiful woman; and while one finds nothing but loveliness in her, another shudders at her fatal fascination.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various