proser

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

From The Altar Fire by Benson, Arthur Christopher

"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 Lever, Charles James

The consequence was, I soon got the name of an intolerable proser, and should in a little while have been completely excommunicated had I not changed my plan of operations.

From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington

Here offers you still the full use of his breath, Your devoted and long-winded proser till death.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

He is as little of a proser as possible, but he blurts out the finest wit and sense in the world.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

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

From Time Magazine Archive

His sermons were pithy and short; and he always spoke of your half-hour preachers, as illiterate prosers, who did not understand how to condense their thoughts.

From Satanstoe by Cooper, James Fenimore

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 Scott, Walter, Sir

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

Commend us to one picturesque, garrulous old fellow, like Froissart, or Philip de Comines, or Bishop Burnet, before all the philosophic prosers that ever prosed.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James