proser
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I used to think him rather a proser; how I blessed his prosing now!
From The Altar Fire by Arthur Christopher Benson
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
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 William Michael Rossetti
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 Abram Smythe Palmer
If the poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would be the awfullest of prosers if he had the gift of the gab.’
From That Stick by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
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 James Fenimore Cooper
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
