be prolix

While “The Beetle” can be prolix and some of its plot elements corny, it is nevertheless a genuine “creepy-crawly,” as one contemporary review dubbed it.

If George Eliot can be prolix in her moralising some times, and Lawrence over-insistent in his erotic sermonising, why can't these novels of drastic elixirs and lecherous tonics occasionally over-prescribe their poisons?

I have no news to regale you with, for there is none abroad, but I live in the expectation of shortly hearing from you, and being informed of your plans and projects; fear not to be prolix, for the slightest particular cannot fail of being interesting to one who loves you far better than parent or relation, or even than the God whom bigots would teach him to adore, and who subscribes himself, Yours unalterably, George Borrow.

You see me inclined towards a sphere denied to me—that of sounding your praises, I mean; which since your modesty has taken from me, it remains of necessity that I should be brief: yes indeed, I am too diffuse, seeing that the very subject is cut off from me in which alone I was, and even without irksomeness, able to be prolix.

I have tried not to be prolix, keeping in mind while preparing this record of events, "all of which I saw, and part of which I was," that there is a limit to the patience of readers.