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But a mill-village is one vast expanse of mediocrity and prosaicness, and it would take a bigger nature than Peter's to recognize the beautiful in such a life.

From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Ford, Paul Leicester

Thoughts have some characteristics of fancy, of freedom, even of unreality, which are wanting to the prosaicness of heavy material things.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred

All her meanness and prosaicness was forgotten, all her imperfections and shortcomings; it was home, the one tangible thing in the glittering emptiness of the spheres.

From Gulliver of Mars by Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden

But, alas! for the prosaicness of this workaday world, they had to assume the attitudes of lawyer and client; and discourse of crime instead of love.

From The Silent House by Hume, Fergus

Its pretention to historic accuracy begot prosaicness in its approach to the style of the chronicles.

From Four Arthurian Romances by Comfort, William Wistar