proser
Americannoun
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prosers
plural
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a person who talks or writes in prose.
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a person who talks or writes in a dull or tedious fashion.
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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
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
"I am, sir," he once boasted to an analytical, unimaginative proser who had insisted upon explaining some quaint passage in Marvell or Wither, "I am, sir, a matter-of-lie man."
From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb
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
If the poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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
From the prosers that one hears in pulpits, legislatures, lecture-rooms, at morning calls and well-appointed dinner-tables in Anglo-America, let no man infer against our poetic endowment.
From Essays Æsthetical by George H. (George Henry) Calvert
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