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It contains drawings and proses which have nothing but a formal, not an illustrative or explanatory, relation to each other.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brown cicala drily proses, Creaking the hot air to sleep, Bounteous orange flowers and roses, Yield the wealth of love they keep, To the sun's imperious ardour in a dream of fragrance deep.
From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus
Free interchange of poetries and proses, of heroic sentiments and opinions, between the Unique of Sages and the Paragon of Crown-Princes; how charming to both!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 by Carlyle, Thomas
The teacher before his class is the sacred bard at the feast; he is an exhaustless spring of joy, a tireless playfellow, a preacher who never proses, a schoolmaster who never scolds.
From Literature in the Elementary School by MacClintock, Porter Lander
But there is a man in my office, a Mr. Hedges, who proses it away from morning to night, and never gets beyond corporal and material verities.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
