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Mother goes shopping as usual, answers the phone and the door, chats prosily with teacher when she comes to see if Richard, who has stayed home "sick" from school, is feeling any better.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then at least I was well enough wakened, but still those old Marlen bells rung on, not ringing for joy, but properly, prosily, steadily, merrily ringing “for church.”

From Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Kinglake, Alexander William

Where and is used instead of but, the incongruity savours of epigram: "He always talks truthfully and prosily."

From How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition by Abbott, Edwin Abbott

Mr. Carey, the clergyman, is the leading talker; and he talks well, not priggishly, nor prosily, but speaks the right words in the right way, and wins the attention of his companions.

From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)

It had something the effect of an explosion there in the quiet room where they had been talking so prosily.

From The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest by Footner, Hulbert