prosily
- a word derived from prosy.
Example Sentences
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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
He was earnestly but prosily orating at the audience.
From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by Fanning, C. E. (Clara Elizabeth)
Then at least I was well enough awakened, but still those old Marlen bells rang on, not ringing for joy, but properly, prosily, steadily, merrily ringing 'for church.'
From Ancient Egypt by Rawlinson, George
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
