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Even the plainest of the old English poems, even Maldon, has to employ the poetical diction, the unprosaic terms and figures of the Teutonic School.

From Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by Ker, W. P.

It has cast an enduring, poetic charm even about the horse-car in my mind, and I naturally look for many unprosaic aspects of humanity there.

From Suburban Sketches by Howells, William Dean

A dozen years later came Captain John Smith, who feared neither man nor devil, and who saw nothing unprosaic about the place.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop

Why, Major," said Effi, "you don't mean to talk your neck into—excuse me!—such an unprosaic predicament, do you?

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various