"Do you expect me to say that I found you 'prosy'?". From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
He is the man who does the heavy business, such as prosy fathers, virtuous servants, curates, landlords, and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people] Reference
The voice lengthened into prim and prosy solemnity. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Slopes] Reference
I make no apologies for this extremely prosy paragraph. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
And scorn us prosy greybeards -- shall ELIN's glory fade?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 28, 1891] Reference
SARK a little prosy and opinionated; otherwise a good fellow. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 28, 1891] Reference
Perhaps it never happens in this prosy old twentieth century. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
Color the map as you will, it is but a prosy picture after all. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference
The sermon is long and prosy, and we rejoice that it is the last. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
Hammond girl, who was left to waste her sweetness upon prosy old Van. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
"Besides being insufferably prosy," interpolated plain-spoken Nettie. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Readings for the Home Circle] Reference
Then it was prose that was considered dull -- hence we have the word prosy. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
Be this his excuse for seeming prosy and dull; possibly for mistakes and crudities. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society] Reference
In truth, a prosy cleric of five-and-forty wants encouragement to make him eloquent. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
I have been prosy and practical enough and now have used my allotted time and space. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] Reference
Even such apparently prosy dicta as ἀρχὴ δἑ τοι ᾕμισμ παντός. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
We heard a prosy sermon from the old gentleman who has officiated there for some years. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
I knew Langtry, and you were well rid of him — for a dowdier, more prosy bore of a man. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
He lacked brilliancy in manner and conversation; he was dull; he was, perhaps, even prosy. From Wordnik.com. [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference
Well, you are thinking, some of you, that this is a prosy chapter, but you must not skip it. From Wordnik.com. [Emilie the Peacemaker] Reference
As an essayist, Chesterton is never dull: the philosophy contained in his essays is not prosy. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
Occasionally they are dull and prosy, very often they are obscure, quite often they are wearisome. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
So he tried to keep awake and hide his yawns while listening to a prosy monologue on insects until the. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
Certainly it was a refreshing departure from the prosy or clumsy-witted efforts common to that period. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
There is nothing heavy about it -- nothing prosy or difficult to comprehend in the matter it contains. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
It would seem, Aunt Jennie, dear, as if the world is not at all the prosy thing some people take it to be. From Wordnik.com. [Sweetapple Cove] Reference
In his later life he wrote a great quantity of Puritan religious verse, largely prosy in spite of his fluency. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
As a speaker he is decidedly prosy, with a hesitating utterance, a monotonous voice, and an uninteresting manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861] Reference
The bulk of his work consists of long moralizing poems, prosy, prolix, often trivial, and to-day largely unreadable. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
As for literature, it made no difference how dull or prosy were the books, young people had to read them or none at all. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference
You could write to-day, but if you did, you know you could support no patience for prosy facts, statistics and photographs. From Wordnik.com. [If You Don't Write Fiction] Reference
I was thinking of many things the while, and allowing myself to become absorbed in an earnest rehearsal of my own prosy life. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
All this is as true as when prosy old Nestor instructed his son, who no doubt knew it all already, at Patroklos 'funeral games. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
With such a table of contents in front of this little foreword, I am quite sure that few will pause to consider my prosy effort. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
It was printed on a sheet ten by eighteen inches in size, and gave the greater portion of its space to two or three prosy essays. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 4, January, 1885] Reference
It is usually assumed that a theological argument is a dull and prosy affair that has as its perpetrators either Professors of Theology or. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
The repast concluded, Acmé rose; and observing a countryman with his arm bound up, enquired if he had met with an accident; and patiently listened to the prosy narrative of age. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
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