His prosiness felt to him as if he had spat on consecrated earth. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
Since I could read none of them, I was spared their deadly prosiness. From Wordnik.com. [Banquets of the Black Widowers]
Boy, 'and' Peter Bell, 'and great masses of hopeless prosiness in his long blank-verse narratives. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
I doubt if these stately authors, wrapped in the cerements of their prosiness, may reasonably reproach a forgetful world. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
I am an old man now, and you must forgive an old man's prosiness; but a little sadness comes into my thoughts when I muse on the past. From Wordnik.com. [Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence] Reference
His facts and speculations will thus interest a large and valuable class of readers, while to some few of another class a certain suspicion of prosiness will be distasteful. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
But there is no languor, no feebleness, no sleepy prosiness, to indicate where vivacity flagged, and where an episode or paragraph was finished after the glow had yielded to exhaustion. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
In his walk he strutted; and, in this respect, he bore a faint resemblance to the pigeon, as well as in a certain prosiness of speech, which might, in its monotony, be likened to the cooing of that bird. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
The trouble is that prosiness may develop into pessimism. From Wordnik.com. [Mushrooms on the Moor] Reference
Sheldon did not exaggerate the prosiness of that intolerable man. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of Prey] Reference
West objected to the length and prosiness of Agrippina's speeches. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
How am I to disintegrate the mass of prosiness which I have heard this day?. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of Prey] Reference
And when prosiness curdles into pessimism the case of the patient is very grave. From Wordnik.com. [Mushrooms on the Moor] Reference
The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing from the bravery of the movement. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
As a consequence, the truisms flooded him and he lost his guard against our native prosiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
For all its sins of flatness and prosiness the Classical School has always taught discipline. From Wordnik.com. [Romance Two Lectures] Reference
But of all this prosiness, of all this littleness, she evades nothing, and nothing is slurred over. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader] Reference
Mrs. Million found Vivian's conversation no disagreeable relief to the pompous prosiness of his predecessor. From Wordnik.com. [Vivian Grey] Reference
The real significance of that prayer lies in the fact that the supreme tendency of middle life is towards prosiness. From Wordnik.com. [Mushrooms on the Moor] Reference
In his more technical passages the clearness and simplicity is absent, the prosiness and lack of imagination remain, nakedly hideous. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
SIR JOSEPH JEKYLL wrote the following impromptu, on observing a certain sergeant, well known for his prosiness, bustling into the Court of. From Wordnik.com. [The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings] Reference
He always wanted to meet his fellow, and hence that abundance of speech, which, however poetic the things he said, not a few called prosiness. From Wordnik.com. [Donal Grant, by George MacDonald] Reference
Miltonic in its grandeur and proportions, and Miltonic in its prosiness and mongrel classicism also, yet its power and effectiveness are unmistakable. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Sunshine] Reference
However, where all is dark to me the astute Sheldon may see daylight, so I'll observe the letter of my bond, and check off the residuum of the ancient mariner's prosiness. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of Prey] Reference
Not only had the Mayor exerted himself to the utmost for that object, but the hand-bill itself promised a rare relief from the prosiness of abstract enlightenment and elevated knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
Half-a-dozen years passed away, and Mr. and Mrs. Lodge’s married experience sank into prosiness, and worse. From Wordnik.com. [Wessex Tales] Reference
A village clock, roving smells, pious smells; rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety, and in a prosiness which serves as. From Wordnik.com. [Swann's Way] Reference
Prussia's kings and the masterpieces that commemorate them were extolled with a prosiness that sounded like an afterclap of William's Reichstag and monument orations. ". From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
Prussia's kings and the masterpieces that commemorate them were extolled with a prosiness that sounded like an afterclap of William's Reichstag and monument orations.”. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany]
"The enthusiastically complimentary person, who forgets you in her own flowery prosiness: as -- 'I have no need to say to. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete] Reference
"What was now wanted was a book entirely unlike his; a book that would influence the vaster public, whom his homely prosiness would never reach. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral] Reference
But there are worse things than prosiness. From Wordnik.com. [Mushrooms on the Moor] Reference
Dear girl, forgive my prosiness; marry my boy. From Wordnik.com. [A Room with a View] Reference
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