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"It has been a prosy day for us," she said thoughtfully, "but to some people it has been a wonderful day.

"And if your Honor," concluded this excellent but somewhat prosy old gentleman, "shall see fit to persist in bringing these mercenary sworders and musketeers into our quiet streets, not on our heads be the responsibility.

(the savage) began to hit himself severe thumps in the chest, and to exhibit other indications of being desperately in love, which being rather a prosy proceeding, was very likely the cause of the maiden's falling asleep; whether it was or no, asleep she did fall, sound as a church, on a sloping bank, and the savage perceiving it, leant his left ear on his left hand, and nodded sideways, to intimate to all whom it might concern that she WAS asleep, and no shamming.

In his later life he wrote a great quantity of Puritan religious verse, largely prosy in spite of his fluency.

I believe this to be the case almost throughout the country, but each has a special attraction, and none can be richer than the one I am speaking of and going to introduce you to very particularly, for on this subject I must be prosy; so those that don't care for England in detail may skip the chapter.

It was not her fault they were so prosy, so completely uninteresting -- from "My darling wife" at the beginning, to "Your loving husband" at the end.

It would be very dull, prosy work, he thought, writing there forever to the loud ticking of a timepiece.

"Well, well, we all get a bit prosy sometimes," said Lord John.

"There, I told you my doings would not interest you, and they don't; they sound flat and prosy after your brilliant adventures.

It has been a distinct honor to meet Lahoz at a lunch hosted by journalist Prosy dela Cruz of Asian Journal in Malate, at the Purple Yam Manila two years ago.

Prosy Badiola Torrechante once worked as a community relations officer for a food production company.

"Many of her verses are 'prosy,' others are obscure and almost unintelligible on account of loose construction and poor grammar.

By the early 1950s, Porter's work had so thoroughly permeated the American university that, as McCarthy's narrator in Groves of Academe playfully put it, the advocates of modern poetry made it their mission to displace those writers who were identified by their "flaccid, prosy devotions to K.

Within the town of Buffalo Are prosy men with leaden eyes.

Like a concerned parent, he seems to trust himself with flippancy, with humor, and with "long and prosy" sentences because he usually handles them with such dexterity.