prolix

• 10). Still at his post was sunk-eyed W. (for William) R. (for Rufus) Le ffaçasé (pronounced L'Fass-uh-say), prolix, wide-read editor of the Los Angeles Intelligencer_. —  Greener Than You Think
• The style of these documents is felt to be prolix, and their arrangement perplexing. —  The History of Tasmania , Volume II
• Always enormously prolix, and adoring the details which swell the flimsy issues of cheap periodical narratives, our witness describes at great length the city and its Masonic temple, with the temple which is within the temple and is consecrated to the good God. —  Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
• Not to be too prolix, at the time Captain Scraggs made the disheartening discovery that he had to have a skipper for the Maggie_, Mr. Gibney found himself reduced to the alternative of longshore work or a fo'castle berth in a windjammer bound for blue water With alacrity, therefore, Mr. Gibney had accepted Scraggs's offer of seventy-five dollars a month--"and found"--to skipper the Maggie on her coastwise run. —  Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates
• Even if the talker is prosy and prolix, the well-bred person will appear interested, and at appropriate intervals make such remarks as shall show that he has heard and understood all that has been said. —  Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society

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