proser

• “Clara herself a lover? and if that old proser, meaning the”

  Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1

• “I beheld a damsel, white as a full moon when it mooneth on its fourteenth night, with joined eyebrows twain and languorous lids of eyne, breasts like pomegranates twin and dainty, lips like double carnelian, a mouth as it were the seal-of Solomon, and teeth ranged in a line that played with the reason of proser and rhymer, even as saith the poet,”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “For none shall own me but he, because his cheek is smooth and the water of his mouth sweet as Salsabil; 273 his spittle is a cure for the sick and his charms daze and dazzle poet and proser, even as saith one of him,”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Nobody can understand your "leaks" but 8th year English Lit majors and most everybody's stopped reading them already -- since they're nothing more than mastubatory prose that tickles the poseur proser, more than it relays information.”

  Weezy's Shady Corrupt Housing Games

• “I love proser, I took a cash loan about a year ago, paid it off recently, and about to get my car loan from there … just my 2 cents. reply”

  Prosper Registers With SEC to Create a $500 Million Secondary Market in Peer-to-Peer Loans

• “Herodotus is telling of wonders that his friends, and we too, want to hear, that in the tragedies we hear the voice of Sophocles dictating, choked with emotion and tears; that even Roman historians wrote because they had something to tell, and Caesar, dull proser that he is, composed the _Commentaries_ not to provide us with style or grammatical curiosities, but as a record of extraordinary events.”

  Cambridge Essays on Education

• “Hallam is a dull proser -- no discovery or illustration, no profound thought, no vivid description, not even a harmonious period.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875

• “But a great revolution there has been, from nobody's reading anything, to every body's reading all things; and perhaps it began with that good old proser Richardson, the father of Pamela, Clarissa, and”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829

• “The boys, to whom their grandfather -- so far as they regarded him at all -- had mainly presented himself as a benevolent old proser, were surprised to find that they sincerely regretted him; and the events of the next few weeks threw up his merits (now that the time was past for rewarding them) into a sharp light which memory overarched with a halo.”

  Lady Good-for-Nothing

• “I used to think him rather a proser; how I blessed his prosing now!”

  The Altar Fire

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