Prosy

It begins at a place called Prosy Common -- do you know it?

The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment David Grayson 1908

Prosy people were always coming in with requests or complaints, usually the latter.

Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

Prosy she undoubtedly was, but not commonplace, for invariable contentment and unbounded good-nature are more and more difficult to find in this censorious world.

The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town L. T. Meade 1884

Even so Rosalind, happy and undisturbed, dwelt on the days that were to come for the merpussy and poor Prosy, as she still had chosen to call him, for her husband and herself; and all the while _there_, so near her, was the end of it all, written in letters of death.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

It was restful to her, after the tension and trial of the night, to feel that he was happy with Sally and poor Prosy.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

Mr. Fenwick's mental torpor when her mother, the goozler and old Prosy having departed, got out her music to sing that very old song of hers to him that he had thought the other day seemed to bring back a sort of memory of something.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

Prosy couldn't be expected to accept her own view -- that the awful jolliness of being back at Krakatoa Villa would even compensate -- more than compensate -- for the pangs of parting with the Saint.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

I don't quite know what I should do without poor Prosy.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

It was quite true, as Sally had surmised, that poor Prosy had been entangled in the meshes of his Octopus.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

"I can't have poor Prosy put to sleep in a bed like this," said Sally, punching in the centre of one, and finding a hideous cross-bar.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878