prosiest

The absence of the worker, through illness or death is sufficient to touch the prosiest workshop and tools with the hues of pathos, and it was with a swelling bosom that Lady Constantine passed through this arena of his youthful activities to the little chamber where he lay.

Two on a Tower 2006

The war has driven that word from our vocabulary, and melodrama has become the prosiest realism.

Greenmantle 2005

For then, an inclined plane of unfortunate infants would be handed over to the prosiest and worst of all the teachers with good intentions, whom nobody older would endure.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

The sudden thought that he didn't want to see her again was so sharp that she dropped the glass in her hand and spent the next few minutes picking up the splinters while Mijnheer Beek, in the prosiest of Dutch, told her off for being careless.

Not Once But Twice Neels, Betty 1981

The new Proprietor looked on him and saw a man triumphing where the multitude of essaying disciples fail: not in lofty ideals, not in emotional experiences, not in grand works undertaken; but in the prosiest, hardest spot -- albeit the touchstone of many a man's consecration -- the _money question_.

The First Soprano Mary Hitchcock

He is, in fact, one of the prosiest public men in Canada.

The Masques of Ottawa Domino

San Sebastian, just as if nothing had ever happened; neither the Barber and Carmen, nor Nelson and Byron; the past but a phantom; the present the prosiest of prose-poems.

"Marse Henry" : an autobiography, 1921

Ellis or Michael Daragh, tea and dancing with Rodney Harrison, or dinner and a play with him, or a little session of snug coziness with Mrs. Hetty Hills, giving the exile news of the Vermont village, -- nothing was dull or dutiful; the prosiest matters of every day were lined with rose.

Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918

Of three dull nicknames, stuck like burrs on the mantles of Dorking's prophets, the dullest and prosiest has stuck to the richest.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

The war has driven that word from our vocabulary, and melodrama has become the prosiest realism.

Greenmantle John Buchan 1907