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- adjective
comparative form ofprosy : moreprosy
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Examples
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The perpetual vines, the bright-faced flat-roofed houses, covered with tiles, the softness and sweetness of the light and air, recalled the prosier portions of the
A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879
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It was her first experience in shadows cast before, and it came to her with a little shock that no two are ever one in the prosier sense of the theory.
The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899
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The Stock Exchange was strongly represented, Jerusalem was strongly represented, the bores of the prosier London clubs were strongly represented.
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Do leave them to your prosier friends, -- such fellows ought to die
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 02: Additional Poems (1837-1848) Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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The Stock Exchange was strongly represented, Jerusalem was strongly represented, the bores of the prosier London clubs were strongly represented.
The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841
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"in liquid lines mellifluously bland," and prosier than all the rest.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various
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Creuxius has a prosier explanation: "_Ad confluentem promontorium assurgit quod saltum nautæ vulgo vocant ab cane hujus nominis qui se alias ex eo loco praecipitum dedit.
The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 John Lesp��rance 1864
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