“The scribe wrote his prose on good-quality laid paper, yellowish and supple, with a carefully sharpened quill.”

“The round was brought to a close by some rapid exchanges, after which the proser went down.”

“After some slight exchanges they began a hammer-and-tongs game, in which proser scored heavily.”

“Prosaist won't do, and neither will prosist, proser, the straightforward prose-writer.”

“Prosaist won't do, and neither will prosist, proser, the straightforward prose-writer.”

“The lyrics are replete with repetition, prosaism, and smugness.”

“That Cameron sugars the pill of his strange story with every tried and tested Hollywood prosaism under the sun is perhaps no surprise.”

“It was not as if I resorted to symbolism in order to resist the prosaism of an 'alarming' reality.”

“While many of his contemporaries took poetry toward prosiness, he cultivated what turned out to be a dazzling talent for rhyme.”

“Durling's 1976 scholarly prose translation and it shows, in both the clarity and the prosiness of his versions.”

“The prosaicness of his writing style made it difficult to engage with the story.”

“Perhaps the only solution to the pervasive prosaisms is to offer an utterly idiosyncratic view of the city, throwing objectivity and fairness to the winds.”

“These subjects, with some changes in theme, seem to me to be holding with the current generation of Southern writers, both prosers and poets.”

“The prize item was Debussy's Proses Lyriques, four songs set to the composer's own poetry and for some reason not often sung in recital.”