He declines to address his fellow-citizens in the commonplace terms usually recognised in more prosaic communities.

We do not deal in supernaturalisms in this prosaic century.

The prosaic name of this O.P. was "Claud.

Another day we shall go to buy prosaic things like tablecloths and carpet-sweepers; and then, as we know little about such things, we shall be glad to take with us some experienced advisers.

But I'm so prosaic I would like to have special attention paid to the comforts of the dining-room; and as to your own bedroom, Patty, I want you to see to it that it fulfills exactly your ideal of what a girl's room ought to be.

After that it was refreshing to find unromantic Mr. Phinuit lounging beside the captain's desk with crossed feet overhanging one corner of it and mind intent on the prosaic business of paring his fingernails.

At all events, however, certain of the more prosaic measures and stanzas lend themselves readily, and with much favour, to some of the more complex of logical necessities.

On such days of Church festivaland these alonethey might have been mistaken for peasants of some prosaic land, instead of the graceful, free-born Venetians that they were, as, with no hint of their natural rhythm of motion, they filed in cramped and orderly procession through the avenue that opened to them in the crowd to the door of the church, where they disappeared behind the great leather curtain.

The edifice wherein our Unitarian friends assemble every Sunday, is an old-fashioned, homely-looking, little buildinga tiny, Quakerised piece of architecture, simple to a degree, prosaic, diminutive, snug, dull.

We are very sensible of our incapacity to speak, or even think of this writer with prosaic phlegm; we cannot however avoid pronouncing, that, in our humble opinion, Mr. Hayley has now outdone all his former outdoings, and greatly repaid us for the absence we so dearly mourned.

It now becomes necessary to admit a prosaic fact hitherto concealed from the Reader.

It took the unexpectedly prosaic form of a violent sneeze, a vociferous outburst on a bench directly behind Mr. Grimm.

He remembered his own power with a jury; his vanity and his chivalry alike approved of this heroic method; he was bound by the prosaic factshe had his own theory of the case, which no mere evidence could gainsay.

In Milton we meet with many prosaic lines, either because the subject does not require raising or because they are necessary to connect the story, or serve as a relief to other passagesthere is not such a thing to be found in all Mr. Moore's writings.

Let oratory then be, as I have said above, mingled and regulated with a regard to rhythm; not prosaic, nor on the other hand sacrificed wholly to rhythm; composed chiefly of the paeon, (since that is the opinion of the wisest author on the subject,) with many of the other feet which he passes over intermingled with it.

Some of the new readings were undoubted improvements, some were unimportant, and others again were beyond all controversy inferior to the established text of the passages; and it seemed not a little difficult to reconcile the critical acumen and poetical insight of many of the corrections with the feebleness and prosaic triviality of others.

" And to this change I object: the meaning was obvious before; "lorded" stands clearly enough here for made lord of or over, etc.; and though the expression is unusual, it is less prosaic than the proposed word loaded.

If it seem prosaic, what care we?

Gerhart Hauptmann's Weavers and Florian Geyer may be considered the culminating points of this movement, in spite of their apparently entirely prosaic form.

She could imagine Mr. Russell answering the telephone in a prosaic voice like a double bass.

Your ears are not so very fastidiousmany people would not like words so prosaic and familiar in a sonnet as Islington and Hertfordshire."

Hence, though he might have turned the expression exactly by [Greek: hupaegageto] he contented himself with the prosaic [Greek: hedoulosato]]

"And right here in prosaic Saint X!" "Is it Saint X that is prosaic," said Adelaide, "or is it we, in failing to see the truth about familiar things?"

"And right here in prosaic Saint X!" "Is it Saint X that is prosaic," said Adelaide, "or is it we, in failing to see the truth about familiar things?"

Jane and I having decided that a purely shikar expedition into the more difficult parts of the country was not suited to our prosaic habits, remained to enjoy the effeminate pleasures of Srinagar till the weather should grow a few degrees warmer.