He Prosed away about that until I had to yawn, but they seemed to like it.
"Pixie O'Shaughnessy"
Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
Moreover, instead of fewer biographies being written, more and more people seem to be commemorated in stodgy volumes; and further, the selection could not be made by authority, because the kind of lives that are wanted are not the lives of dull important people, but the lives of interesting and unimportant people who have given their vividness and originality to life itself, to talk and letters and complex relationships; we do not want the lives of people who have Prosed on platforms and bawled at the openings of bazaars.
"The Silent Isle"
Arthur Christopher Benson
Even Sallie began to look speechful, and I believe she would have got up and spoken a few words on the subject of women, and how they need men to look after them, but she said something to Mr. Haley, who shook his head and then got up and Prosed beautifully to us for ten minutes, and would have gone on longer, if he hadn't seen Henrietta begin to look mutinous.
"The Tinder-Box"
Maria Thompson Daviess