You will think me an old Proser if I continue talking much longer; and, at all events, your servant and horses are impatient to be off, so once again, Luis, farewell."
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
His old schoolmaster called him "Ne'er-do-weel Peter;" but the dominie was a mere Proser; he knew the moods and tenses of a Greek or Latin sentence, but he was incapable of appreciating its soul.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
I am informed that, to-day, in Germany, the only two modern English dramatists who are listened to are Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw-the poet and the Proser.
"Oscar Wilde"
Leonard Cresswell Ingleby