He has brought into the country with him all the practical maxims of town, and the bustling habits of business; and is one of those sensible, useful, Prosing, troublesome, intolerable old gentlemen, that go about wearying and worrying society with excellent plans for public utility.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
"I ought to have been a preacher, I think, I am always Prosing.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
The bore is not a ruminating animal,-carnivorous, not sagacious- Prosing-long-winded-tenacious of life, though not vivacious.
"Tales & Novels, Vol. IX [Contents: Harrington; Thoughts on Bores; Ormond]"
Maria Edgeworth