...It is the mean, prosaic,commonplace character of all the surroundings and circumstances that givesa significance to Don Quixote’s vigil and the ceremony that follows... 
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I, Complete」
... You were aye a prosaic body, Davie...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...Heavily laden men would have found it difficult travelling by prosaic daylight; but now, with the added impossibility of picking a route ahead, we found ourselves in all sorts of trouble...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...Her thoughts sped back to her parting with Simeon, with its prosaic formality—-the feel of his puckered lips brushing her forehead...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
...Not that the prosaic dhobi cares two straws for thescenery—nor, I fear, does the pretty little forktail...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...Her lothad been narrow and prosaic,—bitterly so, the visitor waslikely to think; she was little used to expressing herself, andno doubt would have wondered what Mr...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
...But the reasonfor my assignment to her was prosaic...
John Charles Beecham 「The Argus Pheasant」
..." In prosaic English this means "Japan Soul...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...The prosaic Occidental discounts all sentiment that has not first satisfied the demands of business and justice...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...The prosaic nature of the Japanese has not impressed me so much as the visionary tendency of the people, and their idealism...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...A dull, unimaginative, prosaic nature cannot be exuberantly optimistic...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...Not only art and literature, but, as already noted, science, philosophy, politics, and even the practical arts and prosaic farming are impossible without it...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...That in Japan, however, which has interfered most powerfully with the spread and dominance of Buddhism has been the practical and prosaic Confucian ethics...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...Among the idealized presences about the Virgin's throne may sometimesbe seen the prosaic figure of the donor, whose munificence has madethe picture possible...
Estelle M. Hurll 「The Madonna in Art」
...We have nothing like it in ourbookshops, where the stereotyped thriller and prosaic lifeand adventure novels are popular to the majority of EnglishReaders...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
...We are nothere concerned with the prosaic routine of a mere planetary orbit...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...His nature was too prosaic to admit the existence of such phantoms...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
...If we could visit the moon, there is not among us a person so prosaic and unimaginative that he would not, the very first thing, begin to search for traces of its inhabitants...
Garrett Serviss 「Curiosities of the Sky」
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