...They were his own class—modest folk, who sought for a coloured backgroundto their prosaic city lives and found it in this odd settlement...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...'I cannot hope in my prosaic words to reproduce that amazing discourse...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...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」
...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...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...They prefer a supernaturaltheory that allows free scope to their fancy and religious instinct,to one that offers a more prosaic explanation...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...Earlier, in the intensely prosaic period thatimmediately succeeded, the romance of the Crusades was gone; later,Europe was girding itself for the sterner task of reformation...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...A tradition; something to makeless prosaic the political machine of Republican government...
Various 「Astounding Stories, April, 1931」
...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」
...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」
...The movements of the lovely planetare there prescribed with a prosaic detail hardly in harmony with thecharacter usually ascribed to the Goddess of Love...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...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」
...Himself he had only half believed in it; or believed solong as he refrained from going into prosaic details...
Henry Handel Richardson 「Australia Felix」
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