...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」
...Therefore, I, who view the matter in a prosaic light, that is to say in the light of reality, I say: one cake is very little for three mouths...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
... If I hadn'tbeen a prosaic body, I wouldn't be sitting here to-night...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
... have not dropped one word on the subject of the naturalhistory of their 'Isle of Song;' and though they may have dabbleda little in that prosaic pursuit...
Edward Jesse 「Anecdotes of Dogs」
...The "yumei-mujitsu" characteristic has helped much in this idealizing process, by bridging the chasm between the prosaic fact and the ideal...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
... the prosaic...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...Japanese prosaic matter-of-factness may similarly be shown to have intimate relations to the nature of the social order...
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」
...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」
...There was a radio transmitter and receiver, but improvedout of all recognition from those in use in the prosaic year 1930...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930」
...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」
...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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