| Their rhythms hover uncertainly between the ordinary Shakespearean pentameter and a fairly prosy free verse. |
| Fancy prosy being in love with anybody, or anybody being in love with prosy! |
| With publication, anecdotes became more polished, the characters less distinctive and stereotypical, the prevailing tone patronising and prosy. |
| No, prosy dear, I shall call you prosy, whatever the consequences may be. |
| Sir Dioscorides Gayler's a cousin of his, you know, and would pass on his practice to prosy on easy terms. |
| She would get prosy by himself, and make him tell her all about it. |
