As Sally says this, without a thought in a thoughtful face but what belongs to the subject, her mother is conscious that she herself is quite prepared to infer that Prosy already knows all about it.
I wish I had some more legitimate excuse to offer for my seeming want of courtesy than the fact of my having to attend a prosy dinner; but I haven't.
Surely Bettina had been teasing him when she mentioned such a prosy gift as that!
You know a rainbow after all is nothing but drops of water with the sun shining through, and maybe my rainbow table has a prosy explanation, too.
Yet they continued to flourish long after Heywood had set another example, and with them the cuffing of ears and drunken gambolling which we may see, in the works of other men, trying to rescue prosy scenes from dullness.
In spite of this the different sections of the story remain tolerably clear as we proceed, and the interest never flags for longer than the brief minutes when prosy Oxford dons talk learnedly.
Roland threw aside his cigar, and resigned himself to the prospect of an hour's prosy discussion of things in which he felt no kind of interest, no ray of pleasure.
Thenceforward their lives will be but prosy and dull to the world, however full to them the years may be of serenity and peace.
Must we be prosyif we are profoundly, uncynically sincere?
But he happened to be thanking Gower Woodseer's whip for the comfortable numbness he felt at Carinthia's behaviour, while detesting her for causing him to desire it and endure it, and exonerate his prosy castigator.
If the sweetest little girl you ever saw knew perfectly whom you meant when you said "Dear," what was the use of hunting up such prosy names as May or Alice?
In another moment the Journalist was most horridly involved with the people on his left in a prosy discussion regarding Japanese servants.
Now as this honorable member was prosy and commonplace, not to say stupid, I should not detain my readers with any allusion to his speech, but as illustrating a prominent and very creditable feature of the debates in the House.
To be sure, demonstrations of applause at a good bit, or of discontent with a prosy speaker, are common, but anything approaching disorder is of rare occurrence.
In truth, a prosy cleric of five-and-forty wants encouragement to make him eloquent.
She's had it prosy enough ever since, too," remarked Allison.
It was so prosy and commonplace after the grand things she had planned.
No one but Tom had arrived at the office and for just a few moments, standing there near Miss Ellison's typewriter and with the prosy letter files about, he was again in France.
Perhaps the average clerk would have proposed this; would have suggested hitting this convenient little trail, about as short and prosy as a back alley.
In the way of accomplishment of these grand results the obstacles were foreseen--such as prosy essays, tedious discussions, formal addresses or sermons, which generalized everything and rendered it nought.
They must draw together, and a dull, prosy conductor will check them all.
Waste not a moment of time in pointless andprosy harangues.
Not wishing to convey the idea of a serious and prosy discourse, I advised my manager to call the entertainment "A causerie.
It is not always the exaggerating pen of the author that creates heroes and heroines out of our prosy humanity, and it is an undeniable and stable fact that truth is far stranger than fiction.
And yet, there is an exquisite pleasure for us in the weaving of those delicate golden webs that are destined to be torn so rudely asunder by a prosy and matter-of-fact reality.
I had pictured my cousin Bessie as quite a morbid andprosy character, suspended midway between a hopeless resignation and a helpless despair.
I was thinking of many things the while, and allowing myself to become absorbed in an earnest rehearsal of my own prosy life.
Some dear old prosy English people made me laugh so.
A black slave told a prosy tale about thieves--and the rest were more long than pointed.
His remarks on the United States are in a more discriminating tone than is often attained by English tourists, but the whole tone of the volume is, for the most part, so prosy and commonplace as to make its perusal an intolerable bore.
At the same time he was apparently listening to a prosy and interminable story from one of the group of which he was a member.
He gives the facts, and loses much of the spirit, often spoiling the beauty of the Biblical narrative by a prosy paraphrase.
Long before the close of this address, which we are bound to say was of a very prosy character for Mr. Pickwick, the Serjeant had relapsed into a state of abstraction.
Well, then, draw that little table into this window, and let me get out of hearing of those prosy politics.
