...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」
...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」
...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」
...In this plain story of mine there will be so many wild doings ere theend is reached, that I beg my reader's assent to a prosaic digression...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...She appeared to treat her costume as a usual and prosaic affair...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
...A dull, unimaginative, prosaic nature cannot be exuberantly optimistic...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
... the prosaic...
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」
...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」
...We are becomeliteral and exacting, addicted to the pedantry of the prescriptive, ifnot of the prosaic...
W. C. Brownell 「French Art」
...No one would even insist that, distinctly prosaic as are thequalities of Boileau—and I should say his was a crucial instance—hewould have done better to abjure verse...
W. C. Brownell 「French Art」
...And their portraits are almost defiantlyreal, void often of arrangement, and as little artificial as the veryfrequently prosaic atmosphere appertaining to their sometimes very starksubjects suggests...
W. C. Brownell 「French Art」
...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」
...His nature was too prosaic to admit the existence of such phantoms...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
..."Oh, you prosaic little woman!" cried Mahony, and laid down his book tokiss her...
Henry Handel Richardson 「Australia Felix」
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