Synonyms:
prose
Meaning: ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
Usage examples
"She looks, to me, like a very ordinary line of prose.
I believed that Plautus or Terence was being read in prose.
But common sense would be just as good in prose as in verse."
And how difficult it seems to be to write of Chopin except in terms of impassioned prose!
In this book you find the very life; the most vulgar prose, and the most exquisite poetry.
Description of the Duke of Wellington's Palace on the Pleasant Banks of the Lusiva; this article is a small prose tale or incident; 3.
Elinor, when she had formed a wish, never listened to an objection. 'What an old fashioned style you prose in!' she cried; 'who could believe you came so lately from France?
He ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse.
Considering the number of educated women that lived in the latter days of the Republic and during the earlier part of the Empire, and their well known culture and love of letters, it is reasonable to suppose that they may have written much in both prose and verse of which we have no record.