You have been very patient, and I have been rather prosy, I am afraid.

Bez was a rather prosy poet, and his eye was not in a fine frenzy rolling.

She thinks me rather prosy and stupid at times, poor girl, because-well ,because ,inpoint of fact, I am.

Uncle Win had been reading aloud from "Jerusalem Delivered," but Doris thought it rather prosy, and strayed off into her own thoughts.

After a time he kept up, mainly on her account, a regular intercourse with the brother, who was becoming rather prosy, as was Wentworth himself.