| 1. | Let me be prosaic so far as facts can be. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 2. | That sounded so prosaic but to my surprise I found it true. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 3. | "It was a prosaic way of forming a friendship, but it was effective. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 4. | "The very prosaic one of our landlord.. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 5. | It is spoken of also as a prosaic age, lacking in great ideals. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 6. | It was hard to believe that amongst so prosaic surroundings of neglect and dust and decay there was any ground for such fear as already we knew. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 7. | He remembered his own power with a jury his vanity and his chivalry alike approved of this heroic method he was bound by the prosaic facts--he had his own theory of the case, which no mere evidence could gainsay. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 8. | It is not that he is prosaic far from that but he replaces the solemn vision by the farcical phantasmagoria. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | In German, equally, a word which in ordinary use has a bare prosaic character may receive a fairer and finer quality from its place in verse. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |