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Note that our federal government has prosily and misleadingly renamed sludge "biosolids"; don't be fooled.

Andrew Kimbrell: Give Thanks, But Not For Toxic Sewage Sludge 2009

Then at least I was well enough wakened, but still those old Marlen bells rung on, not ringing for joy, but properly, prosily, steadily, merrily ringing “for church.”

Eothen 2003

Frederick believed in good fresh air and exercise; he walked her briskly from the Marble Arch entrance to Green Park and thence to St. James's Park, talking rather prosily all the way.

The Course Of True Love Neels, Betty 1993

Where _and_ is used instead of _but_, the incongruity savours of epigram: "He always talks truthfully _and_ prosily."

How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition Edwin A. Abbott

The 'Woodpecker' song is referred to in an illustrative way by Mrs. Finching (_L. D._), who says that her papa is sitting prosily breaking his new-laid egg in the back parlour like the woodpecker tapping.

Charles Dickens and Music James T. Lightwood

Suddenly, while the doctor was giving some experience of practice on the Flanders front, rather prosily, he sprang to his feet with a cry.

The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands 1919

So the two sexes adjusted themselves to life with this difference, that the women had to do all the outwitting and circumventing, all the little smart twists and turns, all the cunning scheming by which people snatch off what they want without appearing to, whereas men got their much or little by prosily sticking their hands out for it.

Nonsenseorship G. G. [Editor] Putnam 1915

The 'Woodpecker' song is referred to in an illustrative way by Mrs. Finching (L.D.), who says that her papa is sitting prosily breaking his new-laid egg in the back parlour like the woodpecker tapping.

Charles Dickens and Music Lightwood, James T 1912

It had something the effect of an explosion there in the quiet room where they had been talking so prosily.

The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest Hulbert Footner 1911

And she often seeing him without any collar on, and needing a shave mebbe, and cherishing her own secret romantic dreams, while like as not he's prosily figuring out how he's going to make the next payment on the endowment policy.

Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903