'In my profession,' said Bond prosily, 'the exact meaning of words is vital.

He looked so smug that she itched to throw something at him, especially when he added prosily, "But I doubt if you'll--what did you say?

They were hands that could grasp and hold, and they excited him even while he was talking prosily: "If I stay here, I'd like to get a sort of permanent place cheaper than the big hotels.

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.

He had expected to be torn limb from limb, to be dragged to the nearest Commissariat: he courted condemnation, envisaged the guillotine; 'stead of which, he was prosily knocked down by a bow which would have felled an ox.