Prose example sentences

Like the saint-poets, the Sufis too composed poems expressing their feelings, and a rich literature in prose, including anecdotes and fables, developed around them.It is for the patient, persistent, persevering drudge with a heart so shrunken that nothing can break it; rejection slips don t mean a thing to him; he at once sets about making a fresh copy of the long prose piece and sends it on to another editor enclosing postage for the return of the manuscript.The prosecutor requested the judge to postpone the trial.There was also a long tradition of prose tales of adventure and heroism in Persian and Urdu, known as dastan.This style was quickly replaced by Bankim's prose which was Sanskritised but also contained a more vernacular style.The great prose-writers of the world may not admit it, but my conviction grows stronger day after day that prosewriting is not and cannot be the true pursuit of a genius.