Both Uses of
prosaic
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- The very prosaic one of our landlord.†
Chpt 35-36 *
- France is so prosaic, and Paris so civilized a city, that you will not find in its eighty-five departments—I say eighty-five, because I do not include Corsica—you will not find, then, in these eighty-five departments a single hill on which there is not a telegraph, or a grotto in which the commissary of police has not put up a gaslamp.†
Chpt 39-40
Definition:
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(prosaic) lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging