What should be poetry turns into polished prose.

In the city of black pints and polished prose, there is no party quite like the one for St Patrick's Day.

He was credited with redrafting and editing the commission's voluminous report into a work of polished prose.

But he is not your typical columnist, sending in 700 words or so of polished prose each month.

For most of his career, Price worked each day until he had produced at least 350 words of polished prose composed in tiny, elegant script.

Conspicuously absent from these efforts, leaving aside polished prose, is a context.

These advantages ought to result in more polished prose.

The only constants throughout the series are expert plotting, well-drawn characters, and polished prose.

But doing so would send the column, including all the raw notes and polished prose, skittering off into the ozone layer, never to be seen again.

But Mr. Wager will never win any prizes for imaginative or polished prose.