causerie
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Whatever was the nature of His Majesty's causerie he arrived at Santander seemingly more spruce and sprightly than ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the hands of a pinchbeck Anatole France, how unendurable the review conceived as a causerie would become!
From The Art of Letters by Robert Lynd
Was the book to be a causerie, or a plain statement of facts?
From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland
I am sure that a causerie by Sainte-Beuve often sends a reader, with a zest he had never found unaided, to a book he had never opened unadvised.
From Since Cézanne by Clive Bell
He speaks without notes; for, indeed, such a causerie spins itself, like a sailor's yarn, though out of finer materials.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
As the urbane veteran of perhaps 100 diplomatic causeries in the last ten months, Mr. Davis could afford to ignore the implication of naivete.
From Time Magazine Archive
His plays are witty, caustic causeries of a decadent society.
From Time Magazine Archive
Raffles had indeed filled that talking-machine— thirteen full cylinders of it—with as choice an assortment of causeries and humorous anecdotes as any one could have wished to hear.
From R. Holmes & Co. by John Kendrick Bangs
That admirable man, whom France will always worship, Canrobert, said how much he should miss and regret those intimate causeries at our five o'clock teas.
From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt
You can have stocks, horses, commerce, law, medicine, small talk, art, science, the theater and religion in fifteen minute causeries, every day if you like.
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various
