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
Take, for instance, the delightful sketch in the causerie of Oliver Wendell Holmes; the character of the young man called John.
From What I Saw in America by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
In the hands of a pinchbeck Anatole France, how unendurable the review conceived as a causerie would become!
From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert
We are instituting a causerie for the special benefit of this large class of readers, i.e. those who get out of their depth in the transition from Silas to Joseph.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
The first three would make a very good group for a twenty-page causerie.
From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George
His plays are witty, caustic causeries of a decadent society.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
It may not be literature, the writing of causeries, of Roundabout Papers, of rambling articles “on a broomstick,” and yet again, it may be literature!
From How to Fail in Literature; a lecture by Lang, Andrew
As an essayist, a writer of causeries, I do not think he has been surpassed among Englishmen in the art of interweaving quotation, abstract, and comment.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George
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
