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
A man can escape everything except himself; and so it chanced that Hubert Brett felt a brute twice, repented twice, about one causerie.
From Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke
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 G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
It is easier to divine the "Sources" and the inspiration of The Age of Bronze than to place the reader au courant with the literary and political causerie of the day.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
He had lived much in Paris, where he studied impressionism and perfected his natural talent for causerie, and his inborn preference for the hedonistic view of life.
From The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
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
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 Andrew Lang
But it is a good piece of special pleading, an excellent piece of writing, and one of the very best and most consummate literary causeries in English.
From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury
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
