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
This work is a literary causerie inspired in part by the reading of Alexandrian criticism, but in larger part by experience.
From Horace and His Influence by Grant Showerman
It is Dryden, and not Sainte-Beuve, who is the true father of the literary causerie; and he still remains its unequalled master.
From English literary criticism by Various
It hardly seemed a speech when he was at the tribune, more like a causerie, though he told very plain truths sometimes to the peuple souverain.
From My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 by Mary Alsop King Waddington
We had a great causerie over pictures of home scenes, and of many places in India.
From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch
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 was not like those other causeries at six o'clock; she wished they always could take place at eight.
From Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke
Five minutes of normal causeries, mere currencies of speech, and then the match to the train!
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
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
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