causerie

Whatever was the nature of His Majesty's causerie he arrived at Santander seemingly more spruce and sprightly than ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

Up to this time, he had observed a profound silence; but for all that, I fancied he was not disinclined to a little causerie.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid

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

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

Clarétie, Jules, a French journalist, novelist, dramatic author, and critic, born at Limoges; has published some 40 volumes of causeries, history, and fiction; appointed Director of the Theatre Français in 1893; b.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Look here, Helena," he said, "I've been feeling I was a bit of a brute about those causeries of yours.

From Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke