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 could no longer--it was impossible--be the mere inspiration of the moment, and only a harmless causerie.
From Quisisana, or Rest at Last by Friedrich Spielhagen
As for the exquisite little causerie it remains to us safe and secure, veritable treasure-trove of unsullied gold against the years that the locust hath eaten.
From Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf by Rennell Rodd
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
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
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
This volume attempts to be, not a series of causeries on the literary history of France, but a Short History of French Literature.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
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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