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
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
If you read Notes on a Cellar Book, as you should, you will agree that it is a charmingly light-hearted causerie for a gentleman to publish at the age of seventy-five.
From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres
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
The first three would make a very good group for a twenty-page causerie.
From The English Novel by George Saintsbury
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
He and his wife spoke English with a strong foreign accent; in their more intimate causeries they dropped into Yiddish.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
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
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