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 Showerman, Grant
He speaks without notes; for, indeed, such a causerie spins itself, like a sailor's yarn, though out of finer materials.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward
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 Rodd, Rennell
In the hands of a pinchbeck Anatole France, how unendurable the review conceived as a causerie would become!
From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert
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
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 Saintsbury, George
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 Bangs, John Kendrick
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 Coke, Desmond
