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
We are instituting a causerie for the special benefit of this large class of readers, i.e. those who get out of their depth in the transition from Silas to Joseph.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman
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
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
His hand may be traced week by week in many columns and especially, in alternate issues, on the page given up to the literary causerie.
From Old Junk by S. K. (Samuel Kerkham) Ratcliffe
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 their most solemn causeries were upon the vital theme of The American Reputation in Letters.
From Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
As an essayist, a writer of causeries, I do not think he has been surpassed among Englishmen in the art of interweaving quotation, abstract, and comment.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
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
