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

Since he last broke a lance with Michael, the devil has debilitated mentally, and the substance of his causerie with Diana reminds one of Robert Montgomery and even worse exemplars.

From Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer by Arthur Edward Waite

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

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

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

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

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

I forget in which of his many dealings with an author who, as he remarks in the "Coppet-and-Weimar" causeries, was "an idol of his youth and one that he never renounced," this fancy occurs.

From Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy by R. S. Greig

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