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
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
Similarly, when he turned for a too brief space to literary criticism, he proved himself the master of all living men in the art of the literary causerie.
From The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd
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
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 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
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
Avice Milbrey had the fortune to witness one of these bed-time causeries.
From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Harry Leon Wilson
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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