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
My lecture to-night at the Central Music Hall is advertised as a causerie.
From A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things by Max O'Rell
I have also read a causerie on Virgil and one on Theocritus.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
However, he congratulated me on having been able to do justice to the causerie, as if I had had a bumper house.
From A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things by Max O'Rell
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 Grant Showerman
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
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
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
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
