interlocution
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But Lyndon Baines Johnson, in his TV interlocution with Walter Cronkite, gave as full a rendition as immediate history is apt to hear.
From Time Magazine Archive
A good continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shows slowness: and a good reply or second speech, without a good settled speech, showeth shallowness and weakness.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
We exchangd no more words that day.—Your account of the fierce faces in the Hanging, with the presumed interlocution of the Eagle and the Tyger, amused us greatly.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
Simple, and yet eminently dramatic in scene, character, and interlocution, George Eliot has painted pictures from middle and common life, and is thus the exponent of a large humanity.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee
A good continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shows slowness; and a good reply, or second speech, without a good settled speech, showeth shallowness and weakness.
From Talks on Talking by Grenville Kleiser
