causerie

Example Sentences

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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

He speaks without notes; for, indeed, such a causerie spins itself, like a sailor's yarn, though out of finer materials.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward

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 Bell, Clive

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 Seaman, Owen, Sir

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 Waite, Arthur Edward