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A desultory conversation on politics, in which neither took the slightest interest, was a safe neutral ground.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSIn the lulls, Robert and his mother exchanged bits of desultory conversation.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINThe exchange, however, was still the field where a desultory fight was kept up by the shareholders.
BLACK DIAMONDSMR JKAIAnd you will find I have a good deal of what you have, only mine in a perfectly desultory manner, as is necessary to 358 an exile.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - SWANSTON EDITION VOL. 25 (OF 25)ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTheir desultory discourse was soon interrupted by their arrival at the cottage of Mr. Wharton.
THE SPYJ. FENIMORE COOPERBy 8.0 the musketry and the shelling began to slacken down although there was a good deal of desultory shooting.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME 2IAN HAMILTONEverything seemed as usual; Uncle Lambert, in evening dress, was playing desultory snatches from Ruddigore.
THE TALKING HORSEF. ANSTEYEver since the Kinghamstead election I had maintained what seemed a desultory friendship with Isabel.
THE NEW MACHIAVELLIHERBERT GEORGE WELLSThe schools must see to it that the desultory and dissipating methods of reading, so prevalent in the home, are not encouraged.
SELECT SPEECHES OF DANIEL WEBSTERDANIEL WEBSTERAdopting a desultory system of warfare, he obliged them to recross the Apure, having lost half their original numbers.
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION, NO. 366VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO DESULTORY
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