Adjective : excursive conversation. From Dictionary.com.
Nero politely routed an excursive bug from his path and lay down to listen. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
Willises invariably restricted the somewhat excursive tastes of female servants in general. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz] Reference
So is Jamie Lynn Sigler, the "Soprano" star suffered from anorexia and excursive bulimia for years. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2006] Reference
Now there are some "moods of my own mind" in which I detest all vehicles of conveyance, when on an excursive tour to admire the antique and picturesque. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828] Reference
•What keeps me going: The weekends, holidays and vacation I don't excursive. From Wordnik.com. [Columnist: Stephen Miller] Reference
He did not possess the excursive genius of Mr. Badger, nor the wit of Mr. Stanly. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians] Reference
At the concluding word, Mrs. Chump was no longer sustained by her excursive fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference
Shall it rattle with the drum-beat, bound with gymnastics, court fame by excursive. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Dartmouth College] Reference
The great English writers have written with a free hand, prolific, excursive, diffuse. From Wordnik.com. [Emerson and Other Essays] Reference
Like so many other men of great gifts, Burke in his youth was desultory and excursive. From Wordnik.com. [Burke]
Fortunately I was too tired last night to be excursive in fancy, or I might have slept badly. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
Highland drover engaged in gathering and keeping in the straight road his excursive black cattle. From Wordnik.com. [The Betrothed] Reference
Chaucer, and the old dramatic writers were all dipped into, with the excursive flight of a swallow. From Wordnik.com. [The Crayon Papers] Reference
He liked the unaffected, quiet conversation of Manning, the vivacious, excursive talk of Leigh Hunt. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Lamb]
Anne blushed deeply, and stopped his too excursive discourse by hastily saying that she always respected old folks like him. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpet-Major] Reference
Understanding and solving this Palin Conundrum will have more to do with her discursive creators than with her excursive self. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
He was desperately excursive, and spoke almost for an hour, but the prospect of £4000 to my children made me a patient auditor. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference
There is never, as in the Culex and Ciris, a display of irrelevant facts, a yielding to the temptation of being excursive and episodic. From Wordnik.com. [Vergil]
As his mind was capacious, his curiosity excursive, and his industry continual, his writings are very numerous and his subjects various. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2] Reference
Mr. Plumer was a man of cool and excellent judgment, and he thought that Mr. Webster on this occasion was too excursive and declamatory. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Webster] Reference
He penetrated the neighbouring estates with the excursive and reckless nature of the Prince of Troy, and, more than once, in consequence. From Wordnik.com. [The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series] Reference
As his mind was capacious, his curiosity excursive, and his industry continual, his writings are very numerous, and his subjects various. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II] Reference
Henceforth Watt's ingenuity became excursive, discretionary, almost capricious; but in every phase and form it continued to be beneficent. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
There he shows himself the same kind, artless, good-humored, excursive, sensible, whimsical, intelligent being that he appears in his writings. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Goldsmith A Biography] Reference
This paper serves as a curious instance in what manner the censors of books clipped the wings of genius when it was found too daring or excursive. From Wordnik.com. [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
The young mind of Colleton, excursive as it was, could scarcely realize to itself the strange and rapidly-succeeding changes of the last few days. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia] Reference
In one of these excursive glances she perceived among a group of young men, the very he, who had given them a lecture on toothpick-cases at Gray's. From Wordnik.com. [Sense and Sensibility] Reference
In one of these excursive glances she perceived, among a group of young men, the very he, who had given them a lecture on toothpick-cases, at Gray's. From Wordnik.com. [Sense and Sensibility] Reference
Is it not that while the body has been quiescent, the excursive Soul has been in spiritual presence on the edge of that beetling and stupendous height?. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5] Reference
The excursive line may embrace the wilds of Arabia and Tartary, but the circle will be ultimately reduced to the decreasing limit of the Roman monarchy. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4] Reference
Her acquaintance among them was more widely extended, her visits to their humble dwellings were more frequent and excursive than they had ever been before. From Wordnik.com. [Agnes Grey] Reference
A ethereally excursive, she gave him a new enjoyment; which led to reflections -- a sounding of Nature, almost a question to her, on the verge of a doubt. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
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