Adjective : conversant with Spanish history. From Dictionary.com.
These are tough, Irish and Italian working-class towns, and anybody who claimed any kind of conversance with Emerson was an alien immediately. From Wordnik.com. [Why Read?] Reference
Readers desiring to push their conversance with the literary history of. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
A little less American Eagle and a little more geopolitical conversance would be a good start for the protestors. From Wordnik.com. [American Militarism and Le donne di Vicenza | Jewschool] Reference
Our conversance and disagreement now needs just few âtype-insâ ™ and âclicksâ ™ to be put across. From Wordnik.com. [Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core: Official Google Voice App Blocked From App Store] Reference
"About my engagement to the serf Sheen, here," Stile said, unpleased about Merle's conversance with his private life. From Wordnik.com. [Juxtaposition]
Since Ms. Farhi's conversance with Iran is partly a result of living and working there for a time, we asked her if she thought Iranians were in denial. From Wordnik.com. [What's It Like Waiting Around to Be Bombed?] Reference
Thou hast heard diverse discourses from Rishis of great knowledge and sacred deeds, of wealth of penances and excellence of blood, of conversance with the. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Capitals were natural centers of mental movement, and it was natural for the classes with most leisure, most freedom, most means of cultivation, and most conversance with the wide world to have lucidity though often they had it not. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference
Miss Karpe, whose conversance with the details of travelling I envy, mounted her horse on her own side-saddle, dressed in a short grey waterproof, and a broad-brimmed Leghorn hat tied so tightly over her ears with a green veil as to give it the look of a double spout. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
That man of wisdom who, with his senses and soul under control, O Bharata, fasts, by abstaining from one of the two meals, on the fifth and the sixth days of the moon as also on the day of the full moon, becomes endured with forgiveness and beauty of person and conversance with the scriptures. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
The requirements include a minimum of 20 years of hands-on experience in the washing and finishing of hand-knotted carpets, 30 years 'experience in carpet management production, carpet experience in post-conflict regions, a minimum of 50 business relationships with high-end retailers in Europe and North America -- and conversance in French, German and Turkish. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. set to award $1 million contract to expand the market for Afghan carpets] Reference
I lay no claim to conversance with those truly deep meanings. From Wordnik.com. [Aish.com: Spirituality] Reference
Europe some conversance with French, German, Spanish, and Italian, and an insatiable thirst for literature in these, languages. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Instance] Reference
Let it be known's say you already have a brilliant picture, and the conversance to back it up that inclination assign you to a postcard an special ebook. From Wordnik.com. [Article directories Celibataire Urbaine] Reference
The sleekness of the flanks betokens his conversance with other people's corn-cribs, and he has a habit of shying at all the farm-house gates as if habituated to stopping whenever he liked and staying to dinner. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Chesapeake] Reference
But in lapse of time it became the pretext and cover for the grossest sensuality; and the associations which the unlearned reader has with the name are only strengthened by conversance with the literature to which it gave birth. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of Moral Philosophy] Reference
Goethe lived through a rich and various experience, of book-culture, emotion, conversance with men and affairs, in the attitude of an explorer and observer, unbound by creeds, but open to all teaching from past records or present impressions. From Wordnik.com. [The Chief End of Man] Reference
And though some conversance with them there was, yet in those parts folk knew next to nothing of them; but, adhering to the honest, simple ways of their forefathers, had not seen, nay for the most part had not so much as heard tell of, a parrot. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron, Volume II] Reference
But in the case of books, as of all analogous property, the next best thing to acting for oneself is to employ a high-class dealer, or, if the line is very special, one who enjoys a reputation for conversance with the particular branch of inquiry. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time] Reference
New conversance with tradesmen's bills had forced his reasoning into a new channel of comparison: he had begun to consider from a new point of view what was necessary and unnecessary in goods ordered, and to see that there must be some change of habits. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
Karpe, whose conversance with the details of travelling I envy, mounted her horse on her own side-saddle, dressed in a short grey waterproof, and a broad-brimmed Leghorn hat tied so tightly over her ears with a green veil as to give it the look of a double spout. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
At fifteen her knowledge of Italian, studied under Metastasio, was the only branch of her education which had been fairly attended to, if we except considerable conversance with the "Lives of the Saints" and other legendary lore, the favorite fictions of monastic compilers. 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
But increased conversance with nature and art constantly reveals new capacities of comfort and happiness in life, and that, not for the strong alone, but for the feeble, the suffering, the helpless, so that there are none to whom humanity knows not how to render continued life desirable. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of Moral Philosophy] Reference
Harley, the second Earl of Oxford, vast and precious as they may have been, were not equal in magnitude or in value to those of Heber, of whom the most surprising and most interesting trait is his conversance with the interiors of so many of his treasures; nor should we ever forget his generosity in lending them to literary workers. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time] Reference
The second chapter he devotes to his youthful adventures in the contraband trade on the Biscayan Coast and the French frontier, his capture and imprisonment at Bilbao under a two years 'sentence, which was remitted on the discovery of his familiar and inherited conversance with the English tongue, and his imprisonment exchanged for a secret mission to Corsica (1794). From Wordnik.com. [Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales] Reference
"Why, father," said Aunt Salomy, as we sat at table, giving me a glance indicative of a beaming conversance with elegant conventionalities; "ye. From Wordnik.com. [Vesty of the Basins] Reference
12 On Kafka's conversance with the nearly universal mystical archetype of the series of gates leading to ever more rarefied levels of spiritual perception, see Grözinger (46-54) for the. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on 'Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites'] Reference
"The Brahmana said, 'Know that intelligence devoted to Brahman, is the lower Arani; the preceptor is the upper Arani; penances and conversance wit tithe scriptures are to cause the attrition. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
A considerable extent, to widen our horizon, to give us new ideas and sympathies, to enrich and brighten our lives; in greater degree, that is the role of the fine arts, and of that wide conversance with beauty and truth that we call culture. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
A very unsatisfactory aspect of this business by proxy, where an inexperienced amateur with a well-lined purse employs an almost equally inexperienced person to act on his behalf -- that is to say, one who is a bookseller by vocation, but who enjoys no conversance with bibliographical niceties. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time] Reference
The widow of Badur being possessed of a great treasure and desirous of retiring to Mecca, was persuaded by this man to embark with him in a galleon, with which he treacherously sailed to Egypt, whence he carried the treasure to Constantinople and presented it to the sultan; who, because of his conversance in the affairs of India, made him commander of a galley, and ordered him to return to India with the fleet under. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference
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