"causerie" which meditates more broadly on the novelist's life, and on his relations with contemporary writers. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
As in time it did not die away, but began to get a little more heated (one voice appearing to be raised in entreaty and the other, Elizabeth's, in protest), I thought I had better saunter out and interrupt the causerie. From Wordnik.com. [Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel] Reference
With his tail slightly vibrant, he conducts a dignified causerie. From Wordnik.com. [Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned] Reference
We had a great causerie over pictures of home scenes, and of many places in India. From Wordnik.com. [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference
I was once booked by my manager to give a causerie in the drawing-room of a New York millionaire. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Paul Bourget] Reference
In the hands of a pinchbeck Anatole France, how unendurable the review conceived as a causerie would become!. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Letters] Reference
Take, for instance, the delightful sketch in the causerie of Oliver Wendell Holmes; the character of the young man called. From Wordnik.com. [What I Saw in America] Reference
This work is a literary causerie inspired in part by the reading of Alexandrian criticism, but in larger part by experience. From Wordnik.com. [Horace and His Influence]
It hardly seemed a speech when he was at the tribune, more like a causerie, though he told very plain truths sometimes to the peuple souverain. From Wordnik.com. [My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879]
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 Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916] Reference
If you read Notes on a Cellar Book, as you should, you will agree that it is a charmingly light-hearted causerie for a gentleman to publish at the age of seventy-five. From Wordnik.com. [Beer and Cider] Reference
At five o'clock on the day the causerie was to be given, the lady sent to my manager to say that she would expect me to arrive at nine o'clock and to speak for about an hour. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Paul Bourget] Reference
And besides, it was pre-eminently a journal of dignity and good form, with an art column, and a curio column, and a literary page, and a chess problem, and rather a delicately witty causerie by. From Wordnik.com. [The Best British Short Stories of 1922] Reference
"I have also read a causerie on Virgil and one on Theocritus. From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
“Come often,” said Mme. de Marelle; “it has been a pleasant causerie. From Wordnik.com. [Bel Ami] Reference
However, such reflections will not assist me to finish my causerie, for I wrote them all last week. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Chair on the Boulevard] Reference
At eleven I was ready to write my Saturday causerie for the Will o’ the Wisp; it took me till close upon one o’clock, which was rather too long. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
This time it was I who began the causerie. From Wordnik.com. [Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel] Reference
"My causerie is half a column short. From Wordnik.com. [A Chair on the Boulevard] Reference
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