Causerie

It was their custom to meet once a week, at the house of one or another, for a "causerie," as the avocat called it. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

"causerie" which meditates more broadly on the novelist's life, and on his relations with contemporary writers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A.J. P. Taylor's causerie on Irish history, "A Very Special Case" [NYR, J.ly 28], is an indication that Englishmen should not write on Irish subjects because of an. ❋ Branigan, J.F. (1966)

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. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Early in the seventeenth century the/causerie/(chat) was highly esteemed in France. ❋ Lillian Eichler Watson (N/A)

This work is a literary _causerie_ inspired in part by the reading of Alexandrian criticism, but in larger part by experience. ❋ Grant Showerman (N/A)

It was, furthermore, extremely bright, everybody was out in the open, and although the amateurs had come prepared for a momentary brush with a bowel or two, they had no reason to expect a prolonged causerie upon even more intimate matters. ❋ Unknown (1937)

"There was a spirit of literature in the air" says Mr. Benjamin Sulte writing of these times, "and this came not only by reading but by the more important practice of conversation and 'causerie de salon' which is so thoroughly French." ❋ Unknown (1922)

With his tail slightly vibrant, he conducts a dignified causerie. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)

I am sure that a _causerie_ by Sainte-Beuve often sends a reader, with ❋ Clive Bell (1922)

This work is a literary causerie inspired in part by the reading of Alexandrian criticism, but in larger part by experience. ❋ Showerman, Grant, 1870-1935 (1922)

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. ❋ Unknown (1921)

Just before we left Oxford I had begun to write reviews and occasional notes for the Pall Mall, which he was then editing; after we settled in London, and he had become also editor of Macmillan, he asked me, to my no little conceit, to write a monthly causerie on a book or books for that magazine. ❋ Ward, Mrs Humphry (1918)

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 ❋ John Cournos (1915)

His hand may be traced week by week in many columns and especially, in alternate issues, on the page given up to the literary_ causerie. ❋ Unknown (1915)

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. ❋ Waddington, Mary King (1914)

In the hands of a pinchbeck Anatole France, how unendurable the review conceived as a causerie would become! ❋ Robert Lynd (1914)

I have a certain standing not only as a singer but as a critic, and I belong to one of the most brilliant causerie dinner clubs of the day, in which successful Bohemianism, politicians, men of affairs, artists, sculptors, and cultivated noblemen generally, mingle together in the easiest and most delightful intercourse. ❋ Herbert George (1909)