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  • The titles were near as long as books themselves: Treatise on the Propagation of Sheep, the Manufacture of Wool, and the Cultivation and Manufacture of Flax, by John Wily, or Cato Major, Or His Discourse of Old-Age: With Explanatory Notes, by M. T. Cicero, or Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, by Phillis Wheatley, and countless tracts containing sermons and advice.†   (source)
  • A kind of excellent dumb discourse, Willie!†   (source)
  • Once Georgi started you were in for a twenty-minute discourse on the former Soviet Union, waterfront property in Bulgaria, and his various cross-country motorhome trips with his wife Albena, who had passed away years ago and was greatly missed.†   (source)
  • For her, dealing with school trouble or risking mylife was nothing for discourse, nothing to debate.†   (source)
  • This is the level of our discourse.†   (source)
  • But Communists don't believe in ghosts," Estha said, as though they were continuing a discourse investigating solutions to the ghost problem.†   (source)
  • I had little interest in giving a discourse on, say, my insights into how I coped with the disease, or how it gave me new perspectives.†   (source)
  • What is unusual about it is seen when it ceases to be a mode of discourse and becomes an object of discourse.†   (source)
  • Their discourse went forward in a miasma of sweat and heat that suggested a kind of indolence.†   (source)
  • The Art of Discourse The essential nature of Socrates' art lay in the fact that he did not appear to want to instruct people.†   (source)
  • After a few days in Cange with Farmer, I came to expect such interpretive discourses.†   (source)
  • He tried to wait patiently for a lull in the conversation, but after a few minutes, it became plain the dwarves were not about to stop plying Orik with questions and advice, for such, he assumed, was the nature of their discourse.†   (source)
  • But had Dr. Jones been permitted to discourse on the cause of his indecision, he would have testified: "Perry Smith shows definite signs of severe mental illness.†   (source)
  • 'Excuse me,' Alex said again, words that were no longer polite discourse, but a plea for absolution.†   (source)
  • "We," he said, "discussed politics and current events and engaged in scintillating discourse."†   (source)
  • An engineer by training, he could always be distracted by technical discourse, always impressed by a clever one.†   (source)
  • Helen once found a burglar hiding beneath her bed in a rental place, but the neighbors didn't respond to her screams because they assumed that screaming was the normal mode of discourse for racetrackers.†   (source)
  • And no vampire here has discourse with God or with the devil!'†   (source)
  • A halfhour of discourse is launched.†   (source)
  • In the first interview Baer, in a seemingly casual manner, was able, in a skillfully arranged discourse, to bring in allusions to these strangers, whereby they would be convinced that he had looked into their hearts and knew their past.'†   (source)
  • Our mode tends more to cockfight than discourse.†   (source)
  • I was just about to say, I've long wanted to discourse with him.†   (source)
  • Heard friend Thayer preach two ingenious discourses from Jeremy [Jeremiah] loth, 6, and 7.†   (source)
  • I saw no purpose in further discourse with this woman.†   (source)
  • When she noticed that his nods were a polite appeasement rather than a meeting of minds, she ceased her breathless discourse and talked instead about her favorite bakery.†   (source)
  • He then proceeded to discourse upon the foolishness of consistency in a world where nothing was absolute except the principle of compromise.†   (source)
  • Therefore I addressed myself a second time to the stabbing, but Hwin came near to me and put her head in between me and the dagger and discoursed to me most excellent reasons and rebuked me as a mother rebukes her daughter.†   (source)
  • In another ("They put like this bandage stuff around it"), like served "to highlight the introduction of new entities into discourse."†   (source)
  • But they were shut out, listening at a door to words not meant for them: ill-mannered children or stupid servants overhearing the elusive discourse of their elders, and wondering how it would affect their lot.†   (source)
  • Our discourses were daily until about three and half weeks ago.†   (source)
  • He used to take guests around after dinner, discoursing upon the fragments.†   (source)
  • The proportion that discoursed in more depth on ideological issues such as liberty, constitutional rights, resistance to tyranny, and so on was smaller-40 percent.†   (source)
  • His voice carried with a minimum of vitality, as though he had come over to speak to Lane out of boredom or restiveness, not for any sort of human discourse.†   (source)
  • The trader misconstrued the tenor of the discourse; but the missionary, inured by years of humorless dissertations, soon put him right.†   (source)
  • Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.†   (source)
  • One of the sailors has pursed his lips against a woodwind, his fingers and thumb governing, shall we say, the ventages, whereupon, giving it breath, let us say, with his mouth, it, the pipe, discourses, as the saying goes, most eloquent music.†   (source)
  • Here are the rich boy and the poor boy and Mr. Barlow, their teacher and interlocutor, in long discourses alternating with dramatic scenes—danger and rescue allotted to the rich and the poor respectively.†   (source)
  • To gratify this Curiosity, which is so natural to a Reader, I design this Paper and my next, as Prefatory Discourses to my following Writings and shall give some Account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this Work.†   (source)
  • ESTRAGON: And suppose he— VLADIMIR: Let us not waste our time in idle discourse!†   (source)
  • I would nearly embrace the stove in gratitude for its warmth, while Ted would discourse rather wistfully about the last time in his memory the edge of the river froze solid.†   (source)
  • He talked for some time with these, discoursing on doctrine and practice, caste and creed, weather and the affairs of the day.†   (source)
  • And once again he launched on a long and fantastic discourse.†   (source)
  • LOGICIAN: [enchanted with his discourse] That would imply one rhinoceros either Asiatic or African ….†   (source)
  • They could always talk; and their discourse, witty, pithy, original, had such charms for me, that I preferred listening to, and sharing in it, to doing anything else.   (source)
  • Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.   (source)
  • Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.   (source)
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  • American schools are graduating students who are unarmed for public discourse - their great energy and idealism at the mercy of pop politics and the 7:00 news.   (source)
  • Between our discourses on early punk, big band and swing, and the questionable redeeming qualities of techno music, I was learning more and more about him.†   (source)
  • Titled "Discourses on Davila," and ultimately published as a book, they were largely a translation of a history of the French civil wars of the sixteenth century, a once-popular work, Historia delle guerre civili di Francia, by the Italian Enrico Caterino Davila, published first in 1630.†   (source)
  • And the analyses of the cases read like Bishop Bududira's discourses on the ways that poverty gets into the bodies of people.†   (source)
  • I am only a humble seeker of truth, and on occasion in the past have I been privileged to overhear the discourses of the learned.†   (source)
  • Such flaws were mainly an occasion for discourse.†   (source)
  • He lived in a solitary universe of discourse in those days.†   (source)
  • The essence was a brief discourse on drugs.†   (source)
  • Lively discourse was considered most important at Plato's Academy.†   (source)
  • She came, participated, picked up readily the concepts and fell in well with the discourse.†   (source)
  • But we do know that they were both masters of the art of discourse.†   (source)
  • In this dialogue he is carried away by Socrates' discourse on love and is tamed.†   (source)
  • Here, Phaedrus was convinced, was the originator of that style of discourse.†   (source)
  • Gorgias answers that it is concerned with discourse.†   (source)
  • It's the mode of discourse of Socrates in the Dialogues of Plato.†   (source)
  • You were always afraid of disappointing Father, being unequal to the level of discourse.†   (source)
  • "Friends, friends," said Edmund, "what is the use of all this discourse?†   (source)
  • The level and range of their discourse were always above and beyond the ordinary.†   (source)
  • Some years ago my neighbor was Charles Erskine Scott Wood, who wrote Heavenly Discourse.†   (source)
  • It is not a subject on which I will discourse.†   (source)
  • There was a kind of symbiosis in their relationship to these grand places: they gave life to the ancient architecture by making it the backdrop of their discourse, by refusing to worship at its altar as if it were a dead thing.†   (source)
  • For a week or so they spoke cautiously of what they'd seen, and then it faded out of the realm of the discourse they shared together.†   (source)
  • Taking a deep breath, the Count attempted to restore his composure, determined to read through the final pages of his old friend's final discourse.†   (source)
  • Farmer says that Ti Jean's discourse has reminded him of his first ardent explorations of Haiti and of the dozens of Voodoo ceremonies he attended.†   (source)
  • I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward.†   (source)
  • While in the balcony, a private acknowledgment was made that perhaps political discourse wasn't always so dull, after all.†   (source)
  • In his Discourse on Method, Descartes raises the question of the method the philosopher must use to solve a philosophical problem.†   (source)
  • He'd discourse on the animals' diets, reproduction, life spans, their interesting and unusual characteristics.†   (source)
  • His thin frame and the shininess of his face make this possible, and also a quality of innocence that surfaces at times—he's apt, for example, in the midst of an erudite discourse on the economic distribution of infectious disease, to startle you by interjecting, eagerly, "Ask me a question about Lord of the Rings."†   (source)
  • It is a first edition of the book of Descartes's philosophical essays published in 1637 in which his famous Discourse on Method originally appeared, and one of my most treasured possessions.†   (source)
  • He had sent me a copy of his latest book, Infections and Inequalities, a prodigiously footnoted discourse with case studies of individual patients to illustrate its main themes—the connections between poverty and disease, the maldistribution of medical technologies in the world, and "the immodest claims of causality" that scholars and health bureaucrats had offered for those phenomena.†   (source)
  • But history keeps happening, and it seems no harm and maybe some positive good to add to our historical heritage with some talk in this area of discourse.†   (source)
  • Deo didn't understand everything Charlie said, but he liked to listen to Charlie discourse on the history of the streets they crossed.†   (source)
  • She stretched her long legs out beneath the table and turned the pages of the nearest book, a septon's discourse on Maegor the Cruel's war against the Poor Fellows.†   (source)
  • Paulus sat upright in his chair, formally withdrawing, it seemed, to a more objective level of discourse.†   (source)
  • Among Confederates, 82 percent of the officers, compared with 52 percent of enlisted men, avowed patriotic motives; 52 percent of the officers but only 28 percent of the enlisted men went further and discoursed upon ideological goals.†   (source)
  • But though attempts were made by the Congress, and even by Andrew Jackson during his presidency, to end public discourse regarding slavery, their efforts failed.†   (source)
  • I was an apikoros to Danny Saunders, despite my belief in God and Torah, because I did not have side curls and was attending a parochial school where too many English subjects were offered and where Jewish subjects were taught in Hebrew instead of Yiddish, both unheard-of sins, the former because it took time away from the study of Torah, the latter because Hebrew was the Holy Tongue and to use it in ordinary classroom discourse was a desecration of God's Name.†   (source)
  • That means a C or maybe even an F. He chews on this prospect for a moment and looks to shore it up, meditating that the upholding of accepted academic standards is precisely what enables institutions like Brown to offer a diploma that has meaning, a seal showing that the recipients can master valuable skills of reasoned discourse, of deduction, exposition, and logical thinking, abilities that will help them to approach any subject, no matter how foreign, throughout their lives.†   (source)
  • Evan Horowitz and family are within earshot at the next table, talking about plans for their upcoming winter vacation in Hawaii, Evan's classes ("a piece of cake," he chortles) and goings-on at home in Connecticut, one long stretch of unself-conscious discourse suited to this place, Brown University, and the presumption of ongoing success.†   (source)
  • But this was a vastly expanded discourse, on the maldistribution of all the good fruits of modernity, especially of medicine and public health, a discourse that was both scholarly and passionate.†   (source)
  • How the intersecting systems help pull us apart, leaving us vague, drained, docile, soft in our inner discourse, willing to be shaped, to be overwhelmed—easy retreats, half beliefs.†   (source)
  • There was little he enjoyed more than an evening of spontaneous "chatter," of stories by candlelight in congenial surroundings, of political and philosophic discourse, "intimate, unreserved conversation," as he put it.†   (source)
  • In particular, he wanted religious freedom for Jews, as he had written earlier to a noted New York editor, Mordecai Noah, who had sent him a discourse delivered at the consecration of a synagogue in New York.†   (source)
  • Then, ever the cordial, impeccably mannered host, Tim winked at me, discoursed on Mozart, congratulated the kids on their knowledge of music, and passed the peanuts and cheese.†   (source)
  • It contained Campanula's City of the Sun, More's Utopia, Machiavelli's Discourses and The Prince, as well as long selections from St. Simon, Comte, Marx and Engels.†   (source)
  • …and appointments, saying which contemporary ecclesiastics were in good favor, which in bad, what recent theological hypothesis was suspect, and how this or that Jesuit or Dominican had skated on thin ice or sailed near the wind in his Lenten discourses; he had everything except the Faith, and later liked to attend benediction in the chapel of Brideshead and see the ladies of the family with their necks arched in devotion under their black lace mantillas; he loved forgotten scandals in…†   (source)
  • The end of these discourses was that one night during which she had shown every sign of unusual excitement, Mrs. Sinico caught up his hand passionately and pressed it to her cheek.†   (source)
  • It was diligently imitative of the best literary models of the day; of heart-to-heart-talk advertisements, "sales-pulling" letters, discourses on the "development of Will-power," and hand-shaking house-organs, as richly poured forth by the new school of Poets of Business.†   (source)
  • She was always ready to go skating, walking; always content to hear his discourses on the great things he was going to do, the distressed poor whom he would defend against the Unjust Rich, the speeches he would make at Banquets, the inexactitudes of popular thought which he would correct.†   (source)
  • His discourses would begin on dove's feet, but soon, when he turned to liberated peoples uniting for universal happiness, there would come a sound as of the rushing pinions of eagles—not that he wished it or even knew whence it came, though doubtless it originated in the politics he had inherited from his grandfather, which had then blended with the humanistic inheritance of his father to create beautiful literature within him, Lodovico, just as humanity and politics were blended in…†   (source)
  • Yes, your discourses, with their glittering show, Where ye for men twist shredded thought like paper, Are unrefreshing as the winds that blow The rustling leaves through chill autumnal vapor!†   (source)
  • I did not attempt too much in the form of preaching, as I could not have secured the attention of my hearers to any long-winded discourses, but they were interested in the Bible reading and simple instructions I drew from it, and their young voices joined sweetly in favorite hymns, which my wife sang from memory.†   (source)
  • She had been graciously pleased to approve of both of the discourses which he had already had the honour of preaching before her.†   (source)
  • To touch their congregations, they always show them how favorable religious opinions are to freedom and public tranquillity; and it is often difficult to ascertain from their discourses whether the principal object of religion is to procure eternal felicity in the other world, or prosperity in this.†   (source)
  • In his epistolary communication, as in his dialogues and discourses on the great question to which it related, Mr Dorrit surrounded the subject with flourishes, as writing-masters embellish copy-books and ciphering-books: where the titles of the elementary rules of arithmetic diverge into swans, eagles, griffins, and other calligraphic recreations, and where the capital letters go out of their minds and bodies into ecstasies of pen and ink.†   (source)
  • Will you come tomorrow, my young friend, and inquire of this good lady where I am to be found to deliver a discourse unto you, and will you come like the thirsty swallow upon the next day, and upon the day after that, and upon the day after that, and upon many pleasant days, to hear discourses?†   (source)
  • Indeed, how could it be otherwise when he was a part of her—when their discourses were as if carried on between the right and the left hands of the same body?†   (source)
  • …to be dead is to eat dandelions by the root; his own occupations, calling hackney-coaches, letting down carriage-steps, establishing means of transit between the two sides of a street in heavy rains, which he calls making the bridge of arts, crying discourses pronounced by the authorities in favor of the French people, cleaning out the cracks in the pavement; he has his own coinage, which is composed of all the little morsels of worked copper which are found on the public streets.†   (source)
  • ] I heard them inveigh against ambition and deceit, under whatever political opinions these vices might chance to lurk; but I learned from their discourses that men are not guilty in the eye of God for any opinions concerning political government which they may profess with sincerity, any more than they are for their mistakes in building a house or in driving a furrow.†   (source)
  • Whole families—old men, women, and children—cross rough passes and untrodden wilds, coming from a great distance, to join a camp-meeting, where they totally forget for several days and nights, in listening to these discourses, the cares of business and even the most urgent wants of the body.†   (source)
  • It is Sophy's birthday; and, on our road, Traddles discourses to me of the good fortune he has enjoyed.†   (source)
  • Honest Sir Pitt, however, did not feel the force of these discourses, as he always took his nap during sermon-time.†   (source)
  • He stated that his discourses to people were to be sometimes secular, and sometimes religious, but never dogmatic; and that his texts would be taken from all kinds of books.†   (source)
  • Knots of people, impelled by a fatal attraction, lurked outside any house in which he was known to be, listening for fragments of his discourses to the inmates; and, when he was rumoured to be coming down the stairs, often could not disperse so quickly but that he would be prematurely in among them, demanding their own arrears, and rooting them to the spot.†   (source)
  • She admired, beyond measure, his speech at the Quashimaboo-Aid Society; took an interest in his pamphlet on malt: was often affected, even to tears, by his discourses of an evening, and would say—"Oh, thank you, sir," with a sigh, and a look up to heaven, that made him occasionally condescend to shake hands with her.†   (source)
  • Before breakfast, a walk with Sir Pitt and his spud; after breakfast studies (such as they are) in the schoolroom; after schoolroom, reading and writing about lawyers, leases, coal-mines, canals, with Sir Pitt (whose secretary I am become); after dinner, Mr. Crawley's discourses on the baronet's backgammon; during both of which amusements my lady looks on with equal placidity.†   (source)
  • And if I say exile (and this may possibly be the penalty which you will affix), I must indeed be blinded by the love of life, if I am so irrational as to expect that when you, who are my own citizens, cannot endure my discourses and words, and have found them so grievous and odious that you will have no more of them, others are likely to endure me.†   (source)
  • When the viands and all the other entertainments that are usual in such banquets were finished, Oliverotto artfully began certain grave discourses, speaking of the greatness of Pope Alexander and his son Cesare, and of their enterprises, to which discourse Giovanni and others answered; but he rose at once, saying that such matters ought to be discussed in a more private place, and he betook himself to a chamber, whither Giovanni and the rest of the citizens went in after him.†   (source)
  • About the year 1734 there arrived among us from Ireland a young Presbyterian preacher, named Hemphill, who delivered with a good voice, and apparently extempore, most excellent discourses, which drew together considerable numbers of different persuasion, who join'd in admiring them.†   (source)
  • In the pump-room, one so newly arrived in Bath must be met with, and that building she had already found so favourable for the discovery of female excellence, and the completion of female intimacy, so admirably adapted for secret discourses and unlimited confidence, that she was most reasonably encouraged to expect another friend from within its walls.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXVI — AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE BARBARIANS Having carefully considered the subject of the above discourses, and wondering within myself whether the present times were propitious to a new prince, and whether there were elements that would give an opportunity to a wise and virtuous one to introduce a new order of things which would do honour to him and good to the people of this country, it appears to me that so many things concur to favour a new prince that I…†   (source)
  • Had he been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforc'd, their aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good citizens.†   (source)
  • That is what I had thought--and hoped…… But first of all, before our discourse ….†   (source)
  • Blore made a contribution to the discourse.†   (source)
  • " "We aren't in the same universe of discourse.†   (source)
  • Scarlett choked, for her discourse was at its end and she had nothing more to say.†   (source)
  • He, fortunately, understood English, recognized the discourse as that which Shaw had broadcasted the previous evening, realized the significance of what had happened, and sent a letter to the medical press about it.†   (source)
  • But if anybody mentioned a huske of hares he was all attention, and then he would thump his glass upon the table and discourse upon the marvels of this astonishing beast, declaring that you could never blow a menee for it, because the same hare could at one time be male and another time female, while it carried grease and croteyed and gnawed, which things no beast in the earth did except it.†   (source)
  • Harry has, we should say, genius enough to attempt the quest of true manhood instead of discoursing pitifully about his stupid Steppenwolf at every difficulty encountered.†   (source)
  • I should never be able to fulfil what is, I understand, the first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever.†   (source)
  • When off duty, Japp was an ardent botanist, and discoursed upon minute flowers possessed of unbelievably lengthy Latin names (somewhat strangely pronounced) with an enthusiasm even greater than that he gave to his cases.†   (source)
  • Only as the sermon proceeded did it become apparent to the congregation that, by a skillful oratorical device, Father Paneloux had launched at them, like a fisticuff, the gist of his whole discourse.†   (source)
  • Pray go on with your discourse.†   (source)
  • Merely to read the titles suggested innumerable schoolmasters, innumerable clergymen mounting their platforms and pulpits and holding forth with loquacity which far exceeded the hour usually alloted to such discourse on this one subject.†   (source)
  • "Her eyes," he murmured, "Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice; Handlest in thy discourse O! that her hand, In whose comparison all whites are ink Writing their own reproach; to whose soft seizure The cygnet's down is harsh…"†   (source)
  • Where was that clever fellow who had discoursed so pleasantly about the building up of the personality?†   (source)
  • I talke to them, and finde they want nothing to make them the happiest People in the world, but the knoledge that they are soe. most commonly when we are in the middest of our discourse one looks aboute her and spyes her Cow's goeing into the Corne and then away they all run, as if they had wing's at theire heels.†   (source)
  • …and piece it out with little digressions on the history of cripples--the dumbness of the Spartans, the fact that Oedipus was lame, that gods were often maimed, that Moses had faltering speech and Dmitri the Sorcerer a withered arm, Caesar and Mahomet epilepsy, Lord Nelson a pinned sleeve--but especially on the machine age and the kind of advantage that had to be taken of it; with me like a man-at-arms receiving a lecture from the learned signor who felt like passing out discourse.†   (source)
  • He whom I had never heard say two consecutive sentences, whom no discussion nor thesis could interest, whom I had scarcely credited with a single thought, discoursed now in his good-natured warm voice fluently and without a fault.†   (source)
  • For if PRIDE AND PREJUDICE matters, and MIDDLEMARCH and VILLETTE and WUTHERING HEIGHTS matter, then it matters far more than I can prove in an hour's discourse that women generally, and not merely the lonely aristocrat shut up in her country house among her folios and her flatterers, took to writing.†   (source)
  • Speech, discourse—those are nice republican things, I admit.†   (source)
  • Paul had been feeling uncomfortable during this discourse.†   (source)
  • I made the strange discovery that I had never imagined him as doing, you know, but as discoursing.†   (source)
  • The remainder of their discourse was on practical matters only.†   (source)
  • No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends.†   (source)
  • Oh, to be well informed, discoursing at ease on every subject that a lady started!†   (source)
  • And you needn't stop to discourse with sympathetic listeners on your way, either.†   (source)
  • Before he could launch into his heavy discourse she desperately got in, "Please!†   (source)
  • (She points to the door opposite): Alcandre and Lysimon are to discourse!†   (source)
  • Philip saw he was taking up the thread of his discourse, "I speak conventionally.†   (source)
  • Max Gottlieb had ever discoursed to Martin of "the jests of the gods."†   (source)
  • This was the sort of discourse that went on between them every day now.†   (source)
  • I forget the subject of his discourse now.†   (source)
  • I listen with instinctive pleasure to your nimble little discourse, young man.†   (source)
  • Having availed herself of it, she resumed her toast and her discourse together.†   (source)
  • Drums and fifes were discoursing martial music.†   (source)
  • A Pious Discourse delivered by the Reverend Jabez Branderham, in the Chapel of Gimmerden Sough.'†   (source)
  • The subject of their discourse had been keenly interesting to her.†   (source)
  • It is pearls and rubies to his discourse.†   (source)
  • We discourse freely without shame of one form of sensuality, and are silent about another.†   (source)
  • I listened to this discourse with the extremest agony.†   (source)
  • Even his usual discourse with the brothers could not take place that day.†   (source)
  • The life of the garden offered topics enough for such discourse as suited Clifford best.†   (source)
  • And while he fastened up his box he discoursed about the doctor's patients.†   (source)
  • Here consequently was an inexhaustible subject of discourse.†   (source)
  • Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it.†   (source)
  • When all were safely over, he moved up the opposite bank, and continued his discourse.†   (source)
  • The demonstrations of the enemy's immediate approach cut off all farther discourse.†   (source)
  • It is, however, unnecessary to our narrative to relate the erratic discourse that ensued.†   (source)
  • "And what effect did this discourse produce?" anxiously inquired Albert.†   (source)
  • He discoursed on the vanity of earthly things.†   (source)
  • When the discourse was at this point of animation, came up Mr. Frank Hawley.†   (source)
  • There was a little awkwardness at first in their discourse on another subject.†   (source)
  • She entered into a discourse on botany with the gentle Mrs. Dent.†   (source)
  • You gave me leave, at any time within a year, to renew the subject of our last discourse.'†   (source)
  • Left alone, Deerslayer and his friend resumed their discourse.†   (source)
  • Had you much discourse with Mabel, Pathfinder, as you came along in the canoe?†   (source)
  • It was in the bustle of the market, when no one could readily notice their discourse.†   (source)
  • I went the next Sabbath evening, and heard pretty much a repetition of the last discourse.†   (source)
  • "The discourse is over; farewell, gentlemen," said the count.†   (source)
  • But you have often seen him; and you have heard him discourse of Uncas, and of the wilderness?†   (source)
  • "Silence, maiden," answered the Templar; "such discourse now avails but little.†   (source)
  • Women love trifling discourse, though they like to have most of it to themselves.†   (source)
  • There was honey on the table, and it led him into a discourse about bees.†   (source)
  • For me, I felt at home in this sort of discourse.†   (source)
  • Then he would come and renew the old threadbare discourse about his forbearance and my ingratitude.†   (source)
  • From their discourse, I do not think the girl would much please my fancy.†   (source)
  • What a fine discourse Audry de Puyraveau delivered!†   (source)
  • The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer.†   (source)
  • A discourse was carried on between them in low measured tones for the space of ten minutes or more.†   (source)
  • Don't the clergymen's ladies discourse about Sunday-schools and who takes whose duty?†   (source)
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