"What you going to do with the filly while we're out on the beef hunt?" Chuck queried, wishing to keep the conversation general.

It was a favourite device of the Emperor's, when he was in the wrong upon one point, to turn the conversation round so as to get upon some other one on which he was in the right.

A dictionary, a conversation manual, and an English grammar for French students were then obtained; and whenever he felt that he needed a little relaxation, he took up one or another of these books and read them, as he put it to me, 'from a philosophical point of view.'

The constant round of dinner-parties, conversation-parties, and assemblies of intellect and wealth, though at first full of attraction to one of her disposition, had begun to lose its charm.

Twenty years afterward, in 1823, Beethoven wrote in one of those conversation-books which his deafness compelled him to use: "I was well beloved of her, more than ever her husband was loved.

Reynolds, in his Conversation-piece, celebrated when in the Strawberry Collection, and representing Selwyn leaning on a chair, Gilly Williams, crayon in hand, and Dick Edgecumbe by his side, has caught the pseudo-solemn expression of his face admirably.

When the party is too small, conversation flags, and a general air of desolation pervades the table.

Even Van Hee was willing to let the conversation drift back to flowers and birds.

Then Marianne, anxious at seeing the conversation drop, began, questioning Valentine, while Gervais at last slyly crept to her knees.

Ethel Cotton conversation course.

One day several years ago, when Mr. Lowes Dickinson's statement that he had found no conversation andworse stillno conversationalists in America was fresh in our outraged minds, I happened to meet an English woman who had spent approximately the same amount of time in our country as had Mr. Lowes Dickinson.

How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles!

Tilly's bump of good fortune being extraordinarily well developed, the baby usually managed to come out from the siege unharmed, to be soothed and comforted in Tilly's own peculiar fashion; her most common method of amusement being to reproduce for its entertainment scraps of conversation current in the house, with all the sense left out of them, and all the nouns changed to the plural number, as"Did its mothers make it up a beds then!

" So much of the dinner-conversation dwelt upon what was supposed to be interesting to me, and a part of my profession.

His voice was sweet, his conversation elegant; and capable of entertaining upon various subjects.

The combat is suspended by the arrival of night-time; and a conversation ensues between the warriors, which is furiously interrupted by Agrican's discovery of his rival, and the latter's refusal to renounce his love.

DIALOGUE, m., conversation entre plusieurs personnes.

It may be proper, in this place, to mention another general rule laid down by Ford for Johnson's future conduct: "You will make your way the more easily in the world, as you are contented to dispute no man's claim to conversation excellence: they will, therefore, more willingly allow your pretensions as a writer."

If all who love one another were of the same opinion, living would be monotonous, and conversation flabby.

Let a rich stream of conversation flow.'" Ross mentally dug within himself for sources of rich streams of conversation.

" They had not very long to wait; for soon after this conversation footsteps were heard in the garden, and Mr. Ellis entered, followed by the clergyman.

On the picture's reverse the poem records a conversation galante. 'Beloved, what are you doing With a golden orange in your hand?' So said the moon-faced one Placing a dot On the bright circles Painted in the house.

CONVERSATION ON HISTORY.

'I am greatly mistaken,' replied Lord Cadurcis, who saw no obstacles to his hopes in their conversation hitherto, 'if, on the contrary, our union would not prove far from disagreeable to your mother, Venetia; I will say our mother, for indeed to me she has been one.' 'Plantagenet,' said Venetia, in a very earnest tone, 'I love you very much; but, if you love me, press me on this subject no more at present.

I wonder if it is permitted to try a cigar at these conversation-onies, gentlemen?" "I believe it is, sir," returned Pindar, coolly.