Poems, biographies, dramas, sermons, novels, satires, magazine articles, newspaper leaders, and theological works were dashed off by his facile pen; and, according to Hogg, the Ettrick shepherd, he was great in conversation.

No conversation is allowed among the crew at their duty.

His scientific discoveries, his cause invested with romantic interest, his courtly manners, his agreeable conversation, and his reputation for wisdom and wit, made him an immediate favorite among all classes with whom he came in contact.

His conversation is said to have been as enchanting as it was instructive.

At no time of his life, however, was Franklin a great speaker, except in conversation, but his mind was vigorous to the end.

I do not read that he was brilliant in conversation, although he had a keen relish for the charms of society, or that he was in any sense learned or original.

He was superior to Hamilton in personal popularity and bewitching conversation; his equal in grace of manner, in forensic eloquence and legal reputation, but his inferior in comprehensive intellect and force of character.

It was he who defeated by his quiet influence the political aspirations of Burr, when Burr was the most popular man in the country,a great wire-puller, a prince of politicians, a great organizer of political forces, like Van Buren and Thurlow Weed,whose eloquent conversation and fascinating manner few men could resist, to say nothing of women.

It burned in every speech they made, and in every conversation in which they took part.

After the separation he supported himself with great difficulty, but retained his elegant manner and fascinating conversation, until he died in the house of a lady friend in 1836, and was buried at Princeton by the side of his father and grandfather.

He, through an inexplicable scruple, a strange delicacy of which he was not himself conscious, did not wish to renew the conversation, and to demand the answer which he expecteda promise of faith in him and of submission.

Ben looked depressed, fixed his eyes on his plate, and took very little part in the conversation.

The evening, however, he spent in the public room of the inn, where he had a chance to listen to the conversation of a motley crowd, some of them native and residents, others strangers who had been drawn to Centerville by the oil discoveries.

"Mr. Jackson, I think it won't be worth while to continue our conversation.

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Mr. Wyeth, and Dr. Small, professor of mathematics at the college, were in the habit of dining with the governor at stated times, for the purpose of conversation.

" The truth of this remark was abundantly evident to Clerambault in a long conversation that he had with Froment the next day.

and she knows perhaps three English words, so our conversation is limited.

No. 1 gets up to go, shakes hands with me in a detached way, and departs, and the same conversation begins again with the new-comers, until they, in their turn, leave when someone else comes in.

This conversation so exhausted us that we fell very sound asleep, and knew nothing till we arrived at the station where we had to get out and change into the ferry-boat.

Bright and merry are hardly the adjectives I should have applied to my soulful countenance and brilliant conversation; but no matter.

She liked him for several reasons,for his non-interference in discussions about her affairs, for a certain quiet consideration, just a shade more friendly than deference, which he showed for her slightest wishes, and chiefly, perhaps, for his conversation and perfectly even temper.

"About four weeks since I had a conversation with Mr. Porter, a respectable citizen of Morgan county of this state, of about fifty years of age.

In conversation about picking cotton, he said, 'some hands cannot get the sleight of it.

He was smiling widely again as he pressed "Enter" and activated the asteroid's propulsion system. 14: The Shield of St. George THE CONVERSATION was very quiet, but the microphone picked it up.