29 Verbs to Use for the Word converse

Ah, it is a touching thing, to see some great philanthropist come forward, at the call of Duty and his Publisher (perhaps also quickened by the hollow sound emitted by his treasure-box), and compress himself into the absurdly small compass of a few pages 18mo., in order to afford himself the exalted pleasure of holding simple and godly converse with children at large!

On one occasion Gaius declared he was enjoying converse with the Moon Goddess, and when he asked Vitellius if he could see the goddess with him, the other kept his eyes fixed on the ground, as if overcome by amazement.

The Senator, as if conscious that his argument on this point had proved too much, and of course had proven the converse of what he wished to establish, concluded this part by saying, that if slavery is abolished, the act ought to be confined to the city alone.

And here may find its place this converse between the solitary old man and the young traveller.

"Was it a log-line, or a bow-line, or a cod-line, or a bit of the equator, eh?" The old salt deigned no reply to this passing sally, but continued his converse with Singleton.

Beauchene's unexpected arrival on the scene had disagreeably interrupted their private converse.

Ariel just then presented himself before his master, to give an account of the tempest, and how he had disposed of the ship's company; and, though the spirits were always invisible to Miranda, Prospero did not choose she should hear him holding converse (as would seem to her) with the empty air.

"I overheard some converse about your Lordship, a hint that some knave gave thee a slight wound.

Fix'd and intent on his Irene's charms, He envies none the converse of Aspasia.

Thus the nurse epitomised the converse of her charges.

We know one man in a moment, another only after years of intimacy, while others in regard to the same individuals might experience the converse.

With what heart-stirring mirth, and yet with what strangely deeper feeling of the infinite variety of human nature, do we follow their converse throughout!

We read in a poem of the fourteenth century, entitled The vow on the heron, "In the season when summer is verging upon its decline, and the gay birds are forgetting their sweet converse on the trees, now despoiled of their verdure, Robert seeks for consolation in the pleasures of fowling, for he cannot forget the gentle land of France, the glorious country whence he is an exile.

Among other charges against him were the following, which, extraordinary as they are, he does not seem to have denied: "That he hath very frequent and familiar converse with angels.

[Sidenote: King Arthur comes to Sir Tristram's pavilion] Now, as Sir Launcelot and Sir Tristram sat in the pavilion of Sir Tristram making pleasant converse together, there suddenly entered an esquire to where they were sitting.

He needs no converse nor companionship, In cold starlight, whence thou can not come, The undelivered tidings in his breast, Will not let him rest.

He pointed out quite clearly the line of conduct Ferdinando should pursuethe direct converse of the position he had taken up.

But we must resist the converse of these conditions, the transference of this richness in variety and contrasts into the domain of politics.

Don Manuel eyes me strangely; the best is, he never saw me yet but at a distance: My brother's jealousy (who ne'er intended I should be his) restrained our nearer converse.

I rang the bell and ordered tea, during and after which we shared that social converse which is the true zest of life, and in which I am persuaded none but virtuous minds can participate.

To the truism, that we can only judge of other minds by a knowledge of our own, we may add its converse as especially true.

May he celestial joys rehearse, And thought to thought with me converse!"

X. If you observe that your opponent designedly returns a negative answer to the questions which, for the sake of your proposition, you want him to answer in the affirmative, you must ask the converse of the proposition, as though it were that which you were anxious to see affirmed; or, at any rate, you may give him his choice of both, so that he may not perceive which of them you are asking him to affirm.

1. Quoy qu'il soit bon de s'épargner vn trop grand soing de pratiquer vne ciuilité affectée, il faut pourtant estre exact à en obseruer ce qui est necessaire & auantageux pour faire paroistre une belle éducation, & ce qui ne se peut obmettre sans choquer ceux auec qui l'on converse.

One longs to challenge converse with the male figure, with the unfinished Sphinx-like face, who is stretched there at his harmonious length, like an ancient river-god without his urn.

29 Verbs to Use for the Word  converse