Conversations

Examples

• Nor were the conversations of these gentlemen the only sounds that broke upon the ear. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I have passed many an afternoon very agreeably in these conversations. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• By personal experience, by intimate conversations, and by looking about, I think I am pretty well aware of what the influence of business upon journalism amounts to. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was the sight of Little Marlow, and my conversations with Martha, that led me to the plan I formed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The very difference of our dispositions gave zest to these conversations. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Their conversations, however, were not always on subjects so high as history or morals. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Had conversations between them been overheard, people would have said, How cold they are to each other! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• At times, she took no heed of what was passing before her, or no part in conversations where once, she would have been the loudest. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• A particular description of the Struldbrugs, with many conversations between the author and some eminent persons upon that subject. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• One or two of the men with him recorded his conversations and set down their impressions of him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In this manner I had several conversations with him. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• When we were settled at home again, Ada and I had many conversations with my guardian of which Richard was the theme. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The conversations with Edison that elicited these stories brought out some details as to peril that attends experimentation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Our conversations are not always confined to his own history and misfortunes. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I had never met Mr. Stanton up to that time, though we had held frequent conversations over the wires the year before, when I was in Tennessee. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• While commanding in West Tennessee we had occasionally held conversations over the wires, at night, when they were not being otherwise used. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He had often groaned over these in midnight conversations with Rebecca, although as a bachelor they had never given him any disquiet. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I soon found the advantage of this change in my manners; the conversations I engaged in went on more pleasantly. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I hope to have frequent conversations with you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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