Conversing

Examples

• Seeing a soldier in blue on this log, I rode up to him, commenced conversing with him, and asked whose corps he belonged to. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• During the intervals of pain from this grievous disease, he spent many cheerful hours, conversing in the most agreeable and instructive manner. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• However, Mr. Tupman did not volunteer any such accommodation, and the friends walked on, conversing merrily. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• At the present moment, for example, I should be writing a treatise instead of conversing with you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Legree was there, busily conversing with the two drivers. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• They were conversing together in low tones, and gesticulating and pointing toward me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• You ain't in the habit of conversing with a deaf person, are you? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He looked suspiciously about him, for the men were conversing in groups, and he feared to be the subject of their talk. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I spent five days in conversing with many others of the ancient learned. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• While they are so conversing, a hackney-coach drives into the square, on the box of which vehicle a very tall hat makes itself manifest to the public. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, said Darcy, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The elder ladies were conversing together. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Miss Keeldar looked happy in conversing with him, and her joy seemed twofold--a joy of the past and present, of memory and of hope. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We were never tired of conversing with each other. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I did not wonder, when, without looking at me, he took a seat at the other side of the room, and began conversing with some of the ladies. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Victor Kint, and another gentleman, who, when I entered the room, was conversing with the old lady, and had his back towards the door. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• When I got back to my breakfast in the Boar's coffee-room, I found Mr. Pumblechook conversing with the landlord. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He began to wish to know more of her, and as a step towards conversing with her himself, attended to her conversation with others. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• At the same time the servant informed Isaac, that a Nazarene (so they termed Christians, while conversing among themselves) desired to speak with him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

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