Discourses

Examples

• Revived by soup, Twemlow discourses mildly of the Court Circular with Boots and Brewer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This will immediately cut off all loose discourses and declamations, and reduce us to something precise and exact on the present subject. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He added, that he had heard too much upon the subject of war, both in this and some former discourses. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Then he took a skull and held it in his hand, and looked reflectively upon it, after the manner of the grave-digger when he discourses of Yorick. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We gather up the fragments of His discourses, but neither do they represent Him as He truly was. Plato. The Republic.
• Yes, Socrates, said Glaucon, and the whole of life is the only limit which wise men assign to the hearing of such discourses. Plato. The Republic.
• This was my sincere endeavour in those many discourses I had with that monarch, although it unfortunately failed of success. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• She had been graciously pleased to approve of both of the discourses which he had already had the honour of preaching before her. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• In his discourses he never called himself the Buddha. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Honest Sir Pitt, however, did not feel the force of these discourses, as he always took his nap during sermon-time. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He foreshadowed the continuation of this new war communism into the peace period in discourses of great fire and beauty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There were discourses--Robespierre delivered the chief one--but apparently no worship. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is Sophy's birthday; and, on our road, Traddles discourses to me of the good fortune he has enjoyed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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