"Converser" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... help giving Mrs. Brash a longer look, so after it I could as little resist sounding my converser. "You'll ...
— The Beldonald Holbein • Henry James
... nationality of my companion, I enjoyed his company very much. He talked to me, not as a man to a boy, but as an elder to a younger man; paid me the courtesy of asking my opinion and listening to my answers; and, by all the little arts of the practised converser, made me feel on good terms with myself and the world. Yankee or Frenchman, my actor was a very jolly fellow; and I only wished that he would tell me a little ...
— Prime Ministers and Some Others - A Book of Reminiscences • George W. E. Russell
... thought, one need not say, "has been;" and to recall his brilliant talk that day gives me hesitation over the past tense of this reminiscence. On the whole, with the exception of Doctor Holmes, I think I should call Professor Park the best converser—at least among eminent men—whom ...
— McClure's Magazine, January, 1896, Vol. VI. No. 2 • Various |
