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At debutante balls and bar mitzvahs, on campuses and at country-club dances, Dixieland bands are discoursing anew on an old theme that Eddie Condon kept alive.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the parable from which we are discoursing, the sinful man was the rich man, and the child of God was the beggar.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)

The vampires of which we are discoursing are very different from all those just mentioned.

From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry

My sweetest Eugenie," I cried, "what is all this about which you are discoursing?

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Poe, Edgar Allan

You suppose at first that they are discoursing of tallow candles, though you cannot imagine by what impertinence they address you, that are no tallow-chandler, upon such painful subjects.

From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas