Example Sentences

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It was while he was teaching English at the University of Chicago that he met "Harriet," who kept alive the torch of culture by all-night literary conversaziones around a lakeshore bonfire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here and there, by way of variety, were invitations to parties, representing more pecuniary liabilities, incurred for new dresses, and for hospitalities acknowledged by dinners and conversaziones at her own house.

From Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time by Collins, Wilkie

I hardly knew where the line was passed, between quiet conversaziones and brilliant and courtly assemblies.

From Daisy in the Field by Warner, Susan

The mandolin player, dressed like a bull fighter, held musical conversaziones, interpreting the peasant songs of Andalusia.

From The Octopus : A story of California by Norris, Frank

Their scientific value was less considerable, since he chose rocks entirely with a view to their difficulty of handling or their attractiveness at conversaziones when done.

From Ann Veronica, a modern love story by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)