have been discoursing
- present perfect progressive of discourse.
Example Sentences
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She might almost have been discoursing on the probable death of a stranger.
From The Shadow of the East by Hull, E. M. (Edith Maude)
And you have been discoursing me most eloquent poetry; though not attuned to metre, rythmical withal, and full of fancy.
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Herbert, Henry William
The emotion of which we have been discoursing, painful though it be, is remunerative.
From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)
If I had had a little more 'gimp' and verve, I might have equalled the particular young gentleman of whom we have been discoursing.
From Bertram Cope's Year by Fuller, Henry Blake
"It was the picture of St. Remi, man, of which I have been discoursing."
From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
