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"It was the picture of St. Remi, man, of which I have been discoursing."

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

What we have been discoursing of will be best forgotten.

From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

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)

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)

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