conversers

• Here no man lies awake in the night for vexation that he missed recollecting the last line of a Latin epigram till the moment of application was lost; nor any lady changes colour with trepidation at the severity visible in her husband's countenance when the chickens are over-roasted, or the ice-creams melt with the room's excessive heat Among the noble Senators of Venice, meantime, many good scholars, many Belles Lettres conversers, and what is more valuable, many thinking men, may be found, and found hourly, who employ their powers wholly in care for the state; and make their pleasure, like true patriots, out of her felicity_. —  Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I
• His perfect command over his great mental resources, the terseness and expressiveness of his language and the moral earnestness as well as intellectual force of his delivery, made him one of the most striking of all argumentative conversers: and he was full of anecdote, a hearty laugher, and, when with people whom he liked, a most lively and amusing companion. —  Autobiography
• The great conversers of literature are wrongly called so. —  Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out
• Ready conversers are people who give their thought to others in abundance; who make others feel a familiar heartbeat. —  Conversation What to Say and How to Say it
• Quite as noticeable an element in French conversation is the attitude of the conversers to their subject. —  Conversation What to Say and How to Say it

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