Meanings of familiar discourse in English

She was probing her own dark places, reworking a familiar discourse with herself.

I entered into familiar discourse with him, and we were soon much knit to one another.

They make use of certain words and phrases, in familiar discourse; and of others in studied compositions.

Until this period of the evening, the duties of hospitality and the observances of religion had prevented familiar discourse.

His air was that of a man who has turned from business to friendly and familiar discourse with a sense of relief.

Genealogies, in fact, are awkward things, and should be eschewed by gentlemen in familiar discourse, as tending much less towards edification than offence.

Throughout this familiar discourse Pierre could feel that Francois was growing impassioned, quivering at thought of the vast horizon which the master opened up.

Try the experiment, if it may be done without irreverence: read His familiar discourses in the shadow of agnosticism.

Such ideas, always present in his imagination, filled his familiar discourses with notions of a new world, and the conversion of infidels.