It is this latter, in especial, which imparts to a work of art so much of that richness (to borrow from colloquy a forcible term) which we are too fond of confounding with the ideal.
He heard through the closed door Daisy's voice in colloquy with a deeper voice.
They were going backward and forward like flies, meeting for a moment in a quick buzz of colloquy and continuing after a momentary pause their impersonal and recurrent progress.
The colloquy became almost tender, until she said, "Isn't this gassy, and stifling?
Now I had listened to the whole colloquy with something like amazement, that two men so eminent should indulge in such high words on such a subject.
Without comprehending a word that was passing, I could see, by their significant glances, that the colloquy concerned me, and that it boded me no good.
I inquired what they were after, but no answer was vouchsafed, and he resumed his mysterious colloquy with the outsiders.
He was about to say something, but altered his mind; and so the colloquy ended.
Eleanor was taken out of it safely, and then for a moment left to herself; for Mr. Rhys was engaged in a colloquy with his boatman and another native who had come up.
Eleanor's eyes left contemplating the waters, and were busy for some time with the book which had lain in her lap until her colloquy with the captain.
During this colloquy the traveller had mounted his servant's horse, and now followed in the wake of the Persians.
Such was the crude notion of a colloquy conceived by the prelates.
Sidenote: Beza claims fair play] Two days later the colloquy was renewed.
The public character of the colloquy was abandoned.
The Colloquy of Poissy had proved, so far as the objects contemplated by its originators were concerned, a complete failure.
Isaac heard enough of the colloquyto guess the facts.
Girls, do not talk such nonsense," interrupted the Colonel's wife who was perturbed by the colloquy in the other room.
At a few minutes after four o’clock the colloquy ended, and Mr. Grant, after shaking hands very cordially with the lawyer, bade him farewell and went down stairs.
Previous to starting he had a shortcolloquy with Marion.
It is to be noted that the fisher who takes a share in the colloquy states that he prefers fishing in the river to fishing in the sea.
A more satisfactory fragment of fishing literature is to be found in the Colloquy of Ælfric, written (ad pucros linguae latinae locutionis exercendos) towards the end of the same century.
Every evening Betty would have a colloquywith the maid, which ran something like this: "What will ye be wantin' for breakfast, miss?
I passed on to the next driver, who had been listening to this colloquy with absorbed interest.
There was a perfect understanding between them by the time the colloquy was concluded.
Adasse directed some questions in the native tongue to Faiow, and there was quite a colloquy between them.
Our colloquy was at length interrupted by the entrance of Sir George, who shook me most cordially by the hand, and made the kindest inquiries about my health.
They met in Kildare Street Club, and very little colloquy satisfied them that they were right in their conjectures, each party being so eagerly ready to meet the views of the other.
A colloquy took place between him and Steve in subdued but earnest tones, the Doctor urging something, Steve replying, while the men waited, interested, but patient.
There was a colloquy between the two, inaudible, but none the less animated and interesting, the old woman urging something and the little girl arguing against it.
This officer rode up to the Hellenes with a body of cavalry, and sending forward an interpreter, stated that he desired a colloquy with the leaders.
After this achievement the barbarians came to a crest facing the mamelon, and Xenophon held a colloquy with them by means of an interpreter, to negotiate a truce, and demanded back the dead bodies.
The scholar will not forget the ancient story of the colloquy between Jupiter and a simple countryman.
