"Discursive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had the discursive mind of James wandered from the position which it occupied at the epoch of Maximilian de Bethune's ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... him of all hope of a large sum of money he considered himself entitled to. He at once resolved to abandon his own impossible country and settle in Spain. Accompanied by his wife and his two young daughters, he set out from Calais with his carriage, his horse, his man-servant, and his monkey. A discursive, disorderly, delightful book is the record of his journey through France into Catalonia, of his visit to Montserrat, which takes up the larger part of it, of the abandonment of his proposed settlement in Spain, and of his safe return with ...
— Impressions And Comments • Havelock Ellis
... And then, with the discursive talent of persons of her description, she got once more afloat in her account of domestic affairs, and left this delicate ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... authors of detestable pseudo-Meredithian and decayed Paterese. His narrative style is concise and brisk. His book may undoubtedly best be compared among English classics with Whiggism in its Relations to Literature, although it is less discursive and does not possess the personal element of that vivacious piece of polemic. In this recurrence of Mr. Strachey to a pellucid stream of prose we see an argument against his own theory of revolt. The procedure of the arts, the mechanical tricks of the trade, do they really improve ...
— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse
... hindrance to my volubility, I am glad to say; a back is not very inspiring or expressive, but Ruth can tell me when you look bored if I wax too discursive." ...
— Other Things Being Equal • Emma Wolf
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