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Accordingly, following the sound of the voice of this rough colloquist, who shouted repeatedly, we rode back in the dark several hundred yards, and, plunging into the stream, the channel of which was deep, we gained the other side, where we found three men standing ready to receive us.

What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant

I earnestly desired a fuller knowledge of the nature of my colloquist.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

"Did you know of Mr.B. 's illness?" asked the younger and more pronounced colloquist.

The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) Marion Harland 1876

I did not know the graduate to whom I made allusion, and in speaking of a remarkably brilliant colloquist of this city,

A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling. 1862

The whole party were delighted with the rich tones and the classic teachings of the gifted colloquist, except his equally gifted competitor for conversational laurels, who, notwithstanding his enforced admiration, sat uneasily under the prolonged disquisition, anxiously waiting for an opportunity to take his place in the picture.

Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853

Luckily, a pause in the discourse between the governess and her colloquist permitted a happy turn to the conversation.

Homeward Bound or, the Chase James Fenimore Cooper 1820