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As you have pointed out, bullsh*t may be put to use as fertilizer, and a minimal conversancy with the lingo of astrology may facilitate the seduction of not so intelligent women.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Evolutionary Astrology” 2010

As you have pointed out, bullsh*t may be put to use as fertilizer, and a minimal conversancy with the lingo of astrology may facilitate the seduction of not so intelligent women.neurodocQuote

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Evolutionary Astrology” 2010

For besides that I hope my speculations may, in virtue of my continual conversancy with nature, have a value beyond the pretensions of my wit, they will serve in the meantime for wayside inns, in which the mind may rest and refresh itself on its journey to more certain conclusions.

The Great Instauration 2005

For besides that I hope my speculations may, in virtue of my continual conversancy with nature, have a value beyond the pretensions of my wit, they will serve in the meantime for wayside inns, in which the mind may rest and refresh itself on its journey to more certain conclusions.

The Great Instauration 2005

It matters not though the Bill may have been deliberately drawn up by the authority deemed the best qualified, with all appliances and means to boot; or by a select commission, chosen for their conversancy with the subject, and having employed years in considering and digesting the particular measure; it cannot be passed, because the House of Commons will not forego the precious privilege of tinkering it with their clumsy hands.

Representative Government 2002

That his conversancy with French extended from Froissart downwards, through Rabelais 'succulent jargon as well as Moliere's racy idiom, is patent in nearly all he wrote; and that he was capable of using this vocabulary aptly is sufficiently shown in the best and simplest of his works.

Balzac Frederick Lawton

That his conversancy with French extended from Froissart downwards, through Rabelais 'succulent jargon as well as Moliere's racy idiom, is patent in nearly all he wrote; and that he was capable of using this vocabulary aptly is sufficiently shown in the best and simplest of his works.

Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910

His habitual conversancy with the world in its strangest varieties and with the secret history of character, gives him a shrewd estimate of the human heart.

Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective 1874

Page 125 habits and ascetic life, although there were times in which his severe temper relaxed into an approach to companionable enjoyment, and then his intercourse with the few who had access to him was marked by a sarcastic humor and keen ridicule of human action which showed some grudge against the world, and, at the same time, denoted conversancy with mankind and by no means

Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's, 1872

It may be, on the contrary, that Martha Savory's quickness of understanding and of feeling, the readiness with which she apprehended the sentiments and condition of others, her conversancy with the allurements of city life, and the perils of unbelief from which she had been rescued, fitted her in a peculiar degree to be her husband's helper in the ministry, especially in their travels on the Continent.

Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley Yeardley, John, 1786-1858 1860