For himself he is content to start from a bold and clear statement of his own opinion, and proceeds buoyantly and discursively to engage and scatter his enemies as they turn up, without the least fear of being able to fight his way back to his original base.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
Among them was Colonel Milton Caukins, tax collector and assistant deputy sheriff who, never quite at ease in the presence of his long-tongued wife, expanded discursively so soon as he found himself in the office of The Greenbush.
"Flamsted quarries"
Mary E. Waller
Its origin and history is this: finding winter evenings in the country wearisome to my homeflock, I used to read to them profusely and discursively.
"My Life as an Author"
Martin Farquhar Tupper