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I’m talking, freed of all restraint a volubility which isn’t pleasant should you share the room with me. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
"Mr. Smithers!" cried Potts, with his usual volubility. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
The doctor rattled these symptoms off with great volubility. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
"To know what?" he interrupted, speaking with extreme volubility. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Even the darkey's volubility was stilled at the sight before them. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
With much volubility he explained the situation and his suspicions. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
Abby applied herself with renewed earnestness and volubility to the litany. From Wordnik.com. [Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir] Reference
She entered without curtseying, pale as a spectre, and said with volubility. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
His flow of spirits seemed to be checked at once, and his volubility ceased. From Wordnik.com. [The American Baron] Reference
Chaffering, quarrelling, joking, there seems to be no end to their volubility. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Old soldiers, hoarse with excitement, emulated the volubility of younger ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
She did not wish to run the gantlet of Mrs. Beaseley's volubility on this occasion. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
Her volubility suggested that she could not have withheld information if she had tried. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
And they chatted and chatted, and talked and laughed with such incessant volubility, that. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
She was afterwards surprised at her own volubility, being, as a rule, very shy with strangers. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
English hexameter was still another pet detestation which Landor nursed with great volubility. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
Then he discourses with great volubility of his long acquaintance with Mas'r Tom and Miss Maria. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
He was more slender and darker than his father, and lacking in his volubility and glad-handedness. From Wordnik.com. [Cubs of the Wolf] Reference
When Eumolpus had, with great volubility, poured out this flood of words, we came at last to Crotona. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
The passage was dark as she entered, and her mother's tones, talking with great volubility, struck her ear. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
For under cover of Mrs. Cherry's volubility, Arethusa had piloted the whole family safely to the automobile. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
He returned with a satchel full of papers, and began to read a long deposition with professional volubility. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Strange fits of silence came over her: her volubility had been the greatest objection we had to her hitherto. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
It was sufficient to name Kossuth to bring fire to the old man's eye and eulogistic volubility to his tongue. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference
Lacking the volubility common to his countrymen he had prepared heads of his speech jotted down on piece of notepaper. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914] Reference
More and more Hortense retreated to her wholesome companionship in face of the assaults of her mother's trying volubility. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
To this he paid no attention, but stamped round the room, continuing his argument with his usual vehemence and volubility. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
If we ask the way, we are graciously directed; but if we demand the least sacrifice, we must accept volubility for service. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
I expressed myself with the babbling volubility of one whose manners have been corrupted by occasional sojourns in the city. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Of the volubility and energy with which he delivered himself of all this, and much more, I cannot convey even the slightest idea. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
Those who had been awed by his grim silence in the days when he ruled above all law in Ascalon, were surprised now by his volubility. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Martin brought forward her daughter and presented her to Toni, who received an instant impression of size, teeth and volubility as Miss. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Soul] Reference
They thus passed the days, playing and talking together in their own speech, with all the liveliness and volubility of common children. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
And just as each man is smitten with madness after the manner of his kind, so Burroughs, the taciturn, was struck into amazing volubility. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
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