Perhaps the cat's sudden communicativeness had to do with him being on his world of origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acorna's Rebels]

Lindsay's communicativeness seemed to contract a little, as at the touch of a finger light but cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference

“He made about nine thousand dollars,” Lily pursued, in the same tone of eager communicativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of Mirth] Reference

Such extra communicativeness could give you no pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villette] Reference

Mostly they've retreated into non-communicativeness, and worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israel Palestine Blogs] Reference

Possibly this accounted in some measure for his communicativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories] Reference

Gillies, with the natural communicativeness of youth, confessed to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference

Andersonville did not improve either his temper or his communicativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andersonville — Volume 3] Reference

The Emperor's burgundy, no doubt, had warmed his spirit to communicativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange] Reference

Contrast your luxurious communicativeness with the case of the lovers of old-time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing Roads and Other Essays] Reference

But I do blame her for giving way to what was in the end a desire for communicativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good Soldier] Reference

He was a little dashed by the stranger's non-communicativeness, but he soon broke out again.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays] Reference

But now the door opened and deferred any satisfaction of Mr. Vandernoodt's communicativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Deronda] Reference

This virtue of communicativeness, of sociabilite, Holbach carried into all the relations of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baron d'Holbach]

"He made about nine thousand dollars," Lily pursued, in the same tone of eager communicativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [House of Mirth] Reference

All the rest show an oblivion or indifference most unlike the genial communicativeness of Cicero.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

Of the amazing communicativeness of Frenchwomen on all subjects, our young hero had as yet no conception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 09] Reference

He wielded it now, and Mrs. Agar shuffled before it, her eyes glittering with suppressed communicativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [From One Generation to Another] Reference

"I don't suppose Pateley ever says more than he means to say, with all his air of hearty communicativeness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arbiter A Novel] Reference

Sam told him all about himself, as he had told Sykes, expecting an equal amount of communicativeness in return.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gilpins and their Fortunes A Story of Early Days in Australia] Reference

Never mind that – I didn't mean to speak of it; and Dan stopped short in his unusual fit of communicativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys] Reference

There was no communicativeness in even what little fun there was going, and the day was a long and a tedious one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by American Authors, Volume 5] Reference

Mr. Gardiner, whose manners were easy and pleasant, encouraged her communicativeness by his questions and remarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pride and Prejudice]

As soon as the conversation commenced he displayed a communicativeness and good-will which he preserved while it lasted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire]

What is noteworthy in Lavater's record, indeed, is Goethe's communicativeness and spontaneity in all that concerned himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Goethe] Reference

The driver, too, was quite talkative, and Oscar being the only outside passenger, enjoyed the full benefit of his communicativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar The Boy Who Had His Own Way] Reference

To embody that last trait - communicativeness - we not only need a desire to connect but also the skills and self-assurance to do so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Violinist.com] Reference

If this manly reserve of Horatio be true to Nature, not less so are the communicativeness of Hamlet, and his tendency to soliloquize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books First Series] Reference

All the pretty picture of the soft puppy, instinct with communicativeness, bursting with tenderness of petition, was veiled to his vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry of the Islands] Reference

The incident appeared to me very characteristic, but I refrained from all audible comments, lest I should inadvertently check his communicativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia] Reference

But in spite of this powerful recommendation we met with none of the friendly cordiality and communicativeness which I had found among the Bashkirs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia] Reference

But apple brandy is a potent tongue-loosener, and the unwonted communicativeness of the stolid and silent mountaineers attested its strength in this regard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools] Reference

His communicativeness impressed itself also upon other casual visitors, because his first appearance sometimes gave them the opposite suggestion of reserve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Adam Smith]

But apple - brandy is a potent tongue-loosener, and the unwonted communicativeness of the stolid and silent mountaineers attested its strength in this regard.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Tennessee mountains,] Reference

Once let the isolating wall which shuts off the Romany from the 'Gorgio' be broken through, and the communicativeness of the Romany temperament begins to show itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of George Borrow]

If, in the first instance, the cause of too much communicativeness was an over-proneness to talk; its cause in this case is a certain conceit that teases one into talking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference

(if it is understandable to non-scientists) and presentation (communicativeness with the public).    From Wordnik.com.  [SofiaEcho RSS feed] Reference