All 5 Uses of
fluent
in
Jane Eyre
- She came and shook hand with me when she heard that I was her governess; and as I led her in to breakfast, I addressed some phrases to her in her own tongue: she replied briefly at first, but after we were seated at the table, and she had examined me some ten minutes with her large hazel eyes, she suddenly commenced chattering fluently.†
Chpt 11
- I understood her very well, for I had been accustomed to the fluent tongue of Madame Pierrot.†
Chpt 11 *
- She played: her execution was brilliant; she sang: her voice was fine; she talked French apart to her mamma; and she talked it well, with fluency and with a good accent.†
Chpt 17
- I could talk a while when the evening commenced, but the first gush of vivacity and fluency gone, I was fain to sit on a stool at Diana's feet, to rest my head on her knee, and listen alternately to her and Mary, while they sounded thoroughly the topic on which I had but touched.†
Chpt 30
- My cousins, full of exhilaration, were so eloquent in narrative and comment, that their fluency covered St. John's taciturnity: he was sincerely glad to see his sisters; but in their glow of fervour and flow of joy he could not sympathise.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(fluent) able to easily comprehend and express; or expressed smoothly -- especially in a foreign language