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marked by a ready flow of speech- A soldier addressed her in Spanish too swiftly uttered, too voluble for her to translate.Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
- Still, while we were advancing, I spoke with extreme volubility, for my imagination was too full not to explode in words.Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- "There is no better," the voluble Vengeance protested in her shrill notes, "in France."Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
- Words of entreaty and prayer these, poured forth volubly and with earnestness and the mighty sanction of beauty.Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
- Dick had his Bible out and was praying volubly.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
- "Oh, what a clumsy thing I am," said she with feverish volubility; "I don't know my way.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- She spoke more forcibly and volubly than he had ever heard her, and she held his arm in her two hands.Henry James -- Washington Square
- Mrs. Highcamp hung with languid but unaffected interest upon the warm and impetuous volubility of her left-hand neighbor, Victor Lebrun.Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
- She burst volubly into tears.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- At this moment there was a flurry in the crowd and Uncle Morris Teitlebaum, the pawnbroker, appeared, gesticulating volubly, clinging to a policeman.Thomas Wolfe -- The Child by Tiger
- "No, no, no, no!" she answered, with a volubility and vehemence that was imitated from the French of the Canadas; "no good to tell Saltwater.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
- But Wolf Larsen seemed voluble, prone to speech as I had never seen him before.Jack London -- Sea Wolf
- Or if that is not yet quite true, if the male is still the voluble sex, it is certainly true that women no longer write novels solely.Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
- It brought the farmer, voluble, stuttering with gratitude.Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
- "She's got a way with her, has Susan," she went on quite volubly.Frances Hodgson Burnett -- The Secret Garden
- Volubly, troublously, the late clock sounded, coming in on the wake of Big Ben, with its lap full of trifles.Virginia Woolf -- Mrs. Dalloway
- Then, in sudden consternation as Milo caught his elbow, he whirled and offered voluble thanks.Grace MacGowan Cooke -- The Power and the Glory
- So situated, she was powerless to check Jo, who seemed possessed by a spirit of mischief, and talked away as volubly as the lady.Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
- "For minutes only," rejoined the more voluble messenger.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- He was wild, voluble, unreasoning—obsessed by the anticipated fulfilment of his dream.Zane Grey -- The Border Legion
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