Sample Sentences forvoluble (auto-selected)
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Tortoise was very happy and voluble as he flew among the birds, and he was soon chosen as the man to speak for the party because he was a great orator.† (source)
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When I'm invited for dinner (as I am, often, when I'm in town) it's all very pleasant and light, voluble even, intimate and subtle while not at all personal; I'm treated like a family member (almost), welcome to turn up when I want; I've been able to coax Mrs. Barbour out of the apartment a bit, we've had some pleasant afternoons out, lunch at the Pierre and an auction or two; and Toddy, without being impolitic in the least, has even managed to let casually and almost accidentally drop the name of a very good doctor, with no suggestion whatever that I might possibly need such a thing.† (source)
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Then came voices-the conductor's, deferential, apologetic; and a woman's, insistent and voluble.† (source)
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"She's got a way with her, has Susan," she went on quite volubly.† (source)
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Had Lydia and her mother known the substance of her conference with her father, their indignation would hardly have found expression in their united volubility.† (source)
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So situated, she was powerless to check Jo, who seemed possessed by a spirit of mischief, and talked away as volubly as the lady.† (source)
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"For minutes only," rejoined the more voluble messenger.† (source)
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For an outwardly silent man, his writing reflected an unexpected volubility.† (source)
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For a little while after their prayer, in relief, Mary had talked quite volubly of matters largely irrelevant to the event; she had even made little jokes and had even laughed at them, without more than a small undertone of hysteria; and in all this, Hannah had thought it best (and, for that matter, the only thing possible), to follow suit; but that soon faded away; nor was it to return; now they merely sat in quietness, each on her side of the kitchen table, their eyes cast away from each other, drinking tea for which they had no desire.† (source)
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As Harry set down the empty goblets he was carrying, Bill pulled the door behind him closed, shutting out the still-voluble voices of the others, who were continuing to celebrate even in Lupin's absence.† (source)
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The goodman talked with a rustic volubility, in which there was nothing alarming.† (source)
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CATHLEEN Volubly.† (source)
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I had never liked Henry James before I read that novel, had never expected to, and had considered him one of those irritatingly voluble novelists who used the language as if he hated English-speaking people.† (source)
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The effect of the wine upon Victor was to change his accustomed volubility into silence.† (source)
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A member of Pakistan's Punjabi majority, he had never been to the mountains before and rattled volubly on, relieved that these men who lived at the edge of the known world spoke Urdu in addition to their native tongues.† (source)
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They were learning to swear in voluble English; they were learning to pick up cigar stumps and smoke them, to pass hours of their time gambling with pennies and dice and cigarette cards; they were learning the location of all the houses of prostitution on the "Levee," and the names of the "madames" who kept them, and the days when they gave their state banquets, which the police captains and the big politicians all attended.† (source)
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