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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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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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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"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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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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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 goodman talked with a rustic volubility, in which there was nothing alarming.† (source)
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CATHLEEN Volubly.† (source)
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She grew voluble.† (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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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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And then, for the first time since Rieux had made his acquaintance, he became quite voluble.† (source)
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