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  • CATHLEEN Volubly.†   (source)
  • She grew voluble.†   (source)
  • "Santos will see you now," said the voluble one."†   (source)
  • Stone had found a volubility, a combativeness and forcefulness, in his writing that he didn't show in his speech.†   (source)
  • Then on a sudden inspiration, he once more laid hold of the bridle and began to speak volubly in a hoarse undertone: "W'y, name o' God, Mr. Stoddard!†   (source)
  • And it was ironic to note that one of my most voluble supporters at the meeting was Iris Glover, the alleged root doctor and mistress of darkness whom I once had identified as the greatest threat to my survival on the island.†   (source)
  • And then, for the first time since Rieux had made his acquaintance, he became quite voluble.†   (source)
  • Then came voices-the conductor's, deferential, apologetic; and a woman's, insistent and voluble.†   (source)
  • The Englishman broke into voluble and perfect Italian.†   (source)
  • She answered volubly and eagerly, "And why not, indeed?†   (source)
  • The woman was excited, voluble.†   (source)
  • "Ah, we call it the Beast Glatisant, you know," replied the monarch, assuming a learned air and beginning to speak quite volubly.†   (source)
  • But the old man came to the door and said volubly, "There is no end to the money spent in this house!"†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • At this moment there was a flurry in the crowd and Uncle Morris Teitlebaum, the pawnbroker, appeared, gesticulating volubly, clinging to a policeman.†   (source)
  • The Home Office expert gave his evidence; the maid Jessie poured out a flood of voluble information, most of which was rejected, but which certainly strengthened the case against the prisoner.†   (source)
  • That is, Ellen also stopped coming to the house, stopped breaking the carriage's weekly ritual of store to store where, without getting out, Ellen bade merchant and clerk fetch out to her the cloth and the meagre fripperies and baubles which they carried and which they knew even better than she that she would not buy but instead would merely finger and handle and disarrange and then reject, all in that flow of bright pettish volubility.†   (source)
  • She burst volubly into tears.†   (source)
  • Loiterers, late-comers, elfin and voluble, they squatted or sprawled in the dazzling sun, or propped idle, wagging heads against the blank wall of the strict cube which was the cheder.†   (source)
  • When she shopped (there were twenty stores in Jefferson now) she unbent without even getting out of the carriage, gracious and assured and talking the most complete nonsense, voluble, speaking her bright set meaningless phrases out of the part which she had written for herself, of the duchess peripatetic with property soups and medicines among a soilless and uncompelled peasantry—a woman who, if she had had the fortitude to bear sorrow and trouble, might have risen to actual stardom in…†   (source)
  • Stop itl" From outside the door, the bolder ones in the crowd of neighbors that jammed the hallway had overflowed into the kitchen and were stationing themselves silently or volubly along the walls.†   (source)
  • He could visualize the scene-the large, voluble Italian, and the snub direct administered by the gentleman's gentleman.†   (source)
  • Then, from one day to another, he became sociable again, talked volubly about the plague, asking everyone for his views on it, and mingled in the crowd with evident pleasure.†   (source)
  • Often twice and sometimes three times a week the two of them came to town and into the house—the foolish unreal voluble preserved woman now six years absent from the world—the woman who had quitted home and kin on a flood of tears and in a shadowy miasmic region something like the bitter purlieus of Styx had produced two children and then rose like the swamp-hatched butterfly, unimpeded by weight of stomach and all the heavy organs of suffering and experience, into a perennial bright…†   (source)
  • A voluble exposition followed.†   (source)
  • And Ellen didn't even know where he had gone, believing blandly and volubly that he had gone to Memphis or maybe even to Saint Louis on business, and Henry and Judith not even caring that much, and only he, Bon, to know where Sutpen had gone, saying to himself Of course; be wasn't sure, he had to go there to make sure, telling himself that loud now, loud and fast too so he would not, could not, hear the thinking, the But if he suspected, why not have told me?†   (source)
  • "Why don't we got married?" she inquired, thinking of the voluble promise he had made.†   (source)
  • He was tall, vigorous, sandy-haired, freckled, genial and voluble.†   (source)
  • A soldier addressed her in Spanish too swiftly uttered, too voluble for her to translate.†   (source)
  • After the mortal silence of his long imprisonment Zeena's volubility was music in his ears.†   (source)
  • "She's got a way with her, has Susan," she went on quite volubly.†   (source)
  • Philip in his voluble anger stopped suddenly at the sound of her voice.†   (source)
  • They talked volubly and with little reserve.†   (source)
  • She always besieged the bench with voluble excuses, explanations, apologies and prayers.†   (source)
  • He was wild, voluble, unreasoning—obsessed by the anticipated fulfilment of his dream.†   (source)
  • But Wolf Larsen seemed voluble, prone to speech as I had never seen him before.†   (source)
  • He was a jocose, voluble fellow, probably glad now to hear the sound of his own voice.†   (source)
  • Dick had his Bible out and was praying volubly.†   (source)
  • In the darkness of the hallway Jimmie discerned a knot of women talking volubly.†   (source)
  • The effect of the wine upon Victor was to change his accustomed volubility into silence.†   (source)
  • This voluble colonel had given him new ideas.†   (source)
  • He spoke volubly, but Mrs. Kearney said curtly at intervals: "She won't go on.†   (source)
  • It was the old women who were voluble, loud in expression of their feelings.†   (source)
  • "There is no better," the voluble Vengeance protested in her shrill notes, "in France."†   (source)
  • And they walked off together, Passepartout chatting volubly as they went along.†   (source)
  • The goodman talked with a rustic volubility, in which there was nothing alarming.†   (source)
  • When he ceased she became brisk again in an instant, and rattled away with surprising volubility.†   (source)
  • It brought the farmer, voluble, stuttering with gratitude.†   (source)
  • 'Should I ever meet you there?' demanded the boy, speaking with unusual wildness and volubility.†   (source)
  • "Oh, what a clumsy thing I am," said she with feverish volubility; "I don't know my way.†   (source)
  • As soon as his voice could carry he cursed him volubly.†   (source)
  • Sambo was a full black, of great size, very lively, voluble, and full of trick and grimace.†   (source)
  • —his French was of this sort—voluble, as we have said, but not remarkable for grammar.†   (source)
  • A very little encouragement would set that worthy woman to talk volubly and pour out all within her.†   (source)
  • "Laws, Missis," said Jane, volubly, "Mrs.†   (source)
  • During the pause that ensued he surveyed me with indignation, while I made supernatural efforts of memory, in which I was hindered by the oriental voice within the court-room expostulating with impassioned volubility against a charge of falsehood.†   (source)
  • Volubly, troublously, the late clock sounded, coming in on the wake of Big Ben, with its lap full of trifles.†   (source)
  • Others had made the same attempt, and there was a household of Blenkers—an intense and voluble mother, and three blowsy daughters who imitated her—where one met Edwin Booth and Patti and William Winter, and the new Shakespearian actor George Rignold, and some of the magazine editors and musical and literary critics.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Highcamp hung with languid but unaffected interest upon the warm and impetuous volubility of her left-hand neighbor, Victor Lebrun.†   (source)
  • She had learned the value of contrast in throwing her charms into relief, and was fully aware of the extent to which Mrs. Fisher's volubility was enhancing her own repose.†   (source)
  • He grew more and more voluble.†   (source)
  • One of them, a stout, excitable chap with black mustaches, informed me with great volubility and many digressions, as soon as I told him who I was, that my steamer was at the bottom of the river.†   (source)
  • His desire to kill strengthened with the days, and he cherished hungry ambitions for the squirrel that chattered so volubly and always informed all wild creatures that the wolf-cub was approaching.†   (source)
  • All of this, however, did not chill their ardor as much as might have been expected, because of the volubility of the agent.†   (source)
  • Amory, his head spinning gorgeously, layer upon layer of soft satisfaction setting over the bruised spots of his spirit, was discoursing volubly on the war.†   (source)
  • CYRANO (volubly): First, with body naked as your hand, Festooned about with crystal flacons, full O' th' tears the early morning dew distils; My body to the sun's fierce rays exposed To let it suck me up, as 't sucks the dew!†   (source)
  • Their volubility drowned every other noise in the place, and the overheated store sounded of their spirited language as it reeked of pipe smoke, damp woolens, and kerosene.†   (source)
  • The fact that the voluble Bo had nothing to say was significant to Helen, who was following, with the assistance of Roy.†   (source)
  • In midnight volubility Martin and Leora sputtered their affection for him, and saw their Wheatsylvania venture as glory and salvation.†   (source)
  • After these secret scenes I chattered more than ever, going on volubly enough till one of our prodigious, palpable hushes occurred—I can call them nothing else—the strange, dizzy lift or swim (I try for terms!†   (source)
  • He did not know a malaria-bearing mosquito from a bat; he knew nothing about tests of drinking water; and in the matters of plumbing and sewage he was as unlearned as he was voluble.†   (source)
  • He leaned forward to put his elbows upon the back of her seat and proceeded to make himself volubly agreeable.†   (source)
  • Grace Marr now taking the stand, and in a glib and voluble outpouring describing how and where she had first met Roberta—how pure and clean and religious a girl she was, but how after meeting Clyde on Crum Lake a great change had come over her.†   (source)
  • The boarding-house to which they had been directed was kept by a bustling maiden lady, with shrewd eyes and voluble speech.†   (source)
  • She considered herself a superb tennis player; she played it with energy and voluble swoopings and large lack of direction.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Trenor, however, appeared at once on the threshold of the drawing-room, welcoming her with unusual volubility while he relieved her of her cloak and drew her into the room.†   (source)
  • And then he bade them get the fire lit, and stalked out upon his crutch, with his hand on my shoulder, leaving them in a disarray, and silenced by his volubility rather than convinced.†   (source)
  • All of them volubly knew, or indignantly desired to know, where all the others had been every minute of the week.†   (source)
  • But in his eyes, he continued—a tone of bored, weary conviction replacing his previous voluble delivery—the gentleman was already "in the similitude of a corpse."†   (source)
  • Their heads were bound in dirty but carefully folded headkerchiefs, and the old man began at once to state a complaint, voluble, stretching a lank arm, screwing up at Jim his old bleared eyes confidently.†   (source)
  • He talked as volubly as ever.†   (source)
  • He was to placate voluble voters who came in to complain of everything from the smell of sewer-gas to the midnight beer parties of neighbors; he was to dictate office correspondence to the touchy stenographer, who was not a Working Girl but a Nice Girl Who Was Working; to give publicity to the newspapers; to buy paper-clips and floor-wax and report-blanks at the lowest prices; to assist, in need, the two part-time physicians in the city clinic; to direct the nurses and the two sanitary…†   (source)
  • He greeted Philip with enthusiasm, and with his usual volubility told him that he had come to live in London, Ruth Chalice was a hussy, he had taken a studio, Paris was played out, he had a commission for a portrait, and they'd better dine together and have a good old talk.†   (source)
  • He was voluble like a youngster on the eve of a long holiday with a prospect of delightful scrapes, and such an attitude of mind in a grown man and in this connection had in it something phenomenal, a little mad, dangerous, unsafe.†   (source)
  • Keeping one eye on the movements of his crew forward, he let loose his volubility—comparing the place to a "cage of beasts made ravenous by long impenitence."†   (source)
  • 'But I didn't blab it; did I, Fagin?' demanded Tom, pouring question upon question with great volubility.†   (source)
  • "What do you think of that for a fine bit of antithesis?" said the German, searching in his friend's face for responding admiration, but going on volubly without waiting for any other answer.†   (source)
  • But Miss Bates soon came—"Very happy and obliged"—but Emma's conscience told her that there was not the same cheerful volubility as before—less ease of look and manner.†   (source)
  • "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.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Norris was all delight and volubility; and even Fanny had something to say in admiration, and might be heard with complacency.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • However, since no one turned him out, and Anna Sergyevna even presented him to her aunt and her sister, he soon recovered himself and began to chatter volubly.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • And their interpreters, as we could understand, instantly said, "Ah, non Palmas," and began to propose infinite other expedients in most voluble language.†   (source)
  • Could there have been anything like her present disjointed volubility in the fascinations that had captivated him?†   (source)
  • He was listening, with a good-humored, negligent air, half comic, half contemptuous, to Haley, who was very volubly expatiating on the quality of the article for which they were bargaining.†   (source)
  • When the servants had withdrawn, they began to talk for a while volubly but very low; then they went upstairs quietly, Mr. Bullock accompanying them stealthily on his creaking shoes.†   (source)
  • She can express displeasure, volubly, in two or three languages; that's what it is to be intellectual.†   (source)
  • Born a Gascon but bred a Norman, he grafted upon his southern volubility the cunning of the Cauchois.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Pardiggle, leading the way with a great show of moral determination and talking with much volubility about the untidy habits of the people (though I doubted if the best of us could have been tidy in such a place), conducted us into a cottage at the farthest corner, the ground-floor room of which we nearly filled.†   (source)
  • She spoke more forcibly and volubly than he had ever heard her, and she held his arm in her two hands.†   (source)
  • But Billy Kirby was a fearless wight, and had great jealousy of foreign dictation; he had risen on his feet, and turned his back to the fire, during the voluble delivery of this interrogatory; and when the steward ended, contrary to all expectation, he gave the following spirited reply: "Where! why, on the North River, and maybe on Champlain.†   (source)
  • Words of entreaty and prayer these, poured forth volubly and with earnestness and the mighty sanction of beauty.†   (source)
  • Bob spoke with a sharp and rather treble volubility, and got through his long speech with surprising despatch, giving the blade of his knife an affectionate rub on his sleeve when he had finished.†   (source)
  • …needed all the felicity of being again at home, and all the forbearance it could supply, to save Sir Thomas from anger on finding himself thus bewildered in his own house, making part of a ridiculous exhibition in the midst of theatrical nonsense, and forced in so untoward a moment to admit the acquaintance of a young man whom he felt sure of disapproving, and whose easy indifference and volubility in the course of the first five minutes seemed to mark him the most at home of the two.†   (source)
  • Garth delivered this awful sentence with much majesty of enunciation, and Letty felt that between repressed volubility and general disesteem, that of the Romans inclusive, life was already a painful affair.†   (source)
  • At length and at last, it made a feint of going away, and then Miss La Creevy darted out, and darted in, apologising with great volubility to all the passengers, and declaring that she wouldn't purposely have kept them waiting on any account whatever.†   (source)
  • "These, young ladies," said Mrs. Pardiggle with great volubility after the first salutations, "are my five boys.†   (source)
  • Mr. Micawber continued talking as volubly as he could; but not, I thought, without showing, by some marks of concern in his countenance, that he was sensible of sounds in the next room, as of Mrs. Micawber washing her hands, and hurriedly opening and shutting drawers that were uneasy in their action.†   (source)
  • Even Flora's commas seemed to have fled on this occasion; she was so much more disjointed and voluble than in the preceding interview.†   (source)
  • What was said in this disappointing anti-climax, by the disciples of the Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, except that it was something very voluble and loud, would have been as so much Hebrew or Chaldean to Miss Pross and her protector, though they had been all ears.†   (source)
  • …has probably as much to do with these demonstrations as any imbecile intention in the poor old woman, but on the present occasion they are so particularly lively in connexion with the Windsor arm-chair, fellow to that in which Mr. Smallweed is seated, that she only quite desists when her grandchildren have held her down in it, her lord in the meanwhile bestowing upon her, with great volubility, the endearing epithet of "a pig-headed jackdaw," repeated a surprising number of times.†   (source)
  • To outface and down-talk a Calcutta-taught Bengali, a voluble Dacca drug-vendor, would be a good game.†   (source)
  • …was increased twenty-fold, and an astounding string of such shrill contradictions as 'He's poisoned himself'—'He hasn't'—'Send for a doctor'—'Don't'—'He's dying'—'He isn't, he's only pretending'—with various other cries, poured forth with bewildering volubility, until Madame Mantalini was seen to address herself to Ralph, when female curiosity to know what she would say, prevailed, and, as if by general consent, a dead silence, unbroken by a single whisper, instantaneously succeeded.†   (source)
  • At the quarter, it went off into a condition of deadly-lively importunity, urging the populace in a voluble manner to Come to church, Come to church, Come to church!†   (source)
  • The auctioneer sees his advantage, and expatiates volubly in mingled French and English, and bids rise in rapid succession.†   (source)
  • Still, with an unshaken confidence that the English tongue was somehow the mother tongue of the whole world, only the people were too stupid to know it, Mr Meagles harangued innkeepers in the most voluble manner, entered into loud explanations of the most complicated sort, and utterly renounced replies in the native language of the respondents, on the ground that they were 'all bosh.'†   (source)
  • But as soon as she had told her story, the voluble Briggs repented of her frankness and besought my lord not to tell Mr. Crawley of the confessions which she had made.†   (source)
  • Ralph relieved her from her perplexity by taking his departure without delay: Madame Mantalini making many gracious inquiries why he never came to see them; and Mr Mantalini anathematising the stairs with great volubility as he followed them down, in the hope of inducing Kate to look round,—a hope, however, which was destined to remain ungratified.†   (source)
  • When he presented himself again he was racked with a headache—penitent, and volubly afraid that in his drunkenness he might have been indiscreet.†   (source)
  • Some of them had already taken possession of the two children, and were hospitably carrying them off; others were offering loans of little comforts from their own scanty store; others were sympathising with the greatest volubility.†   (source)
  • The poor girl spoke these words with a spirit and volubility which Rebecca had never before seen in her, and before which the latter was quite dumb.†   (source)
  • 'One more remark,' proceeded Flora with unslackened volubility, 'I wish to make, one more explanation I wish to offer, for five days I had a cold in the head from crying which I passed entirely in the back drawing-room—there is the back drawing-room still on the first floor and still at the back of the house to confirm my words—when that dreary period had passed a lull succeeded years rolled on and Mr F. became acquainted with us at a mutual friend's, he was all attention he called…†   (source)
  • Whereupon Kirsch answered him in the English language or in such an imitation of it as he could command—for though he was familiar with all languages, Mr. Kirsch was not acquainted with a single one, and spoke all with indifferent volubility and incorrectness.†   (source)
  • "Miss Swartz, I love Amelia, and we've been engaged almost all our lives," Osborne said to his partner; and during all the dinner, George rattled on with a volubility which surprised himself, and made his father doubly nervous for the fight which was to take place as soon as the ladies were gone.†   (source)
  • Compared both to a tower and to a stubborn mule as he steadfastly resists; the Trojans, he is less agile and voluble than Odysseus, and the poet knows the story (clearly alluded to in The Odyssey) that the two clashed after Akhilleus' death: when the army had to decide who would be awarded Akhilleus' immortal armor, it was Odysseus who won the contest, an insult that drove Aias to suicide.†   (source)
  • Sandringham grew expansive over Colum's Rhenish wine, and talked volubly, expounding equally upon the horrors of travel in the Highlands and the beauties of the countryside.†   (source)
  • Distributing these by way of thanks for the supper, we made our exit, followed by voluble protestations of farewell, gratitude, and good wishes—at least that's what I assumed they were.†   (source)
  • MacNab did not speak or wave in response to Jamie's voluble "God-speeds" and "safe journeys," but only nodded in a dazed way as he left the yard at a walk, seemingly intent on some secret trouble that absorbed his attention.†   (source)
  • In the daylit corridor he talked with voluble pains of zeal, in duty bound, most fair, most kind, most honest broadbrim.†   (source)
  • Voluble, dutiful, he led the way to all the provincial papers, a bowing dark figure following his hasty heels.†   (source)
  • Adjacent to the men's public urinal they perceived an icecream car round which a group of presumably Italians in heated altercation were getting rid of voluble expressions in their vivacious language in a particularly animated way, there being some little differences between the parties.†   (source)
  • Nearer he drew, and many a walk traversed Of stateliest covert, cedar, pine, or palm; Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen, Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank, the hand of Eve: Spot more delicious than those gardens feigned Or of revived Adonis, or renowned Alcinous, host of old Laertes' son; Or that, not mystick, where the sapient king Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse.†   (source)
  • Now sir, this granted;—as it is a most pregnant and unforced position,—who stands so eminently in the degree of this fortune as Cassio does? a knave very voluble; no further conscionable than in putting on the mere form of civil and humane seeming, for the better compass of his salt and most hidden loose affection? why, none; why, none;—a slipper and subtle knave; a finder out of occasions; that has an eye can stamp and counterfeit advantages, though true advantage never present…†   (source)
  • His eye begets occasion for his wit, For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.†   (source)
  • Say that she rail; why, then I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale: Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew: Say she be mute, and will not speak a word; Then I'll commend her volubility, And say she uttereth piercing eloquence: If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks, As though she bid me stay by her a week: If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day When I shall ask the banns, and when be married.†   (source)
  • He will lie, sir, with such volubility that you would think truth were a fool: drunkenness is his best virtue, for he will be swine-drunk; and in his sleep he does little harm, save to his bedclothes about him; but they know his conditions and lay him in straw.†   (source)
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