All 3 Uses of
voluble
in
Bleak House
- "These, young ladies," said Mrs. Pardiggle with great volubility after the first salutations, "are my five boys.†
Chpt 7-9
- 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.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- …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.†
Chpt 31-33
Definition:
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(voluble) marked by a ready flow of speech