All 3 Uses of
fluent
in
Arrowsmith
- Wasn't there a technique of manners as there was of experimentation…… Gottlieb's fluent benchtechnique versus the clumsy and podgy hands of Ira Hinkley…… Or was all this inquiry a treachery, a yielding to Duer's own affected standard?†
Chpt 7 *
- Any questioning of his fluent figures about tuberculosis, any hint that the cause of decline in the disease may have been natural growth of immunity and not the crusades against spitting and stale air, Pickerbaugh regarded as a criticism of his honesty in making such crusades.†
Chpt 21
- As he went fluently on from experiment to experiment, as the drama of science obsessed him, he thought very well of himself and found himself taken seriously by the others.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(fluent) able to easily comprehend and express; or expressed smoothly -- especially in a foreign language