How To Use Volubility In A Sentence
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Besides, he began to find himself a mere novice in French gallantry, which is supported by an amazing volubility of tongue, and obsequious and incredible attention to trifles, a surprising faculty of laughing out of pure complaisance, and a nothingness of conversation which he could never attain.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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If Irishmen had not been notoriously fighters, famous for their chivalry, she would have looked on them as a kind of footmen hired to talk and write, whose volubility might be encouraged and their affectionateness deserved by liberal wages.
Celt and Saxon — Volume 2
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“Yes, yes,” continued the Frenchwoman, with angry volubility, “what has she done that you call contumacy and disrespect?
The Evil Guest
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He spoke at such length and with such volubility that you were inclined to believe that he was telling the truth.
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IV. iii.13 (285,5) [they must come off] _To come off_, signifies in our author, sometimes _to be uttered with spirit and volubility_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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O'Connell knew well the use of sound in the vituperation, and having to deal with an ignorant scold, determined to overcome her in volubility, by using all the _sesquipedalia verba_ which occur in Euclid.
Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell
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Catherine Van Vorst saw her throw her arms around him and kiss him on the lips; and Catherine Van Vorst watched him curiously as he went on down the sidewalk, one arm around the woman, both talking and laughing, and he with a volubility and abandon she could never have dreamed possible.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT
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The volubility of his tongue was only equalled by the rapidity of his invention and his powers of mastication; for, during the whole of this entertaining monodrame, his teeth were in constant motion, like the traversing beam of a steamboat; and as he was our captain as well as our guest, he certainly took the lion's share of the repast.
Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
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How much more natural that our understanding should be carried from its place by the volubility of our disordered minds, than that one of us should be carried by a strange spirit upon a broomstaff, flesh and bones as we are, up the shaft of a chimney?
The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 18
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He then spoke with extreme volubility, but it was only a succession of onomatopoeias devoid of sense, of harsh interjections with _a_ and _ou_ predominant, as in the majority of Polynesian idioms.
Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery
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Most of the senior figures in government viewed him with affectionate amusement, and occasionally mild annoyance because of his volubility.
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The volubility of his tongue was only equalled by the rapidity of his invention and the powers of mastication; for, during the whole of this entertaining monodrame, his teeth were in constant motion, like the traversing beam of a steam boat; and as he was our captain as well as our guest, he certainly took the lion's share of the repast.
Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
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He recalls how impressed he was as a child by the volubility and animation of his uncles' marathon conversations.
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Now and then, rubbing his eyes vigorously, an editor catches a sudden glimpse of the revolution and breaks out in naive volubility, as, for instance, the one who wrote the following in the Chicago Chronicle: American socialists are revolutionists.
Revolution
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Greeks were everywhere -- swarthy men in sea-boots and tam-o'-shanters, hatless women in bright colors, hordes of sturdy children, and all speaking in outlandish voices, crying shrilly and vivaciously with the volubility of the Mediterranean.
CHAPTER XI
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Prayer does not consist in gifted expressions and a volubility of speech; but in a brokenness of heart.
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Among them was Christopher Hitchens, the Washington-based writer, a figure of magnetic charm and great volubility.
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Lost in contemplation of the breagar, it finally occurred to him that she might have reasons for not speaking, other than inherent non-volubility.
Flinx's Folly
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He is exploring the idea of "volubility," the opposite of quietness.
NPR Topics: News
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Having finished the satisfying of his own inward man; and commenced the indulgence of adding his contribution to the general nicotian pregnated atmosphere, while proceeding about his vocation, he replied to William's various questions with a wonderful alacrity and volubility, strangely contrasting with the taciturn moroseness which had appeared to be his usual manner.
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
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Now and then, rubbing his eyes vigorously, an editor catches a sudden glimpse of the revolution and breaks out in naive volubility, as, for instance, the one who wrote the following in the Chicago Chronicle: American socialists are revolutionists.
Revolution
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'_nein, nein, nein_,' sprang at him like a little tiger, and by the fierceness of her gestures and the volubility of her German jargon actually compelled him to retreat step by step until she had him outside the door, which she barred with her diminutive person.
Tracy Park
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This he does with unstaunchable volubility.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sheriff, charmed by her madcap volubility, and seeing by the GI gear packed and waiting by the door that she really was heading overseas to serve her country, allowed her to catch her flight.
A Covert Affair
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Benson paused, half vexed at his volubility, and gazed keenly at
CHAPTER V
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She is voluble but it is a volubility weighted with good thoughts on every subject.
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Earlier this month, however, her legendary volubility deserted her.
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I’m talking, freed of all restraint a volubility which isn’t pleasant should you share the room with me.
Pizza