Stroeve, with
voluble tongue, explained how he and I had met, and by what an accident we discovered that we both knew Strickland.
She always besieged the bench with
voluble excuses, explanations, apologies and prayers.
There the
voluble mouth and bright penetrating eye are ever directed towards the Master of the household; and light itself is not more persistent than the stream of feminine discourse.
About the period when the churches convene at Edinburgh in their annual assemblies, he was to be seen descending the Mound in the company of divers red-headed clergymen: these
voluble, he only contributing oracular nods, brief negatives, and the austere spectacle of his stretched upper lip.
And when he saw Cocky, one day, perched and
voluble, on the twisted fingers of Kwaque's left hand, Ah Moy discovered such instant distaste for the bird that not even eighteen shillings, coupled with possession of Cocky and possible contact, had any value to him.
He was too
voluble. His infernal chattering worries me even now as I think of it.
I vaguely heard the
voluble landlady's expressions of sympathy and regret; I mechanically took the smelling-bottle which my husband's mother offered to me, after hearing my name, as an act of kindness to a stranger
But the best, in my opinion, was the home life in the little flat-- the ardent,
voluble chats after the day's study; the cozy dinners and fresh, light breakfasts; the interchange of ambitions--ambitions interwoven each with the other's or else inconsiderable--the mutual help and inspiration; and--overlook my artlessness--stuffed olives and cheese sandwiches at 11 p.m.
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.
The boarding-house to which they had been directed was kept by a bustling maiden lady, with shrewd eyes and
voluble speech.
She was one of those big, overpowering women, with blunt manners,
voluble tongues, and goggle eyes, who carry everything before them.
Mercedes Higgins was
voluble as a Greek, and wandered on in reminiscence.