They are rich in all utterance and all knowledge; that is, they are very brilliant and eloquent talkers about spiritual things, and also very deep and subtle thinkers about spiritual things.

We know, from his own words, that he was slow of speech; that he had more thought in him than he could find words forvery different from a good many loud talkers, who have more words than thoughts, and who get a great character as politicians and demagogues, simply because they have the art of stringing fine words together, which Moses, the true demagogue, the leader of the people, who led them indeed out of Egypt, had not.

He was a charming, easy talker.

When they took their places at table, she had motioned to Gifford to sit beside her, and from that position it gradually forced itself upon his notice that Henshaw scarcely took his eyes off his hostess, addressing most of his conversation, and he was a fluent talker, to her.

Is the ugly unready man in the corner, outside the current of conversation, really likely to have a fairer view of things than the agreeable talker, whose success strikes the unsuccessful as a repulsive example of forwardness and conceit?

He was an admirable talker, and a tolerable author.

You are sheep; are you fools also, to be dazzled by the words of an idle talker who promises all and gives nothing?" There was a sullen silence.

Their style is at once correct and easy, and it is as a humorist, a sly observer of manners, and, above all, a delightful talker, that Addison is best known to posterity.

Mr. Scripps was a rapid talker, a brisk man of business, and he disposed of the cases presented in quick order.

Personally he was a most delightful man, at his best a very amusing talker, a pleasant companion and an excellent Commanding Officer.

Between the mere talkers and the proscribed office-holders, Ireland would get none of her business done, if the Imperial Government did not undertake affairs, and see that Ireland was taken care of by somebody or other.

" There were the clever talkers also who, having nothing to fear from a contest of words, began an argument in the flattering hope that they could bring the wandering sheep back to the fold.

1. He told Boswell (ante, i. 68) that he had been a sort of lax talker against religion for some years before he went to Oxford, but that there he took up Law's Serious Call and found it quite an overmatch for him.

Why is there a different standard of judgment with regard to a writer who plays much the same part in literature as the excessive talker plays in what is traditionally called conversation?

Albert was an enthusiastic and effective talker, and it was for this reason that Plausaby had wished to interest him by getting him to "jump" Whisky Jim's claim, which lay alongside the town.

If Mr. Coleridge had not been the most impressive talker of his age, he would probably have been the finest writer; but he lays down his pen to make sure of an auditor, and mortgages the admiration of posterity for the stare of an idler.

In a quiet, unobtrusive way Hubert was a graceful talker, and he knew how to adapt his theme, and bring it within the circle of the sympathies of his listeners.

But he bore everything so bravely, so silently,often silent for a whole evening in the midst of pleasant talkers, but not impertinently sad, nor ever sullen,that we all loved him a little more at such times.

At such times she sat listlessly by and said little, for Thursday was no voluble talker, especially when busied over his press.

As poor a talker as I am, I am a better talker than writer.

As her father, mother, and brother were all exuberant talkers, this little person by a sort of reaction, withdrew into herself, where she could talk freely.

These, at least, are my two favourites, and both are loud, copious intolerant talkers.

These, at least, are my two favourites, and both are loud, copious intolerant talkers.

Around the campfires in the evening he became one of the most industrious talkers, and now

Are the talkers of to-day in truth so immeasurably inferior to the great men who preceded them?