With her usual curious combination of weak volubility and decided laying-down of the law, she was preparing to hold forth to young La France (whom she expected), on the subject of Debussy, Edvina, Marcoux, the appalling singing of all his young friends, his own good looks, and other subjects of musical interest, when Mr Cricker was announced.

"All the same he did not like it," I go on, with amicable volubility; "but I dare say you know that.

" "But what have I done, Richard?" urged the poor lady, stunned and bewildered; "how have I offended you?" "Yes, yes," continued the Frenchwoman, with angry volubility, "what has she done that you call contumacy and disrespect?

He even succeeded in suppressing the constitutional volubility of his countrymen, and in substituting for it the deep, attentive silence of thorough discipline; one of the great causes of his own unusual success in maritime enterprises.

The auctioneer, with the customary volubility of such men in America, began by stating, that the lots now to be offered were the remnants of a preceding sale, which he gratuitously observed had been a most satisfactory one, and after dilating with some energy on the good qualities of the woman before us, whose face brightened up a little on hearing such a flattering account of her good qualities, he earnestly requested a bidding.

Nothing but the most determined volubility on Mrs. Gadley's part could have poured this into the ears of Raymond; Rosamond either could not or would not heed, pushed forward, past the weeping Emma, and pulled away her dress with a shudder, when there was an attempt to draw her back and make her listen. "Don't, girl," said Raymond.

Slender and graceful of form, attractive of feature and dainty in manner, Louise must be credited with many advantages; but against these might be weighed her evident insinceritythe volubility and gush that are so often affected to hide one's real nature, and which so shrewd and suspicious a woman as Aunt Jane could not fail to readily detect.

He opened his mouth and the notes were warbled forth with exquisite volubility and ease.

Summoned by Nobili in a peremptory tone to say why he had brought him hither, Guglielmi broke forth with extraordinary volubility.

He talked at length with extreme volubility, going into all sorts of details, at times assuming a semi-apologetic manner, but more frequently justifying himself with an air of triumph.

" He spoke with feverish volubility, though his throat was parched and every word he uttered caused him pain.

[Finding his fun in bewildering them with cackling guttural volubility.]

Their hostess, an elderly lady of great social gifts and immense volubility, appeared, having for her escort a tall, well-groomed man of youthful middle-age, with the square jaw and humorous gleam in his grey eyes of the best trans-Atlantic type.

"Even if I had not liked him," pursue I, finding words come quickly enough now, and speaking with indignant volubility, as, having risen, I again face him"even if I had wanted to flirt with some one, why on earth should I have chosen you?"

How gaily he jokes with his three sisters; with what inexhaustible volubility he pours out quotations from his favourite poets, applying them to the lovely scenes around him; and with what a mischievous delight in his superior nerve and mettle, he attempts the feats of charioteering, which fill the heart of the youngest of the party with sudden terrors!

He was a dark, Spanish complexioned young man, remarkably handsome, with an officer-like assurance, and an insuppressible volubility of assertion.

"Yes," the countess was saying with lazy volubility; "Paul is one of our oldest friends.

As it was, she devoted no little volubility and emphasis and eulogy to the importance of a genealogist in the eternal scheme of things; and gave her father candidly to understand that an inability to appreciate this fact was necessarily indicative of a deplorably low order of intelligence.

" The waiter, with that nasal volubility peculiar to his race, rapidly ran over the whole vegetable and animal creation.

"This, briefly, was the gist of the matter which Robertson related to the inspector with many repetitions and persistent volubility.

But they want the trim, pointed expression, the ambitious ornaments, the ostentatious display and rapid volubility of his early productions.

He has always a store of reproachful epithets and contemptuous appellations, ready to be produced as occasion may require, which by constant use he pours out with resistless volubility.

They had a very funny debate in private, wherein the feminine tried to dominate the masculine principle by sheer volubility and found to its disgust that the method didn't work.

THE GUINEA-HEN [Who has fallen upon the new arrivals, bursts into shrill volubility before the last of them.

They put fifty questions to him about the playthe assemblythe sermonmarriagesdeathschristenings, and what not; the whole of which he answered with surprising volubility.