She was also appallingly fluent in and partial to the idioms and metaphors of revealed religion,a circumstance that would not infrequently cause the sensitive to shudder.

When he was not entertaining bagmen, he was either at Bradford painting bad portraits, or at Haworth pouring out verses, fearfully long, fatally fluent verses, and writing hysterical letters to the editor of Blackwood's Magazine.

Some of the slaves made confessions after conviction in the hope of saving their lives; and these, dubious as they were, furnished the chief corroborations of detail which the increasingly fluent testimony of Mary Burton received.

If you do not know the meaning of fluent and viscous, you will fail to understand correctly the statement, "Fluids range from the peculiarly fluent to the peculiarly viscous."

But, carina, these foreign priests are often of a different way of thinking; and Don Fernanzo Lillo, that fluent Spaniardverily I would have thee don thy most freezing dignity when he comes again.

One woman is placed between two men, unexpected friendships are developed, the lute and the zither are played in the moonlight, love and longing abound, nature is made a confidant, der Zaubern der Kunst is overdone, familiar storiesLeda and the Swan, Actaeon and Danaeare interwoven, there are manifest reminiscences of Emilia Galotti and Ofterdingen, and the prose is uncommonly fluent.