281 examples of fluent in sentences

This dame was a very fluent, ready-witted woman, and she spoke with the confidence that consciousness of the powers of disputation commonly inspires.

But Giles the archer, sitting beside him, vented by turns bitter curses upon Sir Pertolepe and humble prayers to his patron saint, so fluent and so fast that prayers and curses became strangely blent and mingled, on this wise: "May Red Pertolepe be thrice damned with a candle to the blessed Saint Giles that is my comfort and intercessor.

In their Regular Army French and either English or German are compulsory studies, and a good standard of fluent conversation is required.

Noyes is one of the most spontaneous and fluent writers of modern English poetry.

His German seemed not quite so fluent as usual.

Thiers was a ready and fluent speaker, but MacMahon could scarcely say (or learn by heart) twenty consecutive words.

"Oh, yes," said the priest, "all these boys can read it;" and the one I addressed immediately pulled a volume from his breast, and commenced reading in fluent Hebrew.

"You see, ma'am," turning to Mrs. Morland, "how very fluent she is in French; and she has only been learning eleven quarters.

Undine was never at a loss for the spoken word: Ralph had often wondered at her verbal range and her fluent use of terms outside the current vocabulary.

Mr. Johnson, who was quite a fluent talker, enlarged upon the wealth and prosperity of the city; and Wellington, who had never before been in a town of more than three thousand inhabitants, manifested sufficient interest and wonder to satisfy the most exacting cicerone.

There is a Mr. Fox, a Dissenting Minister, as fluent a speaker, with a sweeter voice and a more animated and beneficent countenance than Mr. Irving, who expresses himself with manly spirit at a public meeting, takes a hand at whist, and is the darling of his congregation; but he is no more, because he is diminutive in person.

Lawyers are apt to think the view That interests them must interest you; Hence they appear at table Or supereloquent, or dumb, Fluent as nightingales, or mum As horses in a stable.

It was not the first case in which fluent declamation has taken the place of argument.

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.

"There are with every man at least two evil spirits."... "With wicked genii there is also a fluent speech, but harsh and grating.

There is also among them a speech which is not fluent, wherein the dissent of the thoughts is perceived as something secretly creeping along within it.

No more delightful talker than Mendès, no more accomplished littérateur, no more fluent and translucid critic.

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.

The sweet, persuasive voice, the fluent speech, and occasionally a flash of the old energy, were all we who knew her in later years were granted, to show us what had been; but it was enough to confirm the accounts given by those who had felt the power of her oratory in those early times.

She was never very fluent, and cared little for the flowers of rhetoric.

If their hearts were not as light, their faces gave no sign; and their tongues flung back the good-humored jibes of their fellows in Spanish as fluent as any they heard.

Everything electric stimulates the spirit to fluent, precipitous, musical creation.

Here Theodore tried to say sunthin', and knowin' he wuz such a fluent talker I wuz bound to git my explanation in before he begun, for I wouldn't interrupted him for the world after he got to goin'.

You drink this recasting of the planet's joys and sorrows, contempt and contradictions, while it is yet fluent and bubbling to the lip.

His talk was fluent, incisive, and put forward without reference to what might be the prejudices or indeed the well-based principles of his listeners.

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