It must contain, of course, certain old standard tunes which seem justly destined to live in perpetual favor, and it must surround these with clusters of new tunes, which shall be as solid and correct in their harmony as the older, while their lightness and fluency of melody belong to the present day.

Now it is a dying man, beside whom she has to watch, longing to minister words of comfort, yet unable to do so, fearing that her then want of fluency in the language might trouble him in his weakness.

His words come down to us in a rapture of broken fluency from impossible intoxicated heights.

"Let me see!as to French, I am mistress of that, and speak it, if possible, with more fluency than English.

Looked into closely, the conclusion from a man's profile, voice, and fluency to his certainty in multiplication beyond the twelves, seems to show a confused notion of the way in which very common things are connected; but it is on such false correlations that men found half their inferences about each other, and high places of trust may sometimes be held on no better foundation.

Her voice had gained a wonderful fluency amid the general thaw.

Something told him the other was deliberately lying, and the fluency with which he delivered that remarkable story announced the self-named Jake Storms an accomplished fakir, if ever there was one.

Spencer, after an instant of good-natured hesitation, complied with unbroken fluency for a quarter-of-an-hour or more.