He had a certain personal likeness to the despot Pisistratus; and as his own voice was sweet, and he was ready and fluent in speech, old men who had known Pisistratus were struck by his resemblance to him.

His German seemed not quite so fluent as usual.

What does it all mean?" Then came question and answer; clearer, fuller, more fluent with every sentence.

It was dry and stiff: men's letters almost always are; they cannot say what they feel; they will be fluent of statistics, or description, or philosophy, or politics, but as to feeling,there they are dumb, except in real love-letters, and, of course, Frank's was unsatisfactory accordingly.

The women, as a general rule, are more fluent than the men.

C. P. There is, then, one kind of eloquence which seems fluent by nature; another which appears to have been changed and modified by art.

He says, "A character essentially treacherous only because it is full of soft placid selfishness is one of the most difficult to paint;" but in sketching Tito's career, "the same wonderful power is maintained throughout, of stamping on our imagination with the full force of a master hand a character which seems naturally too fluent for the artist's purpose.

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."

Written in lyric or ballad form, fluent at their worst and loose, but never feeble; powerful, vehement, and overflowing at their best, their cycle contains some of Emily Brontë's very finest verse.