It is plain that several members of the family, male and female, wrote not only grammatically, but with a fluency and facility, an epistolary expertness, which implies the habitual use of the pen.
With all my gallantry and fluency in love matters, I was unable to acquit myself tolerably, or to address her with any degree of ease and confidence.
My natural vivacity had forsaken me, and I listened without interrupting him to the fluency of reproachful language which his resentment inspired.
When my pen shall have regained its original fluency and alertness, I will resume and prolong the pleasing task.
The words chosen do not merely render the subject with fluency and fitness; they attain a choiceness and exaltation of expression, which give to the writing much of the character of the designs.
Fluency in itself does not possess sufficient value to justify the expenditure of recitation time.
It may be too sanguine to expect fluency of the average student reciting on a topic for the first time.
Select a list of topics that will at one and the same time cultivate fluency and strengthen the memory for the important considerations of history.
They will secure fluency Review for the purpose of securing fluency is a consideration frequently lost sight of by high school history teachers.
Such exercises encourage the classification of facts and stimulate fluency of expression.
And his failure is only not complete; he is but just redeemed from utter discomfiture by the fluency and simplicity of his equable but inadequate style.
The effect would be an increase influency and hopefully fewer accidents.
The result is not only more fluency but also the diminishing of the effect of aggressivity.
They read with much fluencyand distinctness, equalling white boys of the same age anywhere.
Another planter, by way of replying to our inquiry on this subject, sent for a negro child of five years, who read with great fluency in any part of the Testament to which we turned her.
I went over all these, aloud--my old and favourite plan--so as to gain fluency and facility in uttering them.
From the first this polite sentence was a great favourite of mine, and I was soon able to repeat it with the utmost fluency and ease.
You are pleased to show, sir, The fluency of your language, in advancing A subject much unworthy.
In the second volume the happy pair, now quite sane and sensible, are able to discuss with fluency and precision their ideas on the nurture and education of children.
The story is told with a deft manipulation of details and an easy fluency that would seem to indicate something of a previous literary apprenticeship.
You speak well," he said, "Some people would tell you that you have that fluency of tongue which is judged dangerous.
His fluency in Spanish seemed for the moment to have utterly deserted him.
He was fond of anecdote, and told his stories with the fluency of a man accustomed to public speaking, and the animation and point of a man accustomed to the society of men of wit as well as of men of action.
Page 280 When she had poured forth a volley of words, with a fluencyand loudness that stunned me, Lady Crewe, with a.
The prince first read the fable with fluency and a correct pronunciation in the original language, and then rendered it with the same fluency and correctness in the German.
While Signora Amarilla was laughing and speaking, with the unceasing fluency of tongue peculiar to the ladies of Rome, Leonora stood at her side, her eyes still cast down.
Juvenilia, a volume of Hunt's poems collected by his father and issued by subscription in 1801 contains original work and translations which show wide reading for a boy of seventeen and some fluency in versification.
Yet the verse is distinguished by a fluency and grace and melody that at times are very pleasing.
He mistook for grace and fluency of diction, a turn of phrase that was without poetic connection and often in very poor taste.
On the journey to the capital, Sonnenkamp and Pranken were astonished at Roland's fluency and mental activity; he was the only one who expressed himself freely, for both Sonnenkamp and Pranken could not entirely repress a feeling of anxiety.
There was a certain conversational fluency in Pranken's manner of speaking which at first repelled Manna, but she seemed pleased, upon the whole, to find this carefully trained, versatile man at home in this sphere of thought.
The Italian language was his native tongue, and he spoke it with the most perfect fluency and elegance.
He addressed the assembly in the Italian language, with as much ease of manner, elegance of expression, and fluency of utterance as if his whole life had been devoted to the cultivation of the powers of oratory.
It, of course, here merely denotes the ready fluency of Ulysses.
It is certain that the want of habit, and diffidence are great hindrances to fluency of speech; and it is equally certain, that this natural fluency is a very questionable advantage to him who would be an impressive speaker.
So that this unacquired fluency is so far from essential, that it is not even a benefit, and it may be an injury.
This is much more indisputably true in regard to fluencyof language.
Fluency of language passes with many, and those not always the vulgar, for affluence of thought; and never to be at a loss for something to say, is supposed to indicate inexhaustible knowledge.
There was no trusting with them as with us, to a natural facility, or the acquisition of an accidental fluency by actual practice.
Would they be proof against his lightness, his ease, his fluency and his ability to paint a glowing picture of French might and French gratitude?
The recitatives which they wrote had the fluency of spoken words and were not retarded by melodic forms.
When we find written praise of the old players it always goes to the fluency and lightness of their fingering.
How true in a larger sense," murmured Mrs. Markham, "the habit of courtesy alone preserves the fluency of the heart.
He had spoken with the rapid and unpent fluency of a man who cared more to relieve himself of an oppressive burden than to impress his auditor; yet the restriction of a foreign tongue had checked repetition or verbosity.
