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Example sentences for "garrulity"

Lexicographically close words:
garrisons; garron; garrote; garroted; garrotted; garrulous; garrulousness; gars; gart; garter
  1. Greek philosophy is ending in garrulity and mysticism.

  2. We recognize the noisy sports of boyhood, the business application of maturity, the feeble garrulity of old age.

  3. To all this amiable and erratic garrulity there seemed to be neither direction nor significance.

  4. He even hinted to those about him at Headquarters that this seeming garrulity was serving a good end, claiming it to be harmless pother to "cover" more immediate trails on which he pretended to be engaged.

  5. The previous garrulity of our party was now hushed, and they exhibited the most laudable prudence.

  6. His garrulity is the garrulity of old age in its last flickering moments.

  7. In this play Shakespeare manifests for the first time not only the full majesty but the many-sidedness of his genius, the suppleness of style which is equal at once to the wit of Mercutio and to the racy garrulity of the Nurse.

  8. Read but the confused garrulity and impossible imagery of the dedication in 1598, and could a more shocking collection of mediƦval philology be found outside the two pages he writes about Homer?

  9. Kind reader, indulge the garrulity of age, and allow me to recount one of these.

  10. This is really the sugar of life, and the garrulity of age loves to recount these, for in his narrative he lives over and revives the attachments of boyhood.

  11. It is to the garrulity of Dibdin writing before there was any prospect that this class of institutions would reach their subsequent importance and usefulness, that we owe many minute items of detail about the cradle of the new system.

  12. He never ceases to chatter with eternal garrulity to his companions; and while he adduces a multitude of reasons void of physical meaning, he waters the book, spread out upon his lap, with the sputtering of his saliva.

  13. He grew more rational as they walked home, but talked and argued all the way with that semi-hysterical garrulity which was so painful to his hearers.

  14. He rambled on with this horrible garrulity for a time that seemed almost an eternity to his agonised wife, and only ceased at last from positive exhaustion.

  15. How far his garrulity might have betrayed him, could be conjectured only by one of the girls taking his hand and leading him submissively into the house.

  16. It was highly ridiculous to see them, for after the first burst had subsided, they began to chat with a garrulity far beyond that of the most talkative of their European sisters.

  17. And the worst thing about man's garrulity is that he taxes the intellect so heavily, that what he says is loaded with so much meaning.

  18. And I nearly forgot to point out what a monumental proof of naive garrulity the Talmud is.

  19. He has sometimes been compared to Pepys, but, except in point of garrulity and of readiness to set down on paper anything that came into their heads, there is little likeness between the two.

  20. His egotism, like most egotism, is a compound of frankness and affectation, and its sincerity is not, as an attraction, equal to the easy garrulity for which it affords an occasion of display.

  21. Secretive as he was, he would be garrulous among his intimates if garrulity enhanced his self-importance.

  22. In a word, without expressly asking me to spy out the land for him, he wished me to do so, and trusted to my interest, garrulity or whatnot to report to him anything I might discover.

  23. He proved, however, to be anything but a conjurer, and his simple garrulity soon dispelled all the magic and mystery with which I had enveloped this antiquated pile and its no less antiquated inhabitants.

  24. He was very communicative, having all the easy garrulity of cheerful old age, and I fancy was a little flattered by having an opportunity of displaying his piscatory lore, for who does not like now and then to play the sage?

  25. In the first place he had been dismayed and silenced by the garrulity of his new companions.

  26. The doctor's tipsy garrulity was driving him to tell all that he knew.

  27. With ready garrulity and in the broadest Tyrolean patois, which had frequently to be explained by him to his North-German questioner, he answered all questions put to him.

  28. I saw at once that I had hit on a point where his native garrulity was protected by the chain-mail of religious discipline that every Catholic priest wears beneath his cassock.

  29. It took me some time to discover under his surface garrulity the impenetrable reticence of his profession, and under his enjoyment of trifles a levelling melancholy which made all enjoyment trifling.

  30. The old lady's garrulity was so incessant, her tone so monotonous, and her narratives so totally devoid of either point or interest, that Miss Heathcote caught herself several times on the verge of falling asleep.

  31. A confusion inspired by an impulse toward garrulity was in his eyes.

  32. The most curious change her freedom brought Doris was a garrulity that surprised even herself.


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