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Example sentences for "loquacity"

Lexicographically close words:
loppy; lops; lopsided; lopt; loquacious; loquence; loquendi; loqui; loquitur; lor
  1. She had been long accustomed to speak without thinking, and naturally imagined that her impertinent loquacity would be as much admired and applauded by other people as by her thoughtless parents.

  2. When he grew older, he added to his former loquacity the most passionate fondness for fine clothes; so that in the twelfth year of his age, he became as complete a top as ever eyes beheld.

  3. But in his conversation he was mild and affable, not given to loquacity or much discourse in company, unless some urgent occasion required it.

  4. He was," writes one who saw him at this time, "mild and affable in conversation; not given to loquacity or to much discourse unless some urgent occasion required.

  5. Here my old gifts of loquacity and eloquence came opportunely to my aid; and, under the guise of romantic and poetical legends, I contrived to narrate many events out of my own life.

  6. She seemed oddly drawn to Mrs. Marshall, although that lady was now looking rather graver than was her wont, and talked to her of the overflowing Fiske nursery with a loquacity which was evidently not her usual habit.

  7. But now, seeing that neither the façade of Rouen, nor the influence of Chardin on Whistler, had been mentioned, his unusual loquacity continued.

  8. This loquacity met not with any interruption, save now and then a sarcastic remark, from Mr Gosport; for Cecilia was too much occupied by her own affairs, to answer or listen to such uninteresting discourse.

  9. An unsuspected stream of loquacity had broken its dam somewhere deep within the man, had diluted his fiery blood and softened his pitiless fibre.

  10. At the time of his immoderate loquacity one of his customers, an elderly man, had remarked one evening: "If that ass keeps on like this, he will end by going crazy.

  11. The loquacity of night is not less lugubrious than its silence.

  12. He had the loquacity of a charlatan, the leanness of a prophet, the irascibility of a charged mine: such was Ursus.

  13. If loquacity and forwardness to talk many undigested words be a sign of folly among men, how much more when thou speakest to God that is in heaven!

  14. Profane loquacity is the worst kind of loquacity.

  15. Nay, though they may have some learning and goodness to season their discourse, their too much loquacity will make one's stomach turn against it; and the surfeit may make some queazy stomachs distaste even the more wholesome food.

  16. It is an aggravation of the sin of loquacity and idle talk, when it is done in a proud, self-conceitedness of your own wit, with an unmannerly contempt of others.

  17. But she forbore to utter this feeling, and the reticence of her tongue only made the loquacity of her face the more notice- able.

  18. There is a loquacity that tells nothing, which was Bathsheba's; and there is a silence which says much: that was Gabriel's.

  19. He had even questioned Mrs. Jael quietly, and the woman had drawn two gold pieces from him with her emotional loquacity and the trickle of tears down her plump cheeks.

  20. For Mr. Pepys was such a bubble of mirth, such a book of shrewd sense, such a register of anecdotes, that his loquacity and his infinite good-fellowship made even romance linger in its onrush for an hour.

  21. As the loquacity of the Call duck is highly serviceable, these birds being used in decoys, this quality may have been increased by selection.

  22. Remarkable from its small size, and from the extraordinary loquacity of the female.

  23. This loquacity seems at first a surprising character to have been acquired under domestication.

  24. But she forbore to utter this feeling, and the reticence of her tongue only made the loquacity of her face the more noticeable.

  25. Her attendants, the nuns, were astonished and annoyed that she asked them no questions; her taciturnity was irritating to their own loquacity and inquisitiveness.

  26. Bien sur," murmured Saupiquet, who evidently did not count loquacity among his vices.

  27. Through the medium of this diabolical engine of loquacity and indiscretion, I was prevailed on to accompany her to a rehearsal of Anastasius's cats.

  28. As the loquacity of the Call-duck is highly serviceable, these birds being used in decoys, this quality may have been increased by selection.

  29. Loquacity was Byle's riches, but he could transmute speech into action.

  30. The loquacity of the French doctor seemed accelerated by the motion of the boat and the breezy freedom of its deck.

  31. He was mild and affable in conversation,' says one of them, 'not given to loquacity or to much discourse, unless some urgent occasion required.

  32. The employment was productive of pain more than of pleasure, and the curiosity that would uselessly seek a knowledge of my past life was no less impertinent than the loquacity that would uselessly communicate that knowledge.

  33. Books are cold, jejune, vexatious in their sparingness of information at one time and their impertinent loquacity at another.

  34. The loquacity of the barber has grown into a generally recognised feature of his calling.


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