The hostess sat silent, but no second talker was needed when the poet was present.
Johnson would not have been the wonderful talker he was if he had lived like Richardson among gaping women and stupid {232} toadies.
A great talker cannot exert his talent in solitude; he cannot properly exert it except in a society of intelligent men who can understand, appreciate, and in some degree contend with him.
Our impression of his overwhelming distinction as a talker is not derived only from our own judgment as we read Boswell's record of it.
The historian who could not talk was not likely to appreciate the great talker who cared nothing for history: so one is not surprised to find Johnson dismissed in the famous Memoirs as merely the "oracle" of Reynolds.
You are sheep; are you fools also, to be dazzled by the words of an idle talker who promises all and gives nothing?
Will you listen to me, whom you have known for years, or to this talker from the town?
They say he's a smart talker an' that he can split ye wide open laughin'.
Dante was such a poor talker that no one would ever ask him to dinner.
In fact, it is a good thing once in a while to break in upon the monotony of a steady talker at a dinner-table, tea-table, or any other place of social converse.
I have not told how many cups are commonly on the board, but by using the plural I have implied that there is at least one other talker or listener beside myself, and for all that appears there may be a dozen.
The best talker is liable to become the most formidable of bores.
He was a delightful talker, too, a really great talkerin a certain way--an artist in vivid words and eloquent pauses.
He was not only an admirabletalker but he was invariably smiling, eager, full of life and the joy of living, and above all given to unmeasured praise of whatever and whoever pleased him.
There had been great curiosity about him; he was said to be the best talker of the day, and one of the ripest scholars.
Then they knew you as a great talker even at Oxford?
Though his fame as a witty and delightful talker grew from week to week, even his marriage did not stifle the undertone of dislike and disgust.
The tone of good society, though responsive to political talent, and openly, eagerly sensitive to money-making talent, is contemptuous of genius and rates the utmost brilliancy of the talker hardly higher than the feats of an acrobat.
Had he only been a painter he would never have exercised an extraordinary influence; but he was a singularly interesting appearance as well and an admirable talker gifted with picturesque phrases and a most caustic wit.
In 1894 a book appeared, "The Green Carnation," which was a sort of photograph of Oscar as a talker and a caricature of his thought.
Frank," he cried reprovingly, laughing at the same time delightfully, "I was a great talker at school.
Critical observers began to make up their minds that he was a talker and not a writer.
When a talkerhas turned ninety an' can meet me on equal ground, I'll consent to argue with him.
He's still the best talker about here, and he frets if he is left by himself.
And so this smooth-tongued, persuasivetalker ran on and on while Chip, fascinated, in spite of her dislike of him, listened.
He soon concluded she was sane enough, however, but the most voluble talker who ever shared his seat.
Medini who was a great talker and a dreadful liar thought to persuade me by shewing me a number of open letters, commending him in pompous terms to the best houses in Florence.
He was a delightful talker and his memory was a store-house of knowledge and recollections that he could draw upon whenever required.
Often was he the most sympathetic of listeners, but as a rule he was a great talker and an unrivalled story-teller.
A good talker should cultivate a temperance in talking; so as not to talk too much, to the exclusion of other good talkers.
A good talker is never displeased with a good hearer.
Eloquence in the informal discourse of the parlour or the country walk did not mean in Diderot's case the empty fluency and nugatory emphasis of the ordinary talker of reputation.
Apart from his moral inaptitude for the monumental achievements of authorship, Diderot was endowed with the gifts of the talkerrather than with those of the writer.
We are told that one of the requisites of the really good talker is to be a good listener; the apparently good talker is in reality a monologuist.
Every writer or talker professes to have already found it, and to proclaim it to others.
Every writer or talker professes to have already found it, and to proclaim it to others 369 The search for truth by various interlocutors was a recognised process in the Sokratic age.
Not much of a talkeris Peter," said the genial Brisket.
The captain was practically the only talker at tea, but the presence of two attentive listeners prevented him from discovering the fact.
I hav alwus noticed that he iz the best talker whoze thoughts agree with our own.
Her seckond husband waz a pretty good talker but a poor listener, and, tharefore, he died.
It was evident that he was quite as doubtful of his ability as a talker as was Johnson.
I cannot speak or talk, as it were, because I am not particularly ready at the making of a speech, due partly to the fact that I am not much of a talker anyhow, and seldom if ever speak.
Not that the talker has any of the hunter's pride, though he has all and more than all his ardour.
A talker of a different calibre, though belonging to the same school, is Burly.
So that he that will revive lost religion, must avow it as God's Abels have done before him: every talker cannot do this.
The brisk talker of 'talkative,' was confounded--he heard pious godly women mourning over their worthlessness instead of vaunting of their attainments.
Nor was Burl unwilling to listen; for, though so fond of talking himself, and so good a talker too, he was one of the best listeners in the world.
No scandal had touched his name, his fame as a talker was growing among his equals, and he seemed to live in the enjoyment of his own spontaneity.
No good talker is obtrusive, thrusting forward his observation on men and things.
The sign talker is an artist, grouping persons and things so as to show the relations between them, and the effect is that which is seen in a picture.
Every sign talker necessarily has, to some extent, a dialect of his own.
A thorough signtalker would be able to talk with several Indians who have no signs in common, and who, if their knowledge of signs were only memorized, could not communicate together.
In this connection it is proper to urge a warning that a mere sign talker is often a bad authority upon principles and theories.
The sign talkerhas the succession of time at his disposal, and his scenes move and act, are localized and animated, and their arrangement is therefore more varied and significant.
This is substantially the mode in which an Indian sign talkerwould find it necessary to tell the story, as is shown by several examples given below in narratives, speeches, and dialogues.
God forbid that so unpractical a talker should be a sample of the most practical people upon earth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "talker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chatterbox; conversationalist; debater; demagogue; speaker; spieler; spokesman; talker
