She would listen absorbed to his voluble tales, her bright eyes fixed on his fantastic countenance, her head usually resting upon her hand, and her body bent forward in an attitude of eager attention.
Mrs. Cormack smiled at it, and her smile, caught in a swift glance by Ruston, spurred him to a voluble appeal, that sounded to himself hollow and ineffective.
He began to be voluble in his reproof of her gloomy fancies; but she merely laughed in glee at her ingenuity.
The little French ladies who exhibited these goods were voluble and dramatic, and in true French fashion, and with more or less true French language, they extolled the beauty of their wares.
Mrs. Roland also expressed voluble thanks for the great service the Fairfields had done her, and said that she would call the next day to thank them in person.
He had extremely mobile features; thick, flexible eyebrows; a loose, voluble mouth; a ridiculous figure on a dandified foot.
But that good lady, who though voluble was shrewd, told her husband afterward that she was certain Sir James believed Marsham to be responsible for the Herald article.
The herder began a voluble discourse of mingled protestations and exposition.
The Frenchman threw up both hands and broke intovoluble explanations.
Before, I had deemed it necessary to press the siege, and lead Jim to talk by beginning the attack in a voluble manner.
All this was communicated to me by the voluble old doctor, who was sitting in an invalid's chair, being as yet but half recovered from his neuralgic attack of the morning.
Next Jim's hand came into the cordial grasp of good Mrs. Harris, who was more voluble than Louise Barnard, and none the less sincere.
Evidently Trafton was the station we had just left, and where we took on this voluble passenger.
I must confess that the bandana became Angela well enough to excuse the chorus of admiring expressions that arose from a circle of voluble crones gathered around us.
But Emmy will not judge him to-morrow by contrast with morevoluble talkers.
It was a one-sided altercation; broken and piteous on the one hand, voluble and angry on the other.
His happiness made him unusually loquacious, and at the supper-table he excited the admiration of Matchin and the surprise of Maud by his voluble history of the events of the day.
He had such confidence in his friend's voluble cleverness that he had no doubt Offitt would "talk him free" in a few minutes.
The recovering landlord became volublein the doorway.
The horse-owner, voluble in Albanian, was trying to get past them.
But a French bonne, in a fluted cap, suddenly appeared upon the scene, and cut short the child's further overtures of friendship by drawing her away with swift force and a gust of voluble French reprimand.
Among these was Josie Morley, distressed at the tidings of death, and prepared to utter voluble regrets for having lost Claire in the crowd during the previous night.
But now his gravity by no means lessened under the spell of Claire's rather voluble advances.
The voluble Englishman had some knowledge of guns, and nothing would satisfy him but a post with the very first batteries that lumbered off for the front.
Although he had known the voluble and irascible young Englishman for little more than a day, Fenton had already come to place the utmost reliance in him.
The story gleaned from the voluble Marie had given an added impetus to a natural tendency to revert to the events of the preceding evening.
They gave voluble descriptions of the incident, but no information that was of any value to the impatient Canadian.
She commenced a voluble and slightly embarrassed explanation of how "she" would be down in a moment or so, at the same time leading the way into the parlour.
He was glad when Mrs. Lawton returned and took up her voluble discourse.
On the other hand, certain naive recollections and admissions, which in the quality of a voluble child she occasionally imparted to this "madman" in return, were in the proportion of three to one.
She was volubleover little household affairs, the novel that just then absorbed her, and especially the callers and their chagrin at finding the young girl absent.
The other, in somewhat voluble gutturals, insisted that Ainsley must "kamarade," otherwise surrender.
He wasvoluble like a youngster on the eve of a long holiday with a prospect of delightful scrapes, and such an attitude of mind in a grown man and in this connection had in it something phenomenal, a little mad, dangerous, unsafe.
