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Observe, Roman, the fashion of his touch. Isaac would have guided a rare hand at the graving tool. But these Jews shun the nicer arts. They are a strange people. 'Quickly, said I, interrupting the voluble Greek, 'as you love the gods, deliver to me the letter! By and by we will discourse of these things' and seizing the epistle, I ran with it to another apartment, first to devour it myself.
Within four months the courteous Sir William Scott was tied fast to a beautiful, shrill, voluble termagant, who exercised marvellous ingenuity in rendering him wretched and contemptible. Reared in a stately school of old-world politeness, the unhappy man was a model of decorum and urbanity.
What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble and he did not wish to be energetic; he is never rapid and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.
For Sulpicius was really the most striking, and, if I may be allowed the expression, the most tragical Orator I ever heard: his voice was strong and sonorous, and yet sweet, and flowing: his gesture, and the sway of his body, was graceful and ornamental, but in such a style as to appear to have been formed for the Forum, and not for the stage: and his language, though rapid and voluble, was neither loose nor exuberant.
Trelyon has sent and taken all our spare rooms; and father says Wenna must come back directly, for it's always 'Wenna, do this, and 'Wenna, do that; and if Wenna isn't there, of course the sky will tumble down on the earth Mother, what's the matter, and where's Wenna?" Mabyn was suddenly brought up in the middle of her voluble speech by the strange expression on her mother's face.
He went on in a voluble and disjointed way to tell how this man was "still there! There where your son, mother, spent fourteen out of these twenty-five long years past!" But the more he said, the more clear was it to Granny Marrable that he was an escaped lunatic. There was, however, in all this sheer raving as she counted it an entire absence of any note of personal danger to herself.
Instead of that voluble and gushing song outside the window, I heard the wrens scolding and crying at a fearful rate, and on going out saw the bluebirds in possession of the box. The poor wrens were in despair; they wrung their hands and tore their hair, after the wren fashion, but chiefly did they rattle out their disgust and wrath at the intruders.
Lawson, who uttered many voluble protestations of her deep grief at her having, even though for the sake of economy, refused the money her dear father had solicited before he left them.
The lady, remembering all Mr. Pole's intimations, was really much frightened; she at first could scarcely reply to the casual observations of her neighbour, and quite resolved not to eat anything. But his lively and voluble conversation, his perfectly unaffected manner, and the nonchalance with which he helped himself to every dish that was offered him, soon reassured her.
The Irish woman, voluble, painted, powdered, bewigged, and with the remains of her handsome figure laced into a black satin gown, nodded her false golden locks and smiled an ambiguous smile when she heard the explanation of young Mrs. Fowler's afternoon call. "But, no, it ees impossible," she protested, forgetting her foreign shrug and preserving with difficulty the trace of an accent.
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