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"No, she hadn't told me. I suppose those long stairs would keep him from going out till he was good and strong. Did she say anything else?" "Only that Giovanna was buying a chicken, and the abbé, she said, was still staying with them." The ladies of the Hermitage did the honors of Florence with modest pride and a certain glibness.
And Purdy laughed, and relished the honey, and had an answer pat for everybody especially the women. His companion on the other hand was greeted with a glibness that had something perfunctory in it, and no touch of familiarity.
Nothing could have been more in the tone of an islander deplorably diverted from his native interests and dignities than the glibness with which John's own child of nature went on.
"But all this is not helping Miss Meredith," spoke up Mobray. "Lord Cornwallis being beyond reach, can I not be of aid?" In a few words the girl poured out the tale of her mother's sickness, and then with less glibness, and with reddened cheeks, of her moneyless and foodless condition.
"You understand well enough," was the reply. "When that girl came whistling over the fence last night you said you thought it was a bird." "I did," said Mr. Chalk, hastily taking a spoonful of egg. Mrs. Chalk's face flamed. "What sort of bird?" she demanded. "Singin' bird," replied her husband, with nervous glibness. Mrs. Chalk left the room. Mr.
Keck, the editor of the "Trumpet," in asserting that Ladislaw, if the truth were known, was not only a Polish emissary but crack-brained, which accounted for the preternatural quickness and glibness of his speech when he got on to a platform as he did whenever he had an opportunity, speaking with a facility which cast reflections on solid Englishmen generally.
Conversation Is Reciprocal Good Conversationalists Cannot Talk to the Best Advantage without Confederates As in Whist, It Is the Combination Which Effects What a Single Whist-playing Genius Cannot Accomplish Good Conversation Does not Mark a Distinction among Subjects; It Denotes a Difference in Talkability The Different Degrees of Talkability Imperturbable Glibness Impedes Good Conversation Ease with Which One May Improve One's Conversational Powers.
So much has been said of the glibness of a female tongue that many of the comparisons made on the subject are become proverbial; but nothing that I ever heard in that way can be compared to the volubility of utterance of Mademoiselle DELILLE, except the clearness of her articulation.
And this I lay down, because some people judging a sausage by the skin, may take in evil part my little glosses of style and glibness, and the mottled nature of my remarks and cracks now and then on the frying-pan. I assure them I am good inside, and not a bit of rue in me; only queer knots, as of marjoram, and a stupid manner of bursting.
A certain tenderness and the minister went together with them all. "But, no, I'm going to sail right in." "Take your own risks, of course, but my advice is to reef all your main er jibsails first," Mrs. Leah Bloodgood wearily murmured. "You'll find the sea choppy." "'Dear Sister Bloodgood," read Marilla, aloud, with reckless glibness, "'Will you be so kind as to send me my best suit?
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