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Middlemarch vocabulary
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voluble
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synonyms: garrulous, loquacious ???
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Definition:talkativegratuitous sound file: by unfa, license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (original trimmed/edited to reduce file size)
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At the thought of Ukridge toiling on a hot afternoon to manage an undisciplined mob of fowls, and becoming more and more heated and voluble in the struggle, he laughed and promptly swallowed a generous mouthful of salt water.
P. G. Wodehouse. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm (1909)
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Sandringham grew expansive over Colum’s Rhenish wine, and talked volubly,
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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she poured words into this dignified receptacle with a volubility I had never suspected she had in her.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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