See voluble on Wiktionary
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"text": "What fun shone in his eyes as he recalled some of her fine speeches, and repeated them, imitating her voluble delivery!",
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"word": "口達者な"
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"word": "弁舌のさわやかな"
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"ref": "1649, J[ohn] Milton, “Vpon the Insolency of the Tumults”, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, page 32:",
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"ref": "1886, William Dean Howells, chapter 6, in The Minister's Charge:",
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"ref": "1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Reticence of Lady Anne”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 9:",
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"ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 192:",
"text": "In the daylit corridor he talked with voluble pains of zeal, in duty bound, most fair, most kind, most honest broadbrim.",
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"ref": "1935, Leonard Barnes, Zulu Paraclete: A Sentimental Record, Peter Davies, page 22:",
"text": "Seen from the west, their sky-line gallops away north and south like a sea-serpent in voluble motion.",
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