"Glibness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... when taking their shady literary walks among the Columns of Interesting Matter, have been known to remark—with a glibness and grace, by Jove, greatly in excess of their salaries—that the reason why we don't produce great works of imagination in this country, as they do in other countries, is because we haven't the ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 • Various
... by this time the glibness born of practice. He rattled off the formula to the elderly woman, looking more like a housekeeper than a servant, who ...
— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie
... applied itself to the transaction of business. Trail was duly sworn in, not without a deal of oily glibness and unnecessary protestation on his part. The man who held the little, worn Bible now turned to Landless, but upon Godwyn's saying quietly, "I have already sworn him," the book was returned to ...
— Prisoners of Hope - A Tale of Colonial Virginia • Mary Johnston
... had been a sort of secretary or clerk in a London office. But while she was with the Morels she queened it. She sat and let Annie or Paul wait on her as if they were her servants. She treated Mrs. Morel with a certain glibness and Morel with patronage. But after a day or so she ...
— Sons and Lovers • David Herbert Lawrence |
