facility of speech
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Ultimately, it seeks to explain the ages-old mystery of precisely how and why man developed the unique facility of speech as an expression of thought, which, more than any other activity, separates him from animals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Madison had the brain of a statesman, energy and persistence in crises, immense industry, facility of speech, a broad contempt for the pretensions and mean bickerings of the States, and a fairly national outlook.
From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
He had a ready wit, a dexterity in epigram, an astonishing facility of speech, and a very great appreciation of his own power of turning friends or foes into ridicule.
From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by McCarthy, Justin
Claudine appeared to her to have an even greater than common facility of speech; it only needed a single hesitating phrase to open the floodgates, and let out a torrent.
From A Canadian Heroine, Volume 3 A Novel by Coghill, Harry, Mrs.
He was not without that facility of speech which is acquired chiefly through "seeing life" and other countries.
From A Start in Life by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
