garrulity

• “If she had only known which was the real one; she felt at times that his garrulity was a blind -- that he watched her almost satirically whilst he talked.”

  The Wooden Horse

• “His garrulity is the garrulity of old age in its last flickering moments.”

  The Great Taboo

• “Few octogenarians had as little of what is termed the garrulity of age as Colonel Burr.”

  Memoirs of Aaron Burr

• “garrulity," as she called it, to have been unintentional, I might have been flattered.”

  Kent Knowles: Quahaug

• “It expresses the garrulity of the sea, and is a pleasant break in the monotony of the life.”

  Chapter 25

• “The garrulity began with the nonfiction books, "Death in the Afternoon" 1932 and "Green Hills of Africa," both written self-indulgently in the first person.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Slow Crack-Up

• “Saxon ceased abruptly, embarrassed by her own garrulity; and yet the impulse was strong to tell this young man all about herself, and it seemed to her that these far memories were a large part of her.”

  CHAPTER VIII

• “He said he had been processing waste from around the world for twenty years, but his garrulity ended as a crowd gathered.”

  Simon & Schuster: When a Billion Chinese Jump

• “Eventually Haroun helped restore to his father, Rashid Khalifa. all the garrulity and mellifluousness for which he, in the story, and Mr. Rushdie, in life, are celebrated.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Return to the Land of Rushdie

• “He became pompous and wordy, with at times an incomprehensible garrulity.”

  Fictionaut: Beard

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