facility of speech

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

Moreover, the practise of fitting words to the mouth rapidly develops fluency and facility of speech.

From Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English by Kleiser, Grenville

The Marquis de Boissy has assurance, coolness, self-possession, a voice that is peculiar to himself, facility of speech, wit occasionally, the quality of imperturbability, all the accessories of a great orator.

From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor

The facility of speech, the adaptive moulding to another's mood was not in him!

From A Man of Two Countries by Dowling, Colista M.

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.