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

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

From A Man of Two Countries by Colista M. Dowling

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 Grenville Kleiser

Gift of the gab; a facility of speech, nimble tongued eloquence.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

He was not without that facility of speech which is acquired chiefly through "seeing life" and other countries.

From A Start in Life by Katharine Prescott Wormeley