1613. Tourneur, P. Henry, 147.
| To both His aptnesse fluently appeares | |
| In ev’rie souldier’s grief and schollar’s teares. |
1621. W. Sclater, Tythes (1623), 169. Being either principles of the law of nature, or conclusions fluently deduced there from.
1648. W. Montagu, Miscellanea Spiritualia: or Devout Essaies, I. xi. § 2. 133. When this humour of Medisance springeth in the head of the company, it runnes fluently into the lesse noble parts.
1661. Fuller, Worthies (1840), III. 205. He [Henry of Oatlands] fluently could speak many—understood more—modern tongues.
1732. Berkeley, Alciphr., I. § 2. Perceiving that Euphranor heard him with respect, he proceeded very fluently.
1839. Fraser’s Mag., XX. Dec., 668/2. Now she [a ship] swims along calmly and fluently.
1874. Green, Short Hist., vi. § 4. 304. Elizabeth, who spoke French and Italian as fluently as English, began every day with an hour’s reading in the Greek Testament, the tragedies of Sophocles, or the orations of Isocrates and Demosthenes.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 221, The Republic, I. Thrasymachus made all these admissions, not fluently, as I repeat them, but with extreme reluctance.
