Vandover was in a dreadful condition; the Dummy got so drunk that he could talk, a peculiarity which at times had been known to occur to him.
The proper thing to do was to fill the Dummy's glass while his attention was otherwise absorbed, and in the end to get him so drunk that he could talk.
At times they would be drunk four nights of the week, and on these occasions it was tacitly understood between Ellis and Vandover that they should try to get the Dummy so full that he could talk.
To find his three companions of the wreck and desert in such high state and flourishing condition so cheered and uplifted the soul of the captain that he could talk of nothing else.
He walked the deck of a good ship with a fellow-mariner with whom he could talk as much as he pleased, and under his feet were the bags containing the thousands of little bars for which he had worked so hard.
No; but owing to the great difference in their ages he felt that he could talk to her as he could talk to nobody else.
For a moment he wished that he could talk freely, openly, with some understanding friend, a man of course.
He could talk of his wife and his sons, his estate, and his mode of farming; his tenants, and the mismanagement of the last county election.
So, on account of this friendly feeling, and because we could talk on a few subjects other than the Sainte Vierge and miraculous medals, we were determined to take the trip together.
I had hungered and longed for many years to be with some sister that I could talk with on some other than the written religious subjects and I was sure that this was the opportunity.
But if I could talk to my father, he wouldn't understand me.
I wish I could talk to my father as I would to Jesus Christ if I saw him.
And I kept it in mind so that I could talk to the local office about that.
So before I would proceed with that, I wanted to make sure I had all the records, another agent, and at a better time where I could talk in more detail with Mrs. Oswald.
I could talk to him as long as I wanted to if I just talked about a lot of things that didn't amount to anything.
I stopped at the residence of Mrs. Ruth Paine, 2515 West Fifth Street, and identified myself as a special agent of the FBI, and asked if I could talk to her.
So I feel sure that the chaplain relayed my message to him, because we were getting ready to leave, and he asked the police if he could talk to Robert.
If you wish to correspond with me you can write to the below address, but I really don't see what we could talk about.
He never thought of you except as someone to whom he could talk----" She had no doubt that these weeks were intended for a crisis.
I chose the Park because I thought that we could talk better--We might have been interrupted at home.
I don't know why I feel as though you were the only person to whom I could talk.
I found out that I couldn't do much with even an elevator boy's job at three dollars a week unless I could talk.
Jim used to go with me on all my jaunts--I could talk to him by the hour and never stammer a word.
I never was done being surprised, after he'd hissed the conclusion through his teeth in a way that should have sent chills down your backbone, to hear him rattle off a bunch of notices as fast as he could talk.
He fired these questions at me as fast as he could talk.
Then mother's voice rung out, telling him to leave until he could talk like a man.
But you just said I could talk to Trilling myself--" "If we're lucky.
If there was a crewman on board he could talk to us and we could talk to him.
Lots of 'em was what Peter called "reading notices," and them he mostly got for nothing, for he could talk an editor foolish same as he could anybody else.
I knew he would; he could talk a Come-Outer into believing that a Unitarian wasn't booked for Tophet, if he set out to.
Say, he could talk a Hyannis fisherman into a missionary.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could talk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
