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Meanings of very taciturn in English

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Usage of very taciturn in English
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She was a very taciturn woman and made few confidences to anyone.
The Mystery of 31 New Inn
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He was very taciturn, but he was quiet and gentlemanly in his behaviour.
The Shrieking Pit
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He was very distant and very taciturn; he seemed to have grown much older.
"My Novel" — Volume 06
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Colonel B--was a widower of a very taciturn disposition.
Amusements in Mathematics
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Maradick was forty-two or three, large, rather heavy in build and expression and very taciturn.
Fortitude
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Like everybody else, I found Mr. Hawthorne very taciturn.
Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
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He was very taciturn, and his features seemed fine and determined under his thick, black beard.
Monsieur de Camors — Volume 2
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He was very taciturn, and would rather remain at the officers' fire than join his fellows.
Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia / Performed Un...
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Longstreet is generally a very taciturn and undemonstrative man, but he was quite affectionate in his farewell.
Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863
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Maggie, the Irishwoman, was very taciturn.
Strange True Stories of Louisiana
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He had become very taciturn.
Invisible Links
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The Frenchwoman-nowlong dead-wasvery taciturn, and there were those who said she could have told more than she did.
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
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Sometimes he was very taciturn and entirely absorbed with his short-stemmed pipe; at other times full of humor and entertaining.
The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson / In Which is T...
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Keith was very taciturn.
The Gray Dawn
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She gave a slight bow of acknowledgment and left the platform, followed by the Prince, who had grown suddenly very taciturn.
The Northern Light
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He found a very taciturn old man, who was nearly as difficult to deal with in any rummaging process as a porcupine.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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