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The significance of the title is further traceable in a peculiar spontaneousness running through the play.

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman

She was full of these graceful flatteries, that proved the more effective because of their seeming spontaneousness.

From Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

"I'm so sorry you've a souvenir of any kind," said Nan quickly, with the spontaneousness which was part of her charm.

From The Moon out of Reach by Pedler, Margaret

On the other hand, Wordsworth’s poetry is never bounding, never ebullient; has little even of the appearance of spontaneousness: the well is never so full that it overflows.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

In the following sentence she betrays, by the law of opposites, the deepest charm of such a nature as her own; namely, a thoroughly sincere and fluent spontaneousness of character.

From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville