| 单词 | gabble |
| 例句 | No matter what sound-making device is placed at their disposal, creatures in general do a great deal of gabbling, and it requires long patience and observation to edit out the parts lacking syntax and sense. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Music from an unseen orchestra was barely audible over the gabble of conversation. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She was gabbling something to Mr. Taphouse, but he couldn’t make it out either, because he said, “Slow down, Sister. Slow down. Take a breath and speak slowly.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The answer was a harsh gabbling which they all felt immediately to be exotic. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Already an excited voice was gabbling from the telescreen, but even as it started it was almost drowned by a roar of cheering from outside. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The three-day shriek died down into a gabbling, then a sobbing, then a silence. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Where’s a pencil, I need a pencil, I’m sure there’s a pencil around here somewhere,” I gabbled. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Their profound silence became broken by a conversational gabble. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Women do have always his voice above the gabble voice that breathed an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m delighted that the egg never hatched,” she gabbled. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Inside, she saw a young boy in a bedraggled blue kefta pacing restlessly, gabbling to himself, scratching at his arms. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Then the women start up again, scheming, gabbling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Oh yes, I’m fine,” Neville gabbled in the same unnaturally high voice. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z After a while the kid learned so fast she gave out of Spanish and just gabbled along with made-up sounds. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He poked his head into the doorway and began to gabble good-naturedly about something or other, and after a few minutes we picked up our drinks and followed him back to the living room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Most of them were gleeful, delighted with what they had found and seen, and as they ran they gabbled and yammered after the fashion of their kind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z From the table at Winston’s left, a little behind his back, someone was talking rapidly and continuously, a harsh gabble almost like the quacking of a duck, which pierced the general uproar of the room. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The baby and the dæmon gabbled cautiously together. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The road curved alongside rivers that rolled and gabbled hurry, hurry, hurry. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Their gabble circled the cinder-block walls and popped from the gunnery slots. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Now fury mounted in Eurymakhos, who scowled and shot back: “Bundle of rags and lice! By god, I’ll make you suffer for your gall, your insolent gabble before all our men.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Moore records their nervous gabble, but also Ira's circling thoughts. The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore. Week two: dialogue 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z The Argentine Spanish, at least for this non-native Spanish speaker, was much more difficult to follow than the Mexican – mainly because several of the actors struggled with their diction, often gabbling the words. Henry IV (Parts I and II) ? review 2012-05-17T11:02:25Z The quotation emerged from Shteyngart's mouth in a richly syrupy Caribbean accent, quite unlike his own rat-tat-tat gabble; his armoury as a comedian includes a gift for mimicry. 'America's top satirist' 2010-09-04T23:02:00Z Both, however, are sporting impenetrable sunglasses that reflect back my own huddled, gabbling form. Cannes 2012 diary: day eight 2012-05-23T14:43:28Z But on four larger canvases that deal with art-world sexism, racism in entertainment and the dispiriting gabble of the presidential campaign, the artist hits with just the right force from just the right distance. What to See in New York ArtGalleries This Week 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z His English is fine, at times endearingly experimental, but he is not a man to gabble. Cannes film festival: Mathieu Amalric 2010-05-17T20:35:00Z I mean gabble, gabble, gabble, gabble … Has she some new stories for you? Interview: Olwyn Hughes, Sylvia Plath's literary executor 2013-01-18T17:12:15Z “Trust,” I say, gabbling in the release of endorphins, in a delirium, lying on my back on the wide, flat rock. You Have to Let Go to Move On 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z He plays tenor saxophone in cries and gabbles and interval jumps and long tones; his music usually describes motion and spirit rather than corresponding to preset tonal centers, rhythms, and melodies. Celebrating Charles Gayle at the Vision Festival 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z True, the narration that bookends the show includes gabbled allusions to Chekhov’s life: apparently there are some incidental connections between him and a Russian baron in Lugano, Switzerland, whence hails Mr. Finzi Pasca. Theater Review: ‘Donka: A Letter to Chekhov,’ by Daniele Finzi Pasca, at BAM 2012-11-16T22:50:08Z I remembered, as I listened to Best's gabbling patter, that Simon Callow once described Saint-Saëns as "the Escoffier of music". La princesse jaune/La colombe; La rondine – review 2013-07-13T23:05:23Z Perhaps it was because I am tall; I gabble; I'm often accused of being reserved and sarcastic; and I don't like politicians much. Stephen Fry recalls his student days for West End play: From the archive, 2 April 1988 2013-04-02T06:00:00Z Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian The young man strutting down Hartley Road, Nottingham, is gabbling into his mobile phone until he draws level with us. On the trail of Alan Sillitoe's angry young man 2011-08-15T20:30:03Z The machines wink, dials twitch, numbers gabble across screens. Documenta 13: Mysteries in the mountain of mud 2012-06-11T17:53:51Z My father thought that Catholics were rogues who broke the laws of God and man at will, then toddled off to confession, gabbled three Hail Marys and started all over again. Catholic art was once the domain of Titian. Now, we get Susan Boyle 2010-09-19T21:15:00Z The book consists entirely of the gabble and complaints of those buried in a village cemetery. Never mind that all of the characters are dead, ‘The Dirty Dust’ is full of life 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z I bet all those young people we see there every day, crowding the Pariser Platz like a German Times Square and gabbling in their cacophony of tongues, don’t give it a second thought. In Berlin, it’s a whole new city, but the Wall’s traces remain There’s no need for directorial intervention with material that like its gabbling characters, speaks and sings so urgently for itself. ‘Assassins,’ Sondheim and Weidman’s Musical, in London 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z All around, the people are gabbling into mobile phones. Cannes diary: day six 2012-05-21T15:13:14Z For nearly an hour the actors practiced a 10-minute excerpt in which Ms. Boras knocks dishes to the floor, hides beneath the tablecloth and gabbles nonsense. John Ford?s ?Broken Heart? and ? ?Tis Pity She?s a Whore? 2012-01-27T18:00:00Z But the wobbly plot doesn’t really go anywhere; it’s more a series of disconnected scenes, featuring characters who aren’t really much more realistically textured than the figures in video games, although they certainly gabble more. Review: ‘The Dudleys’: Dad’s in Control. From Beyond the Grave. 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z It continues in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, where a fierce and jumpy guy waving a newspaper cutting gabbles the details of a shooting and a heist. The Human Comedy; Blood and Gifts; Accomplice 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z King Kong has so much to say, often in interesting ways, that it gabbles and fluffs its lines. King Kong - review 2013-06-16T20:43:38Z Its very rapidity leads to some gabbled speaking, and the hurtling style which Boyd adopted for Shakespeare's histories is sometimes ill-suited to a play full of rhetorical excess. Review|Theatre|Antony and Cleopatra, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon|Michael Billington 2010-05-10T23:18:00Z Playing Eliza, the TV actress Honeysuckle Weeks — how Shaw would have smiled at so extravagant a name — gabbles more of the role than seems advisable in a play that makes such a virtue of precision. Review: Old Favorites, With New Tricks 2010-08-10T14:33:00Z Priestley incubated his hunches in the cosmopolitan gabble of 18th century London coffee shops. 'Where Good Ideas Come From': Steven Johnson asks why great ideas arise where they do 2010-09-29T21:40:00Z At 41, he is disarmingly boyish, with a cherub’s fleshy face and a tendency to gabble enthusiastically when a subject excites him. The Playwright Mac Rogers Explores Robots, Aliens and Allegory 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z NL Yes, I know she isn't new, but her statement has that air of excitedly ill-conceived gabble that new appointees to the post feel obliged to spout. Is Radio 4 just too gloomy? 2013-01-19T18:01:01Z As they stare in mortified confusion at the audience, gabbling away, a sign reading “Sex Show” descends from above. Critic’s Notebook: At the Live Arts Festival, ‘Bang,’ ‘27’ and ‘Zero Cost House’ 2012-09-21T23:02:38Z He approves of wordlessness – the less you talk, the longer you live, one fisherman tells him – but gabbles away like mad in his diary. Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson – review 2013-06-01T11:00:01Z “And you saw a child strangled, Billy?” said Strike, as in the next room Denise gabbled: “Police, quickly!” Extract: Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (the pseudonym of JK Rowling) 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, our president gabbles about “winners” and “losers,” terrified that most people don’t see him as one of the winners, and unashamed of his naive admiration for the strength of dictators. Politicians love to talk about “survival of the fittest.” They don’t know what that means 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, our president gabbles about “winners” and “losers,” terrified that most people don’t see him as one of the winners. How politicians have corrupted the concept of “survival of the fittest” 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Advance word on “Hereditary” told, or gabbled, of something more arresting than a regular fright night. “Hereditary” Delivers a New Kind of Horror 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z This humanoid bot gave a speech to the UN, became a “citizen” of Saudi Arabia, and triggered headlines like “Sophia wants a baby” after gabbling some vague, pre-programmed remarks about the importance of families. The 11 best, worst, and weirdest robots of 2017 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Denise was now gabbling loudly into the phone beyond the flimsy partition wall. Extract: Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (the pseudonym of JK Rowling) 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Another controversial early work, Eight Songs for a Mad King, combined monologues spoken, shrieked and gabbled by the mad George III with fragments of Handel's Messiah. Obituary: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies - BBC News 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z If I had carried on, the book would have been hernia-inducingly heavy, and it would have been a gabble. Why Orson Welles lived a life like no other 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z The key may lie in "gabbling," the Irish word for what goes inside each of our minds. Scorecard From The Edge 2013-02-12T05:00:00Z This is the group of readers I address; they are the ones able to differentiate between gibble gabble and logical lines of thought. Greece's debt: A bail-out by any other name 2012-11-27T14:01:33Z Every story he told they laughed at, and said that it was impossible—that it was merely old woman's gabble, and other such things. Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z But most often of all the fault of monks and nuns lay in gabbling through the services as quickly as possible in order to get them over. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z “Now don’t encourage the young fellow to gabble in French,” Mrs. Gainsborough protested. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Decades of alcoholism and clinical depression have sheared a few gears off Feherty's gabbling machine. Scorecard From The Edge 2013-02-12T05:00:00Z To be sure, they never thought of it, at this late date; but how long would it take them to put two and two together, and to have the whole town gabbling and winking? A Captain of Industry Being the Story of a Civilized Man 2012-04-25T02:01:06.607Z The leaves of the green trees have tongues, drowned in the idle gabble of a foolish multitude, but heard in the calm quiet of the early morning. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z After one has known the satiety which comes from the mild gabble of society, there is a wonderful freshness in a war-whoop uttered in the depths of the wilderness! A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z When this excitement is over and she is tired of female gabble, she'll turn to you naturally, if you manage her properly and don't butt in too soon. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z To gabble over a form of prayer is not to pray. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z He nodded and gabbled some unintelligible Sioux or Cherokee in reply, and went all round the circle on his knees. There is no Death 2012-03-22T02:00:39.257Z This literature of gush and gabble is as dangerous to the morals of our time as the Ibsen plays or Æsop's fables. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Johnson derives it from the verb “to quack, or gabble like a goose.” Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z "There she weaves by night and day," read Allison, and then the five voices gabbled it all together, "There she weaves by night and day." The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 2012-02-22T03:00:28.473Z And sullenly, with stealthy gestures of menace, they retreated towards the entrance; and gabbling more loudly as they approached it, seemed to be imprecating vengeance on those who cast them out. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z If folks would only refrain, he thought, from gabbling about these Catholics, what a comfort it would be. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z The Viceroy drew a picture of a gallows on his paper, and gabbled of court-martials in an injured tone. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z And then the old lady, enchanted to have found a listener who would not interrupt her flow, gabbled on interminably about the condition of the capital. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z This much satisfactorily settled, they gabbled of other things. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Parties of negroes, men, women, and children, gather together in groups, worthy the illustrative pencil of Cruikshank, to gabble away their nancy stories, relate their quarrels, or discuss the other business of the day. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z So he merely held them there until the noisily gabbling humans should decide to take the matter out of his care. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z The scraps of poetry that stood cheek by jowl beside this gabble were infinitely more amusing to the critics. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z But he only saw that Miranda scrutinised his looks, and he only heard her gabbling of this triviality and that with a feverish vivacity. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z Excitement being contagious, the un-elect, who might not step within the sacred halls, laughed too and gabbled on the outer verandahs, showing their white teeth, and gossiping hopefully. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z In the former case it becomes alive, one is conscious of a personality; in the latter one thinks of an absent-minded clergyman gabbling through the Lessons in church. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z Then, one by one, the names were read again, and a charge against each was hastily gabbled over, which the prisoners scarcely heard and in nine cases out of ten did not understand. When a Cobbler Ruled a King 2012-01-15T03:00:13.430Z At last he came, with foot so lame, Where learned men talk heathen Greek, And Hebrew lore is gabbled o'er, To please the Muses,—twice a week. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z And all the gabble about good and bad and what-not-to-do and what-to-do, and all the laws and everything beginning from the beginning and going ahead as far as you wanted, it was all lies. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Somehow he could not catch Alice's eye as they passed; she was smiling an answer to some gabble of Lady May's. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z We hammered out the Constitution day and night for another fortnight, and then Ballester gabbled it over to a Council of his Ministers. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z I was aware that from such things I might, in the end, profit; but I'd get nothing, nothing in the world, from stereotyped sentiments and places and solemn gabbled information. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z A short time after midnight, her mother, being accidentally awake, and talking with her father, heard her, as she expressed, 'gabbling to herself in a dream.' Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z They all gabbled and wrote, painted and gabbled, and there was no difference to them. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z On a sudden there is a subsidence of the buzz and gabble within, and one voice, speaking almost at the pitch of a shriek, is heard declaiming. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z At this moment the old gentleman began to read, in a hurried gabble, what Charles Darwin had said in eighteen-seventy-six. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z "Guess none of us care much to sit up late, and gabble over the fire," suggested Toby; "though it seems a fellow can't get enough of that heat in him." Storm-Bound or, A Vacation Among the Snow Drifts 2011-12-17T03:00:14.840Z Her children were running about the garden, cackling and gabbling like parrots, while their unhappy mother watched them with a melancholy smile. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z As a contrast to these men, gabbling in her ear and fumbling with her hands, Basine had interested her at once. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z I gabbled it out fast and nervously, in a husky whisper, lest mamma's sharp ear should catch my proposal, and she should nip it in the bud. A Witch of the Hills, v. 1-2 2011-12-15T03:00:15.700Z Geese, reader, always remind me of those people we call sceptics: they are sure to gabble their loudest at things they can’t understand. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z In art it may so happen that the thing which a man makes endures to be misunderstood and gabbled over: yet it is not the man himself. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Mosgliakoff listened absently to all this senile gabble, and bit his nails with impatience. Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z An Ecclesiastic was hearing them;—they seemed ready enough with their answers, but were allowed to gabble off the holy words in a manner almost unintelligible, and quite indecorous. A Trip to Cuba 2011-12-05T03:00:49.610Z Gabble, gabble went the old crone's tongue, wiggle-waggle went her picturesque white cap--the only picturesque thing there was about her--up and down went her arms and hands. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z Surely imitation in the concrete is better for results than any amount of gabble in the abstract. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Every one sat round and gabbled except the Alcotts, who looked and laughed. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z You see there must be good life in me still when I can gabble so hard. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z It's what things are done, not who does them, that makes four-fifths of the gabble. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z Variable, some as harsh as those of No. 491, others like gabble of Magpie; others like Jays' common call a shrill, querulous, peeh, peeh; when on ground maintain a constant chatter. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Let the rest of us philosophers gabble, but don't mix us up with the interests of the art department as such! The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Well, the baby fascinated me so that I forgot a raging headache and forty gabbling women all in full clack. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z With this tide of gabble you will surely feel that I shall soon be at you again. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Then there came the crash of a glass, and the ringing of a bell, while still Miss Schwarz's voice gabbled on, shrill and guttural. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z "A confusion of low gabbling and chattering notes." Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z But when I first went to it—oh! the boys acted so horrid, and the girls gabbled so. The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery 2011-11-04T02:00:20.757Z They sang, gabbled, slept, and slapped one another at intervals, and were very amusing till they left, and another very handsome Booth-like priest took their places. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z She hardly ever cried to be taken up, but played with her bed-clothes and her toes, and gurgled and gabbled to herself until I chose to lift her into my bed. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z It seems an insult to one's Maker to gabble over prayers, with one's mouth full of food. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z I came to tell you that my nephew has started for Japan, and that he has promised me upon his oath that he will never speak again of what he gabbled so foolishly. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z Is it to run a little faster in a motor-car, to listen to gabble in a gramophone?—these are the toys of life. The Crime of the Congo 2011-10-13T02:00:47.603Z As I was standing in the middle of one of the busiest streets I suddenly heard a loud and dissonant gabbling, and glancing around beheld a number of wild-looking people, male and female. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z The lovely gabble of the cranes and the wild swans comes back to me whenever I think of the place. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z She gabbled off a chapter taken from any part of the book she chanced to open to first. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z But after I had been there half an hour I found I couldn’t understand a single word of the play, they gabbled it off so fast and made use of such p. 432peculiar expressions. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z With composure I the Closure Welcome—our sole saviour From the gabble of the rabble, And their bad behaviour. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2nd, 1893 2011-09-30T02:00:16.737Z You miserable, gabbling fools, did you think your Arm of Justice was her friend? "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z No, you can’t watch your footing and gabble at the same time. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z "Twelve noughts are nought," she said, in a gabbling whisper; "twelve noughts are nought, twelve fours are forty——" "All right," said Mr. Tredgold, who had been regarding this performance with astonished disapproval. The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 2011-09-21T02:00:33.023Z But no matter how slowly he ate, he was always through, wriggling uncomfortably on his chair and horribly bored, while those tedious grown-up people were still gabbling on. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z It was a woman, a gabbling laundress, who first told him of the rumor, and Mrs. Charlton saw him hastening to the telegraph office just as she had finished reading the letter. Trumpeter Fred A Story of the Plains 2011-09-15T02:00:11.393Z And, as he fell, I heard my Saguenay gabbling, "Brother! brother!" in my ears, and felt his hand timidly seeking mine. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z Many are ashamed of it even while duteously confessing it, and gabble over the sentences in their creed which acknowledge it in a very perfunctory manner. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z "I don't see what you young people can find to say so much about," he would say; or: "What was Warry gabbling about so long?" The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z Such assemblies, you might swear, Meet when butchers bait a bear: Such a noise, and such haranguing, When a brother thief is hanging; Such a rout and such a rabble Run to hear Jackpudding gabble. Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 2011-08-23T02:00:30.217Z More hinging and hanging—the same old Chinese gabble so tiresome to a white man's ears. The Bradys' Chinese Clew The Secrect Dens of Pell Street 2011-08-17T02:00:26.867Z Even the minutes when, as Mrs. Maynell writes, "your mother's visitor held you so long at his knee, while he talked to her the excited gabble of the grown-up," may have seemed very, very big. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z Jim, lying flat under the waggon, was much lower than I was, and—continuing his gabble to the other boys—saw nothing. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z Behind us circulated the usual menagerie-promenade of the "Grands," gabbling and whispering tremendous secrets in files of two and three. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z But that is no reason why we should gabble about it beforehand. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z He shuddered as he stood there listening to the gabble of the Chinamen, and wondering what his own fate might be. The Bradys' Chinese Clew The Secrect Dens of Pell Street 2011-08-17T02:00:26.867Z "Cluck, cluck, cluck aroo!" and the rabble are all at once up on their legs, And with ornithological gabble display their mysterious eggs. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z Shouts and cries, the beating of tomtoms, and shrill ear-piercing whistles, came from all sides; and through it all the dull hum of hundreds of human voices, all gabbling together. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z "I am gabbling like a novice of the first year, and withal to a couple of Protestants," he said, getting up and extending his hands, one to each, as was his habit. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z After all I'm not stone; I'm a woman—With all the world gabbling about you and your devotion—! Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z They sat out there on the porch and gabbled terribly. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z They were certainly not doing anything wrong from a moral standpoint, but they were giving Mrs. Grundy a chance to do a lot of gabbling. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z Jantje seemed to think it the best joke in the world and with constant squeals of laughter and graphic gestures gabbled off his account. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z They gabbled of drainage and water supplies, the suspension of rents and pawnbrokers' pledges for six months. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z But this gabble is not what I drew you out here for. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z "Hum! there is but little to be learned from an old woman's gabble," muttered old Henner. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z There is none of that senseless gabbling which is such a mark of Western civilisation, and which at times is so extremely confusing and even distressing. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z Jim’s excited gabble was addressed with reckless incoherence to Seedling, to me, and to Jock! Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z A few thin streaks of smoke rose from a number of white ash-heaps, two or three ringed crows croaked and gabbled hoarsely from a withered thorn, but there was no other sign of life. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z At our feet squatted a number of half-drunken people, gabbling away in a mixture of Nicobarese, Malay, and English; not all so stupid, however, that some could not detect the water in the tipple. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z Day after day strange visitants have been arriving from the north; and at nightfall, you may hear them quacking and screaming and gabbling for many miles along the shore. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z It was in vain to follow him, for he just gab, gabbled away like ane o' the stone masons at the tower of Babel. Amusing Prose Chap Books 2011-06-27T02:01:05.043Z Ruth slipped away easily after that, for the other girls were gabbling so fast over the invitation for the early summer vacation, that they did not notice her departure. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z They discoursed and gabbled at each other with prancing, overbearing tongues. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z They gathered 'round that Yoruba called Atiba, who's shaking some little seashells on a tray and chanting some of their gabble. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z The one by Monahan is amusing with its gabble about your "science." The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z The querulous cry of every gabbling goose From thousand-scented mudholes echoes o'er; The dogs and yawling cats have gotten loose And mock the hideous howls of hell once more. Hoosier Lyrics 2011-05-20T02:00:38.353Z Amid the gabble of the others, they seemed the only two cool persons in the party. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z The staircase that led to his waiting-room was crowded with lounging, clean-shaven men, and the waiting-room hummed with the voices of girls and women and more men, all gabbling at once. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z Walking beside the Squire's horse down to the road, followed by the gaping, gabbling crowd, who still, however, kept aloof, the Narragansett walked proudly erect. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z He listened awhile to the incoherent gabble of the agitators, and then startled their indecision by a direct proposition of his own. Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-16T02:00:19.270Z The self-stultification of folly, however, was never more evident than it is in the current gabble of the oligarchs about a “Southern literature.” The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z And so we lunched, And the music stormed, and lunchers gabbled, smoked, And dandies ogled. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z I gabbled all this out in a jerky, breathless way, pausing only to punctuate it with inane giggles and glances of alarm; and at the end made as if I were going to faint. By Wit of Woman 2011-04-13T02:00:13.247Z Then he turned to his men, gabbling fast them in Dutch, finally issuing an order to one of the men, which he went out to execute. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z No longer did the gabbling of countless ducks fill their ears when the pink sunsets tinted the Lake. The Adventures of Fleetfoot and Her Fawns 2011-04-03T02:00:18.337Z You must pay no attention to Mrs. Abbey’s unfeeling and ignorant gabble. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Alone in a canvas-bottom'd bunk, When gossip is gabbled, and toasts are drunk, Where Good Society's geese gregarious, Hiss malignant, or cackle hilarious! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 15th 1893 2011-03-26T02:00:12.713Z International football is powered by its sense of personal identification, the madness of gabbling macro-fandom. Latest episode of mad men will resume after Fabio Capello interlude 2011-03-26T00:12:00Z No, the parson didn't gabble lies over him. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z He didn't seem to know I was there, as he went gabbling on in a low voice very fast, and then he began to call the dog, Tiger. The Terror A Mystery 2011-03-22T02:00:24.957Z Do you wish to get my head cut off, gabbling like that before this man who perhaps awaits but the moment to settle me? The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z This and New England rum were the ordinary tipple of the multitude, and the prolific source of hilarity, maudlin gabble, and bickerings at bees, June trainings, and town meetings. Vermont A Study of Independence 2011-03-17T02:00:13.130Z A few words gabbled by the priest, and neither the one nor the other caring a pin's point about them. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z Nessa could gabble German quite as freely as I could; and once away from the capital, supplied with plenty of money as I was fortunately, we could try our luck and trust to fate. The Man Without a Memory 2011-03-09T03:00:45.963Z The well-meant gabble of the servant touched me to the quick. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z Of suns and worlds deuce one word can I gabble; I only know how men grow miserable. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z And as they gabbled on, as Alfred Whittaker frequently declared, nineteen to the dozen, Regina stood by and admired. The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o’er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z Why do you gabble about sublimity, then?——You know that that is humbug——sour grapes! The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood 2011-02-13T03:00:19.567Z Not vapid gabbling over the stale, worn-out cant, nor abuse of the enemy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z "We have had enough of your gabble!" continued the leader. Brother Against Brother The War on the Border 2011-02-09T03:00:46.430Z And whatever the subject of his ceaseless gabble—a very deluge of words—it was forced to come round at last to the times and seasons of the mails from England. The Blind Mother and The Last Confession 2011-02-03T03:00:11.867Z I intended to kick them aside as I rushed to the window and gabbled my tale to the guard. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z They must hear the fairy stories and the gabble of the medicine-men or conjurers, and the tales of bloody fights and brave and cunning deeds which make the histories of their tribes. Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas 2011-01-22T03:00:17.853Z "Then don't stand gabbling there, you little fool, but get in and pull the hound out!" exclaimed Mrs. Knox, who was balancing herself on a stone in the stream. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z Most women's gabble would have sent me to sleep in five minutes; but this was rather original, and interested me, especially when I found by the names mentioned that I knew one of the parties. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z C�line moaned aloud, with a bleating noise, and gabbled argot as she tidied the belongings which Mademoiselle had flung everywhere. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z Yeah!" he gabbled on, red to the ears, "you certainly are a wonder. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z As he broke away from the gabbling crowd and began to hunt noisily round the room for his papers, I gathered up my own chemistry notebook and started after him. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z His fists were clenched and he gabbled in the Romany tongue a string of what were evidently threats and vituperation. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z The meal being ended, the men lay and smoked long cheroots, and recommenced their light-hearted gabble of the morning. Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America 2010-12-20T17:12:20.420Z A young woman, with an elaborate coiffure of curls, rolls, and bangs, but no cap, approaches, darts a look of contempt at you, and, turning her back upon you, gabbles off in one breath: "Croutaupoturbotshrimpsauceroastbeefturkeycranberrysaucepotatoestomatoesspinachappletartmincepiecheesevanillacream." Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z We kissed again and again, and were once more laughing and gabbling together, when the servant returned with: "Please, my lady, his lordship went out about half an hour ago." Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z This was the moment in Osborne's otherwise polished peroration when he started to gabble, as the chancellor rushed through a series of technical announcements, the impact of which will be anything but technical. The Bullingdon boys want to finish what Thatcher began 2010-10-20T20:29:00Z Bryan gabbles uncontrollably, Casas says, about how it was to see his stepfather's brains spill out of his head that day. Special report: Mexico's growing legion of narco orphans 2010-10-06T14:12:00Z He also gabbled French and Italian, and played upon a thing like a sort of bass-fiddle without a bow, that they call a guitar. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 Among their seniors there was a great deal of gabble to very little purpose, with a preponderate share of bustle and agitation. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 Galva had listened as in a dream to the little black-robed sacristan, whose duty it was to show the burial-place to visitors, as he had gabbled through the history of the tragedy. The Princess Galva A Romance "If thy devil have no more intelligible gabble, cast him out, and call another." Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico In consequence of this there is a want of restraint, and a style that suggests a shy child gabbling a show bit of poetry. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History What on earth can they find to gabble about? The Valiants of Virginia Anticipatory gabble—one hears scattered fragments of conversation. The Wonderful Visit Win’s coming down with the fever, and’s no more to blame for doing the baby act than he’ll be when he gets the delirium, and gabbles.” Into the Primitive Old women, squatting on their doorsteps, their coarse wigs low upon perspiring foreheads, dozed and woke and gabbled to each other and dozed again. The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew I hope, my dear sir, you don't suppose I enjoy this insipid gabble. The Children of the World Two doors down, four girls were perched up on a trunk, kicking it with their patent-leather heels, and gabbling like magpies. Nancy of Paradise Cottage Steve introduced me round, and I like girls all right, but Susan's kind of spoiled me for the way most of them gabble. The Book of Susan A Novel And they would gabble and get angry until the ushers compelled them to stop, or some opportune joke from a comrade would bring them to their senses. Maximina During the last two evenings she mumbled and gabbled out her part in a way to provoke the audience. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second This is Lear's reply to the accusation of madness, when yet his intelligence was unclouded,—"I will the matter re-word, which madness would gabble from." Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) "Sing—gabble less concerning the Anointed of God," commanded Anthony Arpajon. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion The children sat in rows on hard wooden seats, or "forms," and gabbled their lessons aloud. Landseer A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation They might gabble in a corner to each other and simper and giggle and pretend, but they were ballet-hoppers. Carnival The actors gabbled through the last scenes in helpless unintelligible dumb-show. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second She sighed in a deep gust of relief and dropped her compelling eyes from his, murmuring in that strange, gabbling tongue what must have been thanks. The Tree of Life In the middle of the floor, still gabbling into the phone, stood a lumpy, pallid woman about his own age, naked except for a pillow which she hugged fiercely to her navel. Forsyte's Retreat He heard him gabbling, gabbling on and on to himself, and every now and again he would start up and gaze fixedly into the night. The Three Mulla-mulgars They never stop; it's gabble, gabble, gabble right along, like a nest of young rooks!' The Golden Age What could have gotten into that gabbling old fool to seek out one who despised him and his kind? Warrior of the Dawn No you won't, you'll start now; and don't you lose any time about it, neither, nor do any gabbling by the way. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade He does not see these things with the gabbling exclamatories of a tourist. The Story of the Trapper The fat woman was already stepping down from the stage as she gabbled the final bars of her supposedly risky French song. Command Prate ye to fools," the incensed Monarch cries, "Nor gabble longer of your hidden Lord; Who follows in his wake, this moment dies, And Isis and eternal keep my word. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation And then we turn aside and go on again with our society gabble. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. Of course when they got to snoring we had a long gabble, and I told Jim everything. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade Liberty for them was not a frothy gabble of insincere verbiage, but a clear and concrete condition of body and soul. Captain Macedoine's Daughter I thought so, but those girls gabble like ducks. Leonore Stubbs It was our silence; the sleek cars and burly trucks made their noise and the pedestrians added their gabble, but a good Stanislavsky actor like Lou wouldn't notice that. The Old Die Rich I didn't know what his gabbling about "thinking his gun into his hand" meant—at least not then, I didn't—but I sure wasn't minded to question him on it. The Draw Aloft in heaven, themselves in night invisible, the gabble of a cloud of wild geese is sublime. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) But, dear heart! how I do go on gabbling without ever coming to the point. Eyes Like the Sea "Anything want grinding, rivetting or soldering, anything to mend?" he gabbled off, lifting his cap an inch from his forehead. Ditte: Girl Alive! Take great care, for Fridolinus May be listening to your gabbling. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. The congregation fell to its knees, and the curate, rolling his eyes to see who was in church, began gabbling the morning prayers—'Dearly beloved brethren.'... Orientations Two incidents alone relieved the dead level of idiocy and incomprehensible gabble. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers Luckily, the place was empty, save for two elderly French women, who gossiped and gabbled with their heads close together on a sofa in a corner. The House by the Lock And though the doctor frowned majestically and strode by the gabbling hussy without a word, it gave him an uncomfortable start to hear her words. Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. Meanwhile he overlooks, while he gabbles on, the very entries he wants to find, and spends twice the time he would if he had proceeded more leisurely. Talkers With Illustrations His pedantry accords better with didactic pomp than with illiterate and vulgar gabble; his learning engrafted on romantic tradition or classical history, looks like genius.... Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature He gave wine to nourish wit, not to furnish an opportunity for ostentatious gabble about age and price. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 I forgot, in my enthusiasm, that it was Walt who listened, I who gabbled. Ivory Apes and Peacocks In the face of a general gabble they seemed to remain indifferently silent, self-contained and aloof. Gold The ducks have just had their daily souse and are quacking and gabbling in a mighty way outside the door of the captain’s deck cabin, where I write. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 He gabbled half incoherently his allegiance to his captor, his love for him, his willingness to do this, that, anything—only, not the Deep Place—prease! Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story How they will gabble when the curates come in, and how weary I shall grow with listening to them! Shirley There are others of whom the bloody trade makes 112 gabbling fools, light-headed, wild-eyed wasters of words, full of the importance of their mind-wrecking deeds. The Rustler of Wind River He never has the disgusting technical jargon, or the undisciplined fluency, of the mere art critic, any more than he has the gabble of the mere connoisseur. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Occasionally, they gabble a phrase without understanding its meaning, and as they speak, gaze vacantly into the auditorium. Letters from my Windmill An instant later he was pawing the hunchback, and gabbling gladly, "Billy, Billy!" Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story Tea was a long time in progress; all the guests gabbled as their hostess had expected they would. Shirley Carmen’s spirits sank, as, without reply, she submitted to the banal boredom of this blustering dame’s society gabble. Carmen Ariza I am doing my best to live peaceably and comfortably in the same house with her, and you don’t help me a bit with your gabble. That Mother-in-Law of Mine And so was drawn thro dark cadaverous with the sound of gabbling dead. Nirvana Days They kept up an incessant gabble, and the temptation to have a shot at them was very great; but, considering the reindeer, we thought it best to leave them in peace. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I It was no gift but the confusion of tongues which has gabbled me deaf as a post. Shirley A flock of geese, startled from a mud-puddle through which the coach dashes on, rush away with outstretched necks, and wings at their widest, and a great uproar of gabble. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 It's twenty minutes past noon," Mrs. Smallweed would at once begin to gabble: "Twenty pence! Tales from Dickens Duckie in the out-house quacked and gabbled as she had quacked and gabbled since the light began, yet no one came to let her out and feed her. Robinetta They gabbled and waddled away down through the mud and soon took wing. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I "What a fool Martin is, to be always gabbling about what he does not understand!" Shirley Does me good to hear your nonsense gabble again. Jessica, the Heiress Of all lines of babble This one has the call: Picture gallery gabble Is the best of all. A line-o'-verse or two Then Duckie was released and fed and departed to gabble her wrongs to the other white ducks that were preening themselves amongst the deep green grass of the adjacent orchard. Robinetta That's real work," Henry murmured to himself, "and a lot better than gabbling about Ireland's soul as if it were the only soul in the world! Changing Winds A Novel "It is my privilege, as a freeman, to gabble on whatever subject I like," responded Martin. Shirley They gabbled among themselves and wagered on the verdict. Life Sentence The gallery gabble Is the best of all. A line-o'-verse or two The grand march had become a jostling, gabbling chaos. The Million-Dollar Suitcase "Two big men like that gabbling like a couple of priest-smitten flappers!" said Gilbert in disgust as he listened to them. Changing Winds A Novel "With rings on their fingers, an' bells on their toes," gabbled Ump; "an' we know where they are." Dwellers in the Hills The partners by this time were leaning eagerly forward, half-inclined to believe all that had been told them, yet willing to discount the gabbling 82 of the old man and find content. The Plunderer They immediately began to gabble, hastily putting away their instruments; while from without entered a crazy stream of women weeping, laughing, and scolding. Melomaniacs “Oh, I would not take that gabble of a priest seriously if I were you,” he suggested. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine “Come, stop your gabble, you boys!” blustered the doughty engineman, speaking to everybody and with a show of authority. The Mountain Divide Voices were gabbling noisily and quite a crowd was gathered at the main entrance. The Spoilers of the Valley Now I suppose that music and my gabble have started the mill, and we shall have nothing else during the rest of the day than the same old weepings and wailings and gnashings of teeth. Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 The train rounded the curve and, leaving behind the strange looking theatre, surely a hieratic symbol of Wagner's power, entered the station full of gabbling, curious people—Bayreuth at last. Melomaniacs Man, that’s nothing you want to be gabbling to a stranger. Rim o' the World He knew all about the preliminary gabble of a fight and took no interest in it. Nan of Music Mountain "I wish she'd come on home and not gabble so much." In a Little Town I will stop your grumbling before I have done with you, by a remedy a little worse than the disease—plenty of my own gabble! Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 Madame Stock drove a hard bargain, and, during the chaffering and gabble about dates and terms, Hilda went out for a long walk. Melomaniacs It seems so stupid that because we went into a dingy office and gabbled a few words we shouldn't be able to be together.... Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists Well, he gabbled on so, and not one of us gave him a hearing. The House Under the Sea A Romance And all the time the gabble of the women mocked at the silence of death. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India “With gossip and gabble is built neither house nor stable!” said the Pig. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales The word "going," rapidly gabbled, gives the impression of a mechanical drill, biting its way irresistibly into some hard substance. The Practice of Autosuggestion There were lights, movement, a storm of people all gabbling away in a foreign tongue. The First Violin A Novel At the far corner, opposite Miss Ruth's own apartment, the Italian came to a halt and began to gabble again. The House Under the Sea A Romance We just gabbled about you all the time. Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall or Solving the Campus Mystery Above every sound––above the cries and clatter and gabble––rang the fighting English of Bill o’ Burnt Bay. Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys Such government as existed was one of gabble. Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight Then, as though galvanized into action, he began to gabble his inevitable oaths, while he leaped hurriedly for his rifle. Louisiana Lou A Western Story He cracked his bony fingers many times, and began to gabble away vociferously in his own language—a tongue I like the sound of, but which no right-minded man should talk. The House Under the Sea A Romance The voices, all speaking so fast, gabbling like a flock of turkeys, made him dizzy. Shaman He purchased a cage of three geese, but he noticed that one of the geese did not quack and gabble like the others. Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden "Monter au chameau!" he cries excitedly, going off into a gabble of French and beseeching us to take him with us as "boy." Round the Wonderful World I s'pose all trees look alike to city gals, but don't stop to gabble. The Brass Bound Box So they each began again to knock, and bark, and mew, and squeak, and chirp, and gabble, as hard as ever they could; all crowding round the door in a bunch. Baby Nightcaps How could I oppose, after you had been gabbling and cackling about it to the whole Court, and it had even reached the ears of the people? In Brief Authority It was the fashion that year to shrug when art was mentioned—reaction from too much gabble. The Dark Star They are talking under their breath, as English folk do in foreign churches, heedless of the loud gabble and resonant results of too much snuff on the part of ecclesiastics off duty. Somehow Good "You don't mean to tell me you were able to make her gabble a bit?" she queried contemptuously. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas I meant this time to thoroughly convince Buckhurst of my ability to gabble platitude. The Maids of Paradise They seemed to be holding a meeting overhead at which each one—and they were a multitude—tried to gabble out a speech and to make himself heard above all the others. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Here we are gabbling about dress when we've plenty of important things to talk over. The Invader A Novel Everybody knew that the rector’s heart was not in his words; for he never gabbled the prayers and hurried through the service as he was doing to-night. The Scarlet Feather Pass a law to that effect and take a vote, or else forever stop—close up all gabble on this subject, that women do not want it. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Busy as it was fleets of swans were sailing upon its smooth surface, the noise of their gabble mingling agreeably with the song of the watermen. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls Our usual amount of editorial matter is again crowded out this morning by the extreme quantity of gabble the Woman's Righters got off yesterday. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I It is nearing the time when we must go home, for father has had to-day to listen to an unparalleled amount of gabble and is very tired.” The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton But I gabbled lightly about a certain feminine party who was keen on exemplars of the genuine thing in the line of the manly art. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 He disappeared through the aperture in the wall, and Mother Dolores, after inspecting Myra appraisingly and admiringly, gabbling away in Spanish idioma meanwhile, indicated to the fair prisoner that she wished her to accompany her. Bandit Love To complete his strange appearance, Captain Flint sat perched upon his shoulder and gabbled odds and ends of purposeless sea-talk. Treasure Island He stepped to the switch-board, and, after going through a series of genuflections, accompanied by an undertone of carelessly gabbled ritual, he depressed a lever. The Doomsman "I was cross and sleepy and chilly and nervous," Brunner explained, "and the boy's gabble rested me." McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Baskets of food were driven to the scene; the fires under the great, iron kettles were kept replenished; everybody stirred the bubbling sap, ate, gabbled; the young people even danced on the grass. Mountain Blood A Novel Dolores scuffled out, still gabbling unintelligibly in Spanish, but reappeared almost at once with a jug of hot water. Bandit Love Would that the will had been destroyed! then there would have been no talk about the “second-best bed” and the like insane gabble. Old Familiar Faces What with them all gabbling at once, and the tapping noise made with the wood, god Fo appeared more likely to have his attention distracted than otherwise. Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery As regards silent people, this characteristic may, of course, be mere result of sloth and shyness, or lack of habit of the world, and they may be gabbling volubly in their hearts. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life The whole business of the meeting to him, therefore, appeared nothing but gabble, treason, and folly. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 Then she poured out coffee, gabbled something about the "bueno maestro," and withdrew. Bandit Love I played badly—I never can play when they gabble. A Village of Vagabonds One does not gabble the common-places of life when in the presence of the supreme in art. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley It is this I have suffered from, as, I suspect, have many thousands of my fellows, to whom life is real and earnest, and gabble not its goal. Penguin Persons & Peppermints He was in good spirits; ready to join his “Squad” beside the fountain and have an evening’s “gabble” with the youngsters. Dorothy on a Ranch Holla! my young prince," screamed the old woman; "you are gabbling away there, as though you had quite lost your little bit of an understanding. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Put two gabbling women like that together and you could never tell what stories would be set going about you before evening! Virginia Why they beat a quilting bee for gabbling, except that they didn’t all talk at once.” Far Past the Frontier But I don't want you to gabble about where you found me sleeping.' The Grain Ship Her nerves all a-jangle from trail-strain and the depressing atmosphere of the Watts ranch, it seemed to Patty she must shriek aloud if the woman persisted in her ceaseless gabble. The Gold Girl Dan flushed, but opened the book and began—gabbling a little—at ‘The Discoverer of the North Cape.’ Puck of Pook’s Hill "Pretty, pretty," he gabbled, leering at Leyden and prodding that fuming gentleman in the ribs with a hard finger. Gold Out of Celebes Still, it is as well to dispose of this kind of butter quietly, to avoid gabble among ill-speakers. The House with the Green Shutters Mackintosh, says Mill, uses 'macaroni phrases,' 'tawdry talk,' 'gabble'; he gets 'beyond drivelling' into something more like 'raving'; he 'deluges' us with 'unspeakable nonsense.' The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill He all runs to books and gabble, and goes 'round repeatin' poetry, which is only the lies of crazy folks. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk A sensation of urgency, almost of despair, had come through the gabble of alien words, the quick sequence of diagrams and pictures. The Defiant Agents Himself facing the hideous gigantic head with its long jaws and gleaming eyes, he flung himself suddenly upon his knees and commenced a gabbled prayer. The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason Thereupon he joined himself to the sect of the Arians, and, by his quick parts, soon learnt to gabble the unintelligible jargon of theology and metaphysics. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom You were reciting some gabble on the steps a little bit ago. Tabitha at Ivy Hall Quite contrary to his established custom, Herr Carovius failed to show the slightest interest in her gabble; at least he made no concessions to her. The Goose Man That meant stiff white Eton collars, and texts gabbled between mouthfuls of porridge; and, later, our three small bodies arrayed in short surplices, and the long service in the Cathedral. Explorers of the Dawn He clung to the bow of the canoe, and gabbled anew for mercy. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest I gabble the conventional small-talk of polite sociability, and I thank God when they are gone! Over the Fireside with Silent Friends “I should think so, sir; but it’s just like those Johnny Crapauds—always gabbling a lot about nothing!” rejoined the commander, who, at last, had now found the right page of the signal book. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant A certain wealthy planter living near had five or six score of French or Spanish negroes, with a dwarfish stature and a gabble like so many geese. History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service Thus the local gabble of the acquaintances and friends of the pretty widow. The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 We reached the Warra Swamp at noon, and camped for dinner in a shady "bangalow" grove, so as not to disturb the ducks, whose delightful gabble and piping was plainly audible. The Call Of The South 1908 Do you think I would speak so openly in order that you might tell all the world with your gabbling tongue? The Opal Serpent A young man was marching by her side, a young man who gabbled without ceasing and to whom Mary chattered again with an equal volubility. Mary, Mary “What’s all this gabble?” grumbled the captain, thrusting his red and whiskered face out of the cabin. Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate It was a droll sight—red, blue, and bright yellow in their costume, and such a gabbling! Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) It is the faint, musical gabble of the wild ducks, as they swim across the lake. The Call Of The South 1908 In a short time, upwards of a hundred were killed; the remainder still continuing gabbling and squalling as loud as ever. The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews. What chattering and gabbling there was that first morning at breakfast, when all sorts of plans were projected for the summer's amusement! Cricket at the Seashore The speckled honey-suckers, yellow and black, chirped and gabbled up among the trees. A Boy's Voyage Round the World I gabble like an old woman, do I not, Miss Fraser? Tom Gerrard But certain girls, like Grace Montgomery among the freshmen, and the dressier girls of the 206older classes, gabbled a deal more than was good for them about their “figures,” and studied the fashion-plates too much. A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall Directly they were seen, the birds set up a loud concert of squeaking, squalling, and gabbling. The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews. The professional entertainment began on the little stage amid a universal gabble which made it impossible for anything save pantomime to be intelligible beyond the footlights. The Root of Evil Some were prolix, others confined themselves to a sentence; one or two talked unintelligible gabble. The Gods are Athirst Oh, I'm all right, and must gabble a bit, now I know that I haven't lost an eye. Tom Gerrard The winter wind is not so cold As the bright smile he sees me win, Nor the host's oldest wine so old As our poor gabble, sour and thin. The Book of Humorous Verse She was tired of the running in of the girls who had taken Blue Bonnet up; their incessant gabble; their whispered conversations during the visiting hour. Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's Ready and sharp is he for a joke, cold and unfeeling in manner, and troublesome as the varlet blackbirds that sit on a tree and gabble and moot, while other birds give you music. Summerfield or, Life on a Farm The Pagans hear—and stay their gabbling mirth. La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier Count Turkey expanded the finery that bound him, And gabbled high Dutch to the people around him. The Peacock 'At Home' AND The Butterfly's Ball AND The Fancy Fair The stately reserve, the personal dignity and decency of manners which distinguished the Prince, contrasted favourably with the gabble and indecorum of his father. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 The dog accompanied the guests as far as the door of his kennel, sniffing all the time at the heels of the stranger, whilst the gabbling Mekipiros tugged away at its chain. The Day of Wrath The Conservatives rejoiced in this, seeming to think that the only real evil under which the country was suffering was the 'gabbling' of the members of the diet. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy It took all Cargrim's tact and politeness and Christianity to endure patiently her gabble. The Bishop's Secret Men folks are worse than women about gabbling. Heart of Gold After breakfast, we went to the Casino, to play tennis, listen to the concert, or pretend to, and to gabble. Lady Betty Across the Water Or was it, after all, but the many-voiced gabble of the flames above his head? The Day of Wrath "It must have acted as a fine check, though, on people who just wanted to gabble." Ted and the Telephone The market, close by which we lay, was, being Sunday morning, crowded by a chequered assemblage of European, Quadroon, Negro, and Indian, all gabbling, pushing, and purchasing in company. Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. Johnny was nearly bursting his jacket in his eagerness to publish his knowledge; so to Peace's immense gratification and relief, he gabbled off his version of Ganymede's experience with Jupiter's eagle. Heart of Gold I thanked them all, and was greatly relieved; and now there was no end to the gabble, which nearly made us forget the cause which had first broken the stillness. Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island The child is delirious, he is gabbling terrible things, his features wear a different expression every instant. The Day of Wrath When we approached the spot they set up a loud gabbling, and spouted out an oily substance at us. A Voyage round the World A book for boys Some, however, took warning from the fate of their companions; but while those at a distance gabbled and screeched louder than ever, those in the front waddled boldly up to the assault. Old Jack "Sounds 's if they were learning their multiplication tables," she giggled, "and when they all get to gabbling at once,—that's the Chinese of it." Heart of Gold In an instant the court resounded with a chattering call to her companions, so that, before I could turn, the whole band of gabbling parrots hemmed me in with a deluge of talk. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Read it, if you please, and slowly; I could not bear to have my cousin's letter gabbled over. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden They believed in a vigorous prosecution of the war, and were sick of "the never-ending gabble about the sacredness of the Constitution." Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 As we advanced, we were assailed by the most frightful gabbling, and screeching, and quacking I ever heard, from thousands and thousands of wild-fowls, chiefly penguins of various species. Old Jack The natives gabbled to each other, and I heard the words frequently repeated, "Sorillo's messenger!" At the Point of the Sword Yet there I have seen a company of travelers spend their half-hour in senseless gabble and banter and the laughter of fools. The Chief End of Man It is true that I sent some of my people to France, in order to learn what was going on; but they stole my money, and only treated me with the gabble of the canaille. Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I Listen to the senseless gabble, see the last trace of intelligence dashed out from faces made in God's own image. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony She knows better than to prepare for the great day of her life by gabbling half the night. An American Suffragette "I move we get thawed out while we gabble," she proposed, with her deep, husky chuckle. Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge An odd rumour up the way; I heard it first from that gabbling man Spencer at the Inns. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure The doomed man gabbled a prayer under his breath at galloping speed, the words tumbling one over the other. The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography The fellow—a sort of prefect in a tricolour sash—had us up in a room before him, and gabbled through some form of words that not one of us rightly understood. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales So they all gabbled as they danced, and Unktomi, dancing among them, commenced twisting off the necks of the fattest of the geese and ducks and swans. Myths and Legends of the Great Plains Every one was gabbling and curious, so feeling I could do no good, I went below. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance As to visiting you, I will do so with pleasure if you think it necessary, but I dread, on your account as well as my own, the newspaper talk and gabble that will follow. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. How much nicer he is than a gabbling Italian, or a Frenchman who compliments you one minute and behaves like a brute the next! Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag The gabbled rosary, the low laughter in the kitchen, the clink of glasses, the howling of the cailleach—all these noises repulsed him like a forefront of battle. The Wind Bloweth "What a gabble the old geezer makes," Hare-Lip remarked, when, the teeth all extracted, they began an attempt at equal division. The Scarlet Plague "Then you can't make more out of it than you can by spending it gabbling with the crowd." Frank Merriwell's Races "Take that to the lady who has just gone in, at once," gabbled Flower; "hurry up." A Master Of Craft And I'd like to gabble with you for an hour or two. The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot Slumber-Town Tales Scanning Mr. Grimes more narrowly, she faintly remembered him, and the unpleasant, nasal-toned voice which had gabbled through her marriage settlement. Agatha's Husband A Novel They were very quick and abrupt in their actions, and their speech, in moments of hot discussion over the allotment of the choicer teeth, was truly a gabble. The Scarlet Plague The confusion of Babel did not surpass the present gabble of a West-India market. Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer Then I went below and gabbled them to Hendrik, not more than half wrong, for he seemed to understand. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon Competitive Examination takes for its norma: 'It is better to learn many things ill than one thing well'; or rather: 'It is better to learn to gabble about everything than to understand anything.' Gryll Grange The outcome of their gabble was that mob violence destroyed for Paris in the Bastille what London possesses in the Tower, an 'architectural document' of the highest authenticity and importance. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 “Forward!” was the word given, and they moved on, the black soldiers, grinning and gabbling negro French, running by their sides. Sunshine Bill Jack was beginning to speak French pretty well, and Bill was able to gabble away with considerable fluency, greatly to the delight of Jeannette, who was his usual instructress. From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure “Farther in—farther in,” a shrill voice cried, making itself heard over the gabble of fifty others. Patience Wins War in the Works Then, stamping about in the boat, his words came forth more rapidly, but in quite a confused gabble, of which hardly a single word was comprehensible. The Black Bar But no flight of arrows rattled among the boughs, and all we heard was the gabble of excited voices. Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah In a minute or so they had reached the water-side, and stopped to listen; but they could hear nothing but the gabbling and quacking of the water-fowl. In Honour's Cause A Tale of the Days of George the First Having gabbled these words he winked at Kate, and fled swiftly. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 “Just like a pack of gabbling old women, you mean!” exclaimed Eric. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes It’s rude to gabble!” she told herself resentfully. Pixie O'Shaughnessy "Listen to 'em gabble like a pack of old women," laughed Jack, as the friendly argument about the crackling fire grew more heated. The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain Then what in the hell are you gabbling about? Ten From Infinity Maundrels, vagaries, especially those of a person in delirium, or the disjointed gabble of a sleeper. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 They chatter like birds and gabble like geese, without the trouble of thinking. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. But all grossly, stupidly, automatically gabbling about getting the love-service running again, the trains booked for the New Jerusalem well on the way once more. Fantasia of the Unconscious The effort was not a success; Schumann found Vienna no less trivial in its tastes than many other places, and wrote home that people could "gabble and gossip quite as much as in Zwickau." Woman's Work in Music Well," laughed Miss Chipchase, "it is past twelve; and if Todborough Rectory is to keep its character, we must be off to bed and listen no more to your Suffolk gabbling. Belles and Ringers I have gabbled on so long that there is scarce room for my quotation. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 But at this point the English language failed the Hare, who sank upon his knees, wringing his hands and gesticulating wildly, as he gabbled, nobody knew what, in Italian. Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War When the people around him gabbled and pointed their fingers and piled up the same old adjectives he glanced around at them timidly and then stepped softly away where he could gaze without being interrupted. The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs Then you have been gabbling your ill looking stories about my larder, you stone eater! John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts The geese waddled, gabbling over the grassy fields, biting the young green herbage. Strife and Peace If you have patience with me you may hear something of importance; otherwise, if there is skating down your way don't miss it—fresh air is always healthier than esthetic gabbling. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques These men, then, were Acadians—the boy also, for he gabbled freely to them. The Mermaid A Love Tale There was such a clatter and a chatter, such gabbling and babbling, such hammering and banging and laughing and crying, and hurry and scurry and rush that it was enough to drive one crazy. Piccaninnies I hastily imitated the gesture Kyral had made, gabbling a few words of an archaic charm. The Door Through Space She was aware of statements being made in language which rang familiarly in her ears, but they had no more coherence in her clogged understanding than the gabble of dementia. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York I learn that sort of gabble by heart. The Captain of the Kansas "Confound you for a meddling, gabbling idiot!" cried Hawker suddenly. The Third Violet "She will have no word to say to any of them," gabbled Maria. The Stowaway Girl An audience of a hundred souls would infallibly have gabbled their way through the silence that would naturally gather round those tones. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 All do not gabble in the Parliament of a Kingdom, as in the Congress of a Democracy. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Lunch at the huts was a hasty meal, with a gabble of full-mouthed and excited talking. Omnilingual I was dying to go to sleep, but the others were as chirpy as possible, gabbling Cornish legends. Set in Silver Introspection and self-revelation are his habit; he carries the study of man and fate to a point that seems morbid to westerners; he is forever gabbling about what he finds in his own soul. A Book of Prefaces He must be accustomed to living on mountain tops—and to looking upon the wretched gabble of politics and nationalism as beneath him. The Antichrist I was afraid if I gabbled as I longed to do, Father might take it into his head that the child had better stop at home. Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley She was the only woman in Homeburg who could "look in" on an afternoon gabble of any kind for a few minutes and get away with it without insulting the hostess. Homeburg Memories But of course you have duties to look after, even though you might not be glad to escape an old man's gabble. An Arkansas Planter Such childish gabble one looks for in the New York Times, and there is where one actually finds it. A Book of Prefaces It is made up of a strange jumble of Eastern languages, grafted on a debased kind of French, and gabbled with the rapidity of lightning and a great deal of gesticulation. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. They idled, fiddled, danced, gabbled, gadded and gossiped. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Or we may see now and then wretched election meetings, as of late in New York, where a worn-out Fernando Wood and others like him gabble as much treason as they dare. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy I call it gabble, but I know it to be wisdom. An Arkansas Planter You hear a funny alternation of educated and uneducated English on all sides of you, and loud French gabbling of all sorts. Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Our great Shakspeare has grown none in the passing centuries—comes from the empyrean to gabble like a dotard of the visions of his youth? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Dane gabbled two trading formulas under his breath and tried to think of the relation of Samantine rock coinage to galactic credits. Voodoo Planet An unearthly gabble of strange water-fowl broke out suddenly, was kept up for a few seconds only, and then ceased. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett They were all screaming and crying and whimpering and gabbling and gibbering together, and they all fell and sprawled together in a heap before the King. Fairies and Folk of Ireland I must have snoozed; yet, I caught the gabble. Krindlesyke She wished to rid herself of this uncalled-for gabble, in order that she might devote herself to her own thoughts. The Poor Plutocrats "It is not my custom to gabble about your affairs." The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 Only once in the night did Arlington hear that demoniac gabble; but he lay awake for hours expecting and dreading to hear it again. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett And there was the loon upon the lake gabbling his welcome to the approaching winter. The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family "What's this gabble to do with me?" broke in Sally, disdainfully. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' "You travel with the beasts—" the alien's accusation came crisply while the others gabbled. Star Born Perchance he drives the merry-go-round whose track Is the zodiac; His name is No-man’s-friend; And his gabbling parrot-talk has neither trend, Beginning, nor end. Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen I'm afraid it was," agreed Miss Mitty briskly; "they never appeared a well-matched couple; he, so reserved and aristocratic, and she such a gabbling, fluffy, restless creature—crazy about bridge and dress. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma The others hallooed a welcome and gabbled out Indian words from a guide-book. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark Mrs. Grandcourt, still gabbling away, turned to greet new arrivals, merely switching to another subject without interrupting her steady stream of outrageous talk. The Danger Mark From the earphones Soriki had left on the seat the gabble had risen to a screech and one part of Raf's brain noted that the sounds were repetitious: was an order to surrender being broadcast? Star Born At the words M. Radisson turned sharply; but the heedless fellow gabbled on. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade I talk to them in English—they gabble to me in German, and we make an awful clatter. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma At noon next day Hollister left the mess-house table and went out to sit in the sun and smoke a pipe beyond the Rabelaisian gabble of his crew. The Hidden Places When they stepped from the escalator, the hall was crowded with office people, gabbling excitedly in groups; they all stopped talking as soon as they saw what was coming. Little Fuzzy And now he mouthed a gabble of words which was echoed by his fellow sitting with Soriki. Star Born As for Godefroy, he was marching abreast of the braves gabbling a mumble-jumble of pleadings and threats, which, I know very well, ignored poor Jack. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade At the moment, they were all sitting on or around the desk in the corner of the store-room, going over the inventory when they were not just gabbling. Genesis He loved to hear the French gabble to him in their excited way; he never thought that reciprocally his talk was just as funny. "Contemptible", by "Casualty" It was all done very deliberately, and through it all her formidable gaze held the Portugee at arm's length, till his gabbled insults died out and left him armed only with scowls. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories What surprised him was the number of human beings clambering over the steps, running and gabbling like a lot of animals let loose from their cages. Visionaries A log broke on the coals with a flare that painted Le Borgne's evil face fiery red; and the fellow gabbled on, with figure crouching stealthily forward, foxy eye alight with evil, and teeth glistening. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade Long before he reached the store he could hear the gabble of excited voices, and loud peals of rough laughter. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel Of nothing am I fonder than the sparkle of a friend's eye, and the gabble of half an hour, or three hours. The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future He bad got as far as "Thine is the kingdom, the power"—no farther— when Mr. Newman stirred, and he gabbled the words to an end hastily before he opened his eyes. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories The gabble in this close apartment was terrific. Visionaries At that, with a deal of unguarded gabbling, they must hail us inside for refreshments, while half a dozen men ran in the direction Godefroy pointed with the food for their master. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade The sensation there, however, was immense; and Mistress Dorothy heard the gabble and laughter fast and furious behind her until she reached the hall. The House by the Church-Yard In passing over Taurus, the geese always carry stones in their mouths, and thus by bridling their gabbling tongues they safely cross the mountain infested with eagles, without being discovered by their foes. Infelice Somebody had ceased to sleep in the tent, and was gabbling drowsily, in a monotonous sing-song. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories And, over all, an unseen sick man gabbled his prayers in a halting monotone. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 Lord Stowell waved his hand to the clerk with the ragged gown; the book passed from hand to hand along the faces of the jury, the clerk gabbling all the while. Romance "The geese, by their gabbling, saved Rome from destruction." Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Or household prayer, these words were touched upon, Pert visions would intrude of gabbling fowls Mid splashing water, sedge, and lily stars. My Beautiful Lady. Nelly Dale They talked incessantly—an utterly foolish gabble like that of young birds. By the Light of the Soul A Novel To a logical mind there is something very distressing in this social law of gabble. Certain Personal Matters This wasn't as high-handed as it sounds, for Cockney had the gall one afternoon to leave the deck during his watch out, and break into my watch's rest with his obscene gabble. The Blood Ship Thus they gabbled in the bazaars, round braziers and dung fires. The Adventures of Kathlyn All the Mexicans from here down to Rosita are gabbling about your canal. The Iron Furrow |
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