| 单词 | gibber |
| 例句 | For a moment she stared incredulous, as if he had begun to gibber in an unknown tongue-"Stannis and Renly are fighting each other!" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z More astonishing, perhaps, was the fact that time travel hadn’t broken my brain; that by some miracle, I had not yet devolved into a gibbering crazy person ranting on a street corner. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Then the wail rose, remote and unearthly, and turned to an inarticulate gibbering. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Henry—imagining, perhaps, some trembling Kassandra gibbering prophecies to a chorus of policemen—was far more concerned about the psychic. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The crazed creature had cut a swathe through the middle of a vineyard, turned a stone wall to rubble, and left a guard dog gibbering under a hedge. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z And the uncles, the aunts, the cousins, the nieces, the nephews, that lived in those walls, the gibbering pack of tree-apes that said nothing, nothing, nothing and said it loud, loud, loud. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is it men, or what? There’s nothing to be seen, heard or smelled. Come on, tell us something and stop gibbering, there’s a good chap.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought passed through Kaz’s mind in a humiliating, gibbering wave of panic, then the phantom was upon him, and he felt the sharp jab of a needle in his neck. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He has puzzled the greatest medical minds, and sent many of them gibbering to their own hospitals. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He growled and gibbered at them like a witch hare and those nearest to him fell back in fear. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Her parents must have been captured, once, held in iron cages above seething fire pits while their enemies gibbered around them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The twins had grabbed each other and were gibbering. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Buckland ended up by losing his mind and finished his days a gibbering wreck in a lunatic asylum in Clapham, not far from where Mantell had suffered his crippling accident. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There was a noise then, from the desert, from far away, a distant howl, and the ghouls gibbered and they huddled closer to the flames. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z They panted up, white-faced, and began gibbering out their tale of terror. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z His hands and feet threshed in the tangle of the wild grapevine, and he whimpered and gibbered as he tried to get up. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z She was surrounded by the forces of night, heard but not seen: the gibbering of coyotes and the howling of wolves and the screaming of owls, which were said to carry an evil spirit. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The sounds were muffled, but continued: the haunted wind lamenting, the house shuddering, an increasing assortment of shrieks, screams, howls, and wild bursts of gibbering laughter. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He stood shaking and gibbering to himself, until with a rush the wind came upon them, hissing and snarling over the marshes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling, gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z On the spacecraft, he’s forced to watch a movie about the entirety of human history, and things slide toward gibbering insanity until Schrauwen concludes with a deadpan tribute to his art form. A Long Visit to Weimar-Era Berlin Through an Epic Graphic Novel 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z It's all quite predictable: in fact, you know how good an act is going to be from the build-up, and by Ant and Dec's gibbering in the wings. The weekend's TV 2010-04-19T09:45:00Z And when combined – as it is to devastating effect in Agora – with mob violence, I'm reduced to a gibbering jelly. Agora pressed my big phobia button 2010-04-22T17:17:00Z Now, with his Nobel year in the rearview, he’s done serving the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies. Bob Dylan’s Year of Living Laureatishly 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z A single punch can turn him into a wailing, gibbering, trembling wretch . Rereading: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-01-07T11:40:24Z Dickens wrote that scene as a final unforgettable trauma, forcing Oliver to witness the condemned man's gibbering collapse. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z “Trainspotting” author Irvine Welsh tweeted that he was a Dylan fan, but he called the Nobel “an ill-conceived nostalgia award wrenched from the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies.” Another prize for Bob Dylan — but this one is sweetest for fans and fellow songwriters 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The shadow chancellor had been behaving like an Asbo kid, gibbering away at Cameron for being some sort of drunk and sloth. Is it unparliamentary to call someone a 'muttering idiot'? 2012-05-26T17:19:01Z But the film that reduced Meg Ryan to a snotty, gibbering wreck in Sleepless in Seattle is no iconic fossil – that final scene retains its powers to enthral and discombobulate to this day. An Affair to Remember: No 13 2010-10-16T10:42:00Z It's staggering, but will leave you a gibbering wreck if you're still coming around from last night. Peter Van Hoesen, Frank Turner, Dizzee Rascal: this week's new tracks 2013-06-14T12:00:00Z Part of a planned series meant to evoke commedia dell’arte characters, Ms. Kirsten’s piece drew from Mr. Munro a bravura show of hissing, gibbering, urgent recitation and lines sung at high and low extremes. Music Review: Eighth Blackbird at Miller Theater - Review 2011-10-17T22:12:58Z Naked gibbering Ron Perlman is a high point that the show never really gets back to. Review: ‘Hand of God,’ on Amazon, Is a California Neo-Noir Thriller 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z But at first, there is nothing to ask: You are submerged in an eerie underworld, haunted by ghostly memories and the murmur of gibbering voices. Recalling Sept. 11 by Inverting a Museum’s Usual Role 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z "I like your watch," he says while I gibber into his big, beautiful, travel-befuddled face. Mad about the man 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z "Wade captures the tribal language, the joshing and later the maudlin gibbering of these young blades with a maliciously sharp ear," says Spencer. What to say about ... Posh 2010-04-19T10:34:00Z And afterwards several audience members told me that at least I should consider it a success not to have turned into a gibbering wreck. Beware Mr Baker 2013-05-15T08:10:20Z Some of them may gibber at you, particularly if they're coming up. The new rules of the dancefloor 2012-11-09T14:00:00Z Some of the little pieces are quite nice, there are good characters such as David Jean Jean and the gibbering seaman on the boat, and the frothing camels at the fair. TV review: The Secret Mediterranean with Trevor McDonald 2011-01-05T08:00:05Z They gibber endlessly about innovation while dismantling the social contract; they fetishize disruption as if that were an end in itself. Library of Congress’s leader retires, finding a successor for its next chapter 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z "Would you like some tea?" she quavers, desperately trying to ignore the profound threat embodied by the other, but her evasions soon fading into ineffectual squeaks and gibbers. I Don't Believe in Outer Space ? review 2011-02-27T00:05:44Z In the foreground a man flees wildly, “clutching his head,” as Morrison observes, “like Edvard Munch’s Screamer, his face a cartoon of gibbering existential terror.” ‘Superman,’ by Larry Tye 2012-07-06T22:10:04Z What I experienced was not so much a moral panic, as a full-scale gibbering fit in the stalls. Film review: Kick-Ass 2010-03-31T15:34:00Z Still, Mr. Aitken’s Edgar is among the more compelling presences, particularly as the gibbering, wretched Tom. | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z The cars in which I travel mostly have ticking meters above the dashboard and tend to be operated by a marginally lunatic person gibbering into a Bluetooth. | Pursuits: Guy Trebay on the Joys of Driving 2012-05-20T05:34:44Z Falling over in public becomes, not mildly awkward, but an experience of gibbering self-mortification. Seann Walsh – review 2012-11-07T18:07:44Z Welsh, the author of "Trainspotting," said although he's a Dylan fan, he found the prize this year an "ill-conceived nostalgia award wrenched from the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies." Times a-changin': Nobel jury says lyrics can be literature 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z He’s this pompous, rational know-it-all, but by the end is a gibbering idiot with his thumb in his mouth. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z The men who leer after Candy are truly fatuous primates, fit for little but gibbering at the moon. A Parody of Smut — and of Voltaire — Turns 60 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Now the gibbering hipster chimp cognoscenti are falling over themselves to write blogs claiming that it no longer rocks to mock the 'Play. Unseen Swells: 'I come not to slag off Coldplay, but to bury them' 2010-06-15T11:31:00Z It's one of the novel's funniest scenes: the men gibber through a jungle – lost in space and out of their Edwardian gourds. Mark Gatiss: Rocket man 2010-10-11T20:30:00Z The host, who was 18 when she joined the BBC kids' TV show, said she was "pushed to the limit" by behaviour that left her a "shaking, gibbering wreck." Yvette Fielding says she was bullied on Blue Peter 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z While I was a gibbering mess, Ellen was stunned into a weird, calm silence. ‘I was desperate for a cancer manual – but there isn’t one’ 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z I don’t want to spend this time in a fetal position in my closet, gibbering in existential terror! Perspective | The West Coast fires immolated my pandemic routines 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Another time, I had to rescue the late, great NME writer Steven Wells from the site, as he started gibbering like a hallucinating Vietnam war veteran. Can Donald Trump shrug off Amy Dorris's allegations of sexual assault too? Barbara Ellen 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z “Wash your hands, wash your hands” the prime minister kept gibbering last night. The truth about why Cummings hasn't gone: Johnson is too terrified to sack him | Marina Hyde 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z “A manic, gibbering, squint-eyed ragefest by America’s worst president,” Rick Wilson wrote in the Daily Beast. Bluster, distraction, denial: Trump follows Chavez's successful template 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z The music – arcing, frantic atonal guitar and gibbering backing vocals – sounds deranged; Bowie sings like a man on the brink of a nervous breakdown. David Bowie's 50 greatest songs – ranked! 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Won’t I look upon the smoldering ashes of that closet and wish that I’d organized it, or at least enjoyed it, rather than merely gibbering in it? Perspective | The West Coast fires immolated my pandemic routines 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z The PM chose instead to gibber out the last of his prepared lines, and the bulletins duly led with his claim that he’d “rather be dead in a ditch” than delay Brexit. Dazed and confused, Johnson stumbles into the twilight zone with a police escort | Marina Hyde 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z You need confidence to celebrate yourself so explicitly, and the Oscars are a gibbering mess. Hollywood is fine, but the Oscars need life support | Catherine Shoard 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z He is still dragging his old bones around the circuit, angering Bernard Tomic to the point of incomprehensible gibbering here this week. Wimbledon without surgery is ‘option B’ but Murray has a plan to ponder | Kevin Mitchell 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Away from politics, the Daily Star leads on I'm a Celebrity host Holly Willoughby becoming a "gibbering wreck over biting bugs" in the Australian jungle. In a hurry? Here's what you need to know in five minutes 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z “He sprawled on the floor, a gibbering, horror-stricken wretch, and confessed his sin,” Riis wrote. Cheats, Swindlers and Ne’er-Do-Wells: A New York Family Album 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z "Wow... doesn't answer," said one; another dubbed the briefing "surreal"; a third suggested Mr Turnbull was in "full gibbering mode". How an 'Australian values' debate puzzled even Australia - BBC News 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Okay, we understand the idea of travelling the globe and playing music to thousands of gibbering clubbers may not seem like work to most punters but the income tax man would beg to differ. Steve Aoki: the man who works 361 days a year - BBC News 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Only to watch their youngsters reduced to gibbering snotty wrecks living in terror of lizard-vulture-monsters and gigantic scarab beetles. 'The Power of the Dark Crystal' comic takes us beyond Jim Henson's muppet fantasy 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Try imagining him gibbering that line in fear – impossible. We love Harrison Ford even when he’s causing real life havoc. Here’s why | Catherine Shoard 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Of course, there is a moral difference in whether such actions are performed by a Harvard-educated constitutional law professor or a gibbering moron, and the distinction goes in Trump’s favour. Donald Trump: a man so obnoxious that karma may see him reincarnated as himself | Frankie Boyle 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z The thought that he will actually improve in the years ahead is enough to reduce defenders to gibbering wrecks. Gabriel Jesus off the mark as Manchester City rout West Ham again 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z In the animated comedy “Ice Age: Collision Course,” the movie’s makers have fired the gibbering rodent Scrat into space where, true to form, he causes chaos, this time on a truly cosmic scale. ‘Ice Age: Collision Course’: chaos on a cosmic scale 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z In Puritan poems, the forest gibbered and howled. How Americans Got Over Their Fear of Camping 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z A clearly angry President Obama, who was a target of Trump’s conspiratorial gibbering, responded with an explanation of how literally everything Trump wants to do is stupid and backwards. Obama’s scathing takedown of Trump: The president highlights just how isolated and unhinged the GOP nominee is 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Very quickly, soldiers began emerging with bizarre symptoms; they shuddered and gibbered or became unable to speak at all. What If PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological? 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z What but Trump can usher in the return of the gibbering Shoggoths? I, Cthulhu, endorse Donald Trump 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z This time around the gibbering rodent has been fired into space where, true to form, he causes chaos, this time on a truly cosmic scale. ‘Ice Age: Collision Course’: chaos on a cosmic scale 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z It's elegant cinema with a touch of classical formalism and restraint, instead of the gibbering glee over obscenity and grotesquerie that looms in and out of so much of the filmmaker's work. The Hateful Eight is Quentin Tarantino at his most sophisticated and sloppy 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Trump bragged a bit and called the moderators nasty; Carson smiled and gibbered incoherently and the status quo was maintained. Jeb Bush’s stunning, televised implosion: How the former GOP frontrunner became a sad, pathetic joke 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z At what point did Pochettino turn from a relatively tactically astute manager to a gibbering idiot? Sunderland v Tottenham: Premier League – as it happened 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z This year’s prequel, however, focuses on the gibbering, yellow Minions, and their search for a new tyrant to work with. The best superhero movies this summer didn't have any superheroes at all 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The idea of it reduces me to a quivering mass of gibbering dread if I allow my thoughts to dwell upon it too long. Is the West Coast Toast? Let's Talk Cascadia! 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z When your American soldier fighting today drops a napalm bomb on a cluster of gibbering chinks, it’s a bomb with a heart. Robert Stone, Out of the Sixties 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z At which point, the righteous rage against big business conveniently diverts towards these moronic corporate wannabes and their tragic, gibbering claims to be “the next Richard Branson”. Like all rapists, Ched Evans will never be really free 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z At what point did Pochettino turn from a relatively tactically astute manager to a gibbering idiot? Sunderland v Tottenham: Premier League – as it happened 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z But clearly, the line between increased and decreased performance is crossed all too often, and we end up in a gibbering, hyperventilating mess. Social anxiety: why the mundane can be terrifying 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z And sometimes I have to remind myself that in addition to being Terry Gilliam the great director, Terry Gilliam the visionary, this is also Cardinal Fang, the one who gibbered about the Spanish Inquisition. Monty Python's greatest skits 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z BZ, if wafted in aerosol form over enemy troops, could turn them into gibbering idiots for up to 80 hours. Tripping in LSD's Birthplace: A Story for “Bicycle Day” 2014-04-19T12:41:38Z For example, it reduces normally articulate and sophisticated people to gibbering in the online equivalent of grunts. Cash is on the line when Facebook comes calling… 2013-04-13T23:05:36Z "I … I thought it was high," he gibbered, before trying to get fellow showbiz guests to bellow his catchphrase at him. Will Olympic rowing coverage be hit by the Beeb's river hoodoo? 2012-06-07T16:09:21Z The poor idiot was allowed, if harmless, to wander about the village or the country, to drivel or gibber amidst the teasing or ill-natured treatment of boys or rustics. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z He stumbled to the door and went out, a queer, gibbering, shaking figure; and Basset had no doubt at such moments that he was mad. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z He dashed them away and looked, and rose slowly to his feet; while the ape, clinging to his breast, began to mow and gibber. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z The Deacon leaped as if touched in the pericardium, and essayed to gain the door; but in his transit his knees denied their office, and he sank gibbering as his hand was upon the latch. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z On the hearth crouched and gibbered that fearful old man. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z A monkey mowed and gibbered on the back of her chair; and a parrot, vieing in brilliance with the broidered birds on the wall, hung by its claws from a ring above her head. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z The reader of Shakespeare will remember the prodigies anterior to the death of Julius Cæsar when— “The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.” Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z With a terrified cry she sank weakly in a heap on the ground, and sat there shivering and gibbering, tears of fright streaming down her cold face. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z Full of long-reaching bulks of board it was, Where, glaring forth from ghostly gloom, Were gibbering monkeys grinning in a glass, In a dame's dressing-room. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, December 3, 1887 2012-03-09T03:00:20.130Z But the moment I set my foot across the threshold the old crone began to mow and gibber so horribly, putting herself in my way, that I fell back cowed. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z For, every second they stood thus fronting one another, Ferguson grinning and gibbering to him to sign, I looked to see the pistol explode, and my lord fall lifeless. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z The moment after, the monkey sprang from the thicket into the tree, and climbed with frantic speed to the very top, where he sat gibbering and shaking with terror. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z How those gibbering Borneo idiots ever let the lion out is more than I know, but they're strong as wildcats at times. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z Who hearkens the ravings of a maniac? for I see now that in a few months more I should have been a gibbering idiot: Yet no mortal could have persuaded me away but you. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z And then it must not be forgot That Hell is wide and awful hot, And gibbering fiends around us grin With joy to see us tumble in. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Arrived at the Old Bridge, Robert let off his rocket, while the ever-increasing crowd gibbered and hallooed. 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 the animal sat motionless on its branch, grinning and gibbering. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z Then coronets would rise in the market again, and this gibbering thing would come strutting back from exile--a worm on end--with other emigrants, to enjoy again the sweets of life. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Squeaking and gibbering, the maskers, unrebuked, took all manner of saucy liberties. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Tom leaned against the rail, holding up the lamp, and the thing that had the shape of a man sat gibbering on a coil of hawser in the midst of the bridge deck. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z You were crouched up among the bed-curtains at the head of the bed and gibbering: 'It will touch her. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z Only when he struck a spark from his flint, and after some ineffectual attempts succeeded in blowing up a flame, did the monkey reveal its hiding-place by a little gibber of amazement. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z They were round about him on each side, whirling and rustling, gibbering, groaning, shrieking, laughing, and lamenting. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z The ape that lurks in every man gibbered in every clerical rag. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z The negro mowed and gibbered meaninglessly, and Austin, stooping, grasped his shoulder, which was clean. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z They had come staggering, sometimes gibbering, and rarely were both of them sane. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z At the last moment Dennis turned and called to the animal; but it merely gibbered and blinked. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z He who is the Truth will never bless a story of lifeless, jerking, galvanized puppets, gibbering forced aphorisms and preposterous piety, and acting in a red fire of sensational incidents. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z What a hell-born irony it was, matter for mirth of gibbering fiends. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z Persis looked at him, wondering if he had gone mad and begun to gibber. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z When the police came she was bending over the body of the madman, laughing in shrill hysterics, and the ape gibbered at them from his seat on the high back of a chair. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z His hasty movement disturbed the watcher, and Dennis heaved a sigh of relief as he heard a shrill chattering above, and knew it for the gibber of a monkey. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z And those trees with their bent and gnarled stems walked about me, and gibbered and laughed, and pointed crooked fingers at me. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z Slowly, painfully, his mind wrestled with the problem of the night before, a night unreal, peopled with phantoms that gibbered and peered from enshrouding blackness. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z Frank could hear, high over the loud hum of insect life, the distant yelp of the jackal, the gibber of the striped hyaena, and the unearthly yell of the jungle cat. Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z The bye was gibbering like a baboon by the time he was fetched aboard the Para Wanka, Chinese barque out o' Honolulu. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z But undeterred apparently by the deadly shower, they continued their attack, gibbering and screaming with fury. Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z Whatever visited itself on Andecy must not find a gibbering mistress there. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z She seemed to have all at once become transformed into a gibbering idiot. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z Although his clothes clung to his skin he was making violent, meaningless gestures as he ran, and appeared to be gibbering or muttering something as if in that stage of fright which borders on imbecility. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z He made me no answer, but moved and gibbered at me. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z It would be a shame if such a charming woman should become a gibbering maniac as a result of obstinacy on your part. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z The room reeled, and Flaggs danced before him, gibbering with glee. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z Mrs. Lamb was still, she ceased to gibber. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z I gibbered in impotent rage, and then went and put my head under a tap. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z The most deadly fear clutched at my heart—that noiseless, pattering run through the deserted town in the air, accompanied always by the mouthing, gibbering ghosts of the mist, was appalling. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z He stood stammering, almost gibbering incoherent words at her. Pink Gods and Blue Demons 2011-08-31T02:01:22.827Z He went calmly and resolutely to the chamber where the Curse was then lodged, and the next morning they found him outside the door—a gibbering maniac!' The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z My haggard and dismayed array of thoughts broke in confusion and left me gibbering, with not one idea for use. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z The British lunatic shook his fist at them, as he was led back gibbering to his ward. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z To Chilly's imagination the friendly, familiar faces took on the baleful character of the gibbering things by which he was beset. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z The forked branches of a tree on the hill stretched upwards across it, like the black arms of some gibbering demon. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z I was on the verge of gibbering then; I dared not trust myself to speak. The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z At first the whole air was animated, and filled with rustling and flapping of wings, and gibbering of unearthly voices. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z Eventually the wretched man was led gibbering to an underground dungeon. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z Right now they are gibbering in fear in the basement, stocking up on bottled water. Market meltdown deja vu 2011-08-04T17:02:00Z With a magnificent cardinal flame the sun rose, gibbered in the sky and sank behind the southern cliffs on November 3. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z In such wise Berbel folded her arms and took her ease in her cave, while her sister went gibbering along the highways. The Invasion of France in 1814 2011-07-27T02:00:37.397Z He reeled 137 in drunkenness and fell to the floor in a gibbering drunken stupor. Treading the Narrow Way 2011-07-21T02:00:18.563Z He would hear a great hoarse voice, and a little woman with a shrivelled face and covered with jewels, would squeak and gibber at him. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z We've got three weeks to go before the debt ceiling deadline, and if the last 24 hours are any indication, we'll all be gibbering madmen long before time runs out. A translation guide for nutty GOP debt ceiling rhetoric 2011-07-12T16:08:00Z As he came nearer, Watty saw that he was gibbering with rage, and crying like a child. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z Monkeys grin and gibber at him among the branches, and a large secretary bird floats away from its nest of sticks hard by. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Snarling, gibbering with a mingling of terror and rage, McKee's one hand fastened on the gun. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z Down came the helmets, and the same moment the monkey, which had been seen by Reeks, issued from a cupboard at the top of a cabinet, and grinned and gibbered at them. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z Tittering voices of scorn and mockery rose, and sounded gibbering all around me. The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z And the man was past middle age, helpless and gibbering from birth. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z “I—I—I beg your pardon,” gibbered Kent, whelmed instantly in a morass of embarrassment. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z Unless that is done, and done speedily, those who are now morally stupefied will die in their torpor, and the rest who are harmless lunatics will become gibbering and shrieking demoniacs.— Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z I remember one poor miserable wretch of an albino, with a face like a very, very thin Angora goat, who used to gibber through the bars all day long. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z O my pea, my pea!” cried the Monkey, gibbering in distress. The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India 2011-05-07T02:00:31.307Z Ha! you laugh, and grin, and gibber, that I have lost in a half hour's tale what I have won by years of silence. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z The writer of a mad song need not gibber in the streets. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Mr. L. S. My dear Mimosa, I give you my solemn word that if I remain opposite those Chippendale bookcases ten minutes longer I shall become a gibbering anarchist! Punch,or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893 2011-04-02T02:00:12.230Z I was afraid I'd begin to gibber if I tried to explain the delay to him, so I waved my free hand at him in a ghoulish attempt at cheerfulness. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z The old man gibbered with rage and offended pride; but the lines of defeat, which life had stamped on his face, deepened. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z It was a maniac—a man about thirty years of age, and I believe deaf and dumb; p. 92there he sat, gibbering and mowing, and distorting his wild features into various dreadful appearances. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z I have had visitors already; gay, gibbering fools, with forked tongues, who would counsel me to dishonour. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z They thrust against him; they gibbered soundlessly at him. Palos of the Dog Star Pack 2011-03-20T02:00:36.067Z I throttled the moronic impulse to gibber "I feel like there's a great big one in my head!" and carefully mouthed the words I had rehearsed for such an emergency as this. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z Indistinct sounds reached him, and he could see the people were every moment becoming more earnest as they watched the wizard, who continued to rock himself to and fro, gibbering and screeching. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Whom seeks Mag�ra with her deadly torch?—Whose shade Comes gibbering there with scattered limbs?—It is my brother! Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z Myriads of dreadful faces shaped themselves out of the gloom, and mowed and gibbered at the woman. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z The idea was that the prime minister would be reduced to gibbering incoherence by this query, since its very simplicity offered no toe-hold for an aggressive response. David Cameron and the phantom of privilege 2011-01-26T18:26:53Z If he begins to gibber and pull out his hair, he's looney and we'll have to tie him down, I expect. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z Amani was standing up, gibbering and declaiming to the nearest listeners. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z With empty, voiceless shouts the Trojan dead greet their hero, in wonder that he comes still living among them, while the Grecian shades flee gibbering away. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z One of the manacled men screamed and gibbered as he was being bound—sounds that were like nothing human. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Newman complained during his life time of the phantoms that "gibbered" instead of the real him. 'Reluctant saint' 2010-06-04T14:48:00Z Set a can of peas on the floor of just about any bedroom and it would roll slowly in the direction of the gibbering Atlantic. 2010-01-25T05:00:00Z Ah! there came the jackal’s cry again, destroying the illusion, and a responsive laugh followed, like mocking echoes from the gibbering hyena. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Appleby waved his hand in a gesture of such bland welcome that Lonsdale seemed to gibber with suppressed mortification and rage. Sinister Street, vol. 2 But there's nothing fine about it, when one sees these gibbering blockheads shouting and yelling about nothing. Sinister Street, vol. 1 “Shakspeare I think it is who treats Of Ghosts, in days of old, Who ‘gibbered in the Roman streets,’ Dressed, if you recollect, in sheets— They must have found it cold. Rhyme? And Reason? And the ocean turned out to gibber rather than murmur. 2010-01-25T05:00:00Z All at once she heard a groan; something rolled off the box and obstructed the fore-wheel, she looked out into the waste, and three dark figures gibbered at her in the mist. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z The first time the low, gibbering laugh swelled into the wild, long-sustained shrieking ha! ha! a voice said, low and clear: "Oh, dear God!" Life on the Stage Brant looked up at her, mouthing and gibbering; then he spat on the deck, and, turning away without a word, flung his Derringer over the rail into the sea. A Traitor's Wooing Lucette spoke, and life turned for me to sheer prattling madness; to a gibbering grotesque! The Book of Susan A Novel Is it a Ghost that never clanks his chains, That never gibbers, and that bangs no door: But quietly and peacefully remains In calm possession of some upper floor? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 She drove to the station in a storm of blinding sleet, while the wind, howling through trees suddenly become gaunt, seemed to shriek and gibber with derision at her going. Thirty And an old woman, gray as an ash tree, was muttering very quickly to herself: "Oh, God help me; O, dear Lord help me!" on and on without a pause in the gibbering reiteration. Carnival "What rot are you gibbering with those monkey airs of yours?" Ewing\\'s Lady At once the stillness of death ensued, as though each gibbering demon had scurried back into his hiding-place. A Modern Wizard They retreated helter-skelter, but only to skip forward again, mowing and gibbering. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising All of a sudden, led by about a dozen of the largest, the whole troop of hairy monsters came shambling forward—gibbering and gnashing their great tusks in unpleasantly suggestive fashion. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt Of what value was the life of a raving, gibbering maniac to himself or the world in general? 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War He was gibbering in the Stygian tongue, though in a dialect unfamiliar to her. Red Nails Ordinarily sedate doctors of this or that gibbered at each other in an arm-waving, frenzied attempt to be heard. The Moralist She danced and flickered and gibbered at him. Shock Treatment "How stupid of them to be bothered by a little thing like that," I said, trying not to gibber. The Chameleon Man Tom Carr hayes—a gibbering, mouthing lunatic—a furious demoniac—no wonder they shrank from approaching him. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War They gibbered and mocked at him, and flung more nuts. The Three Mulla-mulgars I wish I’d never heard of ’em, the little gibbering idiots!” Dorothy on a House Boat Hullo! our prisoner seems to be subsiding into something akin to gibbering idiocy, Mr. Trent. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories He finally takes rough-on-rats, and dies a gibbering idiot, with his mother slobbering over him and trying to figure out in her own mind that he was merely drunk and disorderly. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 The sound of that small and strangely clear voice, after the odorous gibbering speech, almost appalled Mr. Dainopoulos. Command If their leader charged the blacks they would follow—and did, while among them danced, cavorted and gibbered the travesty, Apeman. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 She had been shut out of the world forever, and chained alive to the open gate of hell, where all who entered in mocked and gibbered at her with their decapitated heads. Pretty Michal I had arrived at that stage where all your ancestors gibbered at the foot of my bed. Ancestors A Novel Not all the hustling, mowing, and gibbering of the fiends would under ordinary circumstances have kept Adeliza from her lover’s side: but what is all hell to jealousy? Devil Stories An Anthology Then, once more, it was ripped from on top by that perishing shriek–passing strange, remote–but now it was as if the fissure’s three-cornered mouth filled with it, faintly gibbered the one word: “C-caught!” Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl Miss Thistlewaite's diamonds, and the woman who held them was gibbering like an idiot! Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories Some are gibbering like fiends, others jabbering like idiots. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) During quite half of her discourse Gwynne had felt his soul writhe under a rain of hot metal, gibber towards some abyss where it could hide its humiliation and its scars for ever. Ancestors A Novel Nor is she the woman to make me forget my manhood and pride, to tumble me down doddering at her feet and gibbering like an ape. The Kempton-Wace Letters The terrified black crouched and gibbered, but would not stir. Cudjo's Cave He knew in every detail the agonies of body and mind a man went through, before the absence of the stuff either broke him of the terrible need, or left him a gibbering, mindless wreck. One Purple Hope! Through the choir of nightingales Rumbles now the growl of bears, Low and fierce, and changes then To the gibbering of ghosts! Atta Troll The cook was gibbering and actually drooling with fear. Let'Em Breathe Space Here in the little sheltered hollow no goblins gibbered, no banshee wailed in the wet wood. Old Plymouth Trails As he gibbered forth these words, his long hands found the lieutenant's throat, and tightened upon it. Cudjo's Cave Such a quality there must be unless when we use the term "works of art" we gibber. Pot-Boilers The frightened priest gibbered unintelligibly, but there was a guilty look on his face which spurred Shabako on. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 I have put out my gibber, and if you have read thus far, you will have taken it in. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) She mutters and digs and buries it deep— The little green leaves are wild on the trees— And nearer and nearer the noises creep, That gibber and maunder and whine and weep ... Weeds by the Wall Verses I had a messenger from him to-day with a flannel undershirt which I had left behind like a gibbering idiot; and perpetrated in reply another Baboo letter. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) Or are we to assume that he gibbers? Pot-Boilers Their thin voices intermingled in an insistent, unearthly refrain as if the spirits of the dead had come again to gibber by the pool. Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp Hence I am suffering from suppressed gibber—an uneasy complaint; and like all cases of suppressed humours, this hath a nasty tendency to the brain. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Soon the gibbering could no longer be heard and the big Martian stepped out of the grave. The Terrible Answer He was surrounded by gibbering and leering slant-eyed yellow faces; they screamed at him without letup, and his ears rang with their fiendish outcry. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story His hands shook, and his words gibbered from his trembling lips. Carmen Ariza Beyond, gibbering victims of paresis, white-haired 89 idiots, wasted sufferers from senile dementia. Orphans of the Storm It is very depressing to suffer from gibber that cannot be brought to a head. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Another came in, helped along by two other men; he was a raving lunatic, his eyes ghastly and horrible to look upon, and he was foaming at the mouth, and gibbering wildly. How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. He saw about him rags, filth, men sick, men dying, men dead, men groaning, men cursing, men gibbering. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 That same afternoon some of the Ragged Men came suspiciously to the globe and inspected it, and then vented a gibbering rage upon it with blows and curses. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 There was a gibbering sound in the back of my mind. Little Brother The gibbering bullet-headed negro was pulling directly behind me and I turned to quiet him as his frantic reaches with his oar were hitting me in the back. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons Evil suggestions and suspicious remembrances of the past, which would have fled before the sunlight, surrounded him and looked out at him from the shadow with gibbering faces. Graham of Claverhouse You cannot gaze into this glass at night, But all your race will gibber at your back! L'Aiglon It was the same awful, gibbering hatred he had sensed in the caperings of the four he had seen bellowing vituperation at an airplane. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 There is something in the notion, for it was a risky trip, And a spectre is a nuisance when he gibbers on board ship. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 The mob surged toward him as if to grind his face to pieces under their feet—and then recoiled, mouthing and gibbering. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 She had expected that some demon within him would spring out and gibber. The Paliser case And if Jim had needed conviction, the sight of this gibbering creature, now climbing into the boat and fawning upon Tode, convinced him. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 Just such hard-bitten, vice-ridden men as these, and filled with just such a mad, gibbering hatred of the free men they had escaped from. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 Axelson turned and wheezed in the Moon language—if the gibbering of the dwarfs could be called speech—and one of the guards answered him. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 That is because it is Palestrina, François; not because it is a vehicle to salvation, employed by the gibbering priests. The Strollers The demon showed his white and awful teeth, which were filed into a saw-like shape, and extricating himself from my grasp with a sudden jerk, fled down the passage with a gibbering laugh. Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories Bill Jones was no longer screaming and gibbering, but was stiff with the rigidity of stone. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 Certain cold facts stared at him, and gibbered their sinister meaning, and dared him to ride on and discover other facts, blood-brothers of these that haunted him o’ nights. Rim o' the World Two guards were bringing a gibbering, screeching, struggling Moon man with them. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 Drury rolled and panted and gibbered, cursed even, with lips more used to gentle words and prayers. In a Little Town Richling stood and gazed; and still they streamed out in gibbering waves, until the wonder was that anything but a witch’s dream could contain them. Dr. Sevier Parrish, the trim, immaculate, clean-shaven, urbane old man, whose lectures, imbued with wit and scholarship, had always been the delight of his classes—Parrish reduced to this gibbering maniac! Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 It is Yahoo language; a monster gibbering shrieks, and gnashing imprecations against mankind—tearing down all shreds of modesty, past all sense of manliness and shame; filthy in word, filthy in thought, furious, raging, obscene. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges The creature stopped, gibbering with surprise, and then rushed forward, mewing like a cat. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 Within its long hulk three motionless forms lay in a welter of blood that smeared their officers' badges, and a dozen gibbering men labored at the controls of their craft. When the Sleepers Woke They pointed at him, gibbered upon him, threatened him, and laughed—great God, how they laughed! Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main He was gibbering and mouthing as he fawned upon Tode and pressed his hand to his hairy face. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 Others again, whose minds had suffered under those long months of fiendish torture, were no sooner released than they became utterly mad, and fell to laughing and gibbering at their preservers. In the Days of Drake Whether in Church or at home, whether by your father or by gibbering Levites the ceremony is performed, we must hie us to the desert after it is done. The Book of Khalid Anything that approaches gibbering cannot be too strongly condemned. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 The horrible, gibbering fear that, for the last time, an army marched against him. Happy Ending Bell had looked into it, and had shot the gibbering Thing that had been its occupant, as an act of pure mercy. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 The open tunnel vomited forth a torrent of gibbering dwarfs. The Great Dome on Mercury The small samples of ore he gloated over lovingly, mouthing and gibbering. Louisiana Lou A Western Story At this point the man broke down altogether and began to gibber. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 May the curtain fall on a gibbering epileptic!' Ghetto Comedies The tree-tops opposite were full of great apes, mowing and gibbering at them with every sign of hate. In the Morning of Time In the back room they began gibbering at me. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China The gibbering, cracked old fiend shrank, peering fearfully, away from her blazing eyes and the black halo, rimmed with flashing color, of her hair. Louisiana Lou A Western Story In the lamp light she could read signs bearing names as unpronounceable as the gibbering monkey-speech in Lafayette Street. The Dust Flower The man had fought desperately only for a moment, then collapsed, and gibbering with fear had allowed himself to be bound without a struggle. El Diablo And the mad gibbering died away into the hot, green silence of the tree-tops. In the Morning of Time Bobbie shot the foremost of them through the brain, and the other, gibbering terribly, vanished into the shadow. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China Soon I am decorated with chains of sea-treasures wound about waist and neck and arms, and the old crone stands by gibbering and nodding approval. Under the Southern Cross With his hands before his eyes as if to forefend his view from some dreadful apparition, the man in the corner sank upon his knees, gibbering, “William Leadbury, come back from the dead!” The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton About a dozen hyenas were gibbering around a huge lion that lay crouched alongside a dark object on the ground, upon which he appeared to be feeding. The Giraffe Hunters She fell at Grôm’s feet, gibbering breathlessly, and plainly imploring his protection. In the Morning of Time He seemed desperately sleepy, and gibbering as if in a dream. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China In spite of old Mistress Benton’s commands and prayers, the Lady Barbara had stepped from the coach and the stranger had slammed the door upon the gibbering dame. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 “Oh, oh,” she moaned, gibbering a gush of words which, despite their incoherence of form, in their tone proclaimed fear, consternation, and despair. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton She sat on the edge of the lumpy seat, alternately praying and gibbering, her hands clenched, her head throbbing with the sharp pain born of fear. Juggernaut Of that filthy horde hardly a score escaped, and these fled back, gibbering, to meet the migrant hosts of their kin who were following on their trail. In the Morning of Time The world appeared peopled with horrible gargoyles that resembled Stelton and that leered and gibbered at her everywhere. The Free Range He was in one of his despondent moods just then, when his skeleton came out of the cupboard and gibbered at him. The Giant's Robe And, laughing over their shoulders at this fine harvest of fruit, gibbering and dangling against the heavens on high, the King and his host rode back into the Border country. The Fifth Queen Crowned Rather that than let the first insane capering of his intellect unhorse him and leave him gibbering after a vanished mount. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath We just gibbered at each other across the counter for a moment, I believe—and I never saw a face so horror-stricken! Captain Jim Now, a monkey cannot wear clothes, smoke cigarettes, perform before applauding audiences and return to the jungle without a certain feeling of hateful unfitness among his gibbering brethren. The Free Range Typewriters gibbered like chuckling morons through the roaring tumult of the editorial rooms. Hellhounds of the Cosmos He groaned, gibbering, for he stood on the brink at this minute, looking down at the lashing sea of retribution. 'Firebrand' Trevison The five tribes of Mallare rage and curse beneath me, fill the air with profanations, weep and gibber in the night. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath "You be a brave Buckra," said she, in her gibbering English. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates You reduce me to the rank of a gibbering schoolgirl. Free Air The old woman came from her pots to peer at the plasters on his skull, and then returned to the fire gibbering and wailing that she was not in that house plasters for to make. Privy Seal His Last Venture Come on! let's get inside before the hour arrives for the sheeted dead to squeak and gibber in these lonely halls. Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories People gibbered over her; then came her tragic death at the age of ninety-two in the balcony scene. Terribly Intimate Portraits Shake up, you gibbering fools; luff her a bit and make fast. The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Many lost their reason, and wandered through the city, gibbering and shrieking lunatics. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Say, in a month already I'm near gibbering with the lonesomeness. The Huntress Count Albert swept his vast two-handed sword into the fœtid air while the tide of corruption paused in its swirling, and swept down on Rupert with gibbering grins. Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories Death for the third time stared and gibbered; for the third time our gallant fellows, all in mass, again advanced to the attack. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 You are a race of maniacs, gibbering across the stars. Citadel Some lounge, smoking or gibbering, over the taffrail, other groups sit picturesquely on their large rude boxes, but most of them are suggestively silent and statuesque. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 We are followed by the shades of our ancestors who visit us, not with midnight squeak and gibber, but in the broad noonday, speaking with our speech, and doing with our deed. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 On the other hand, Mary, falling to her knees, clung to him, fairly gibbering in the extremity of her terror. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] “King or no king,” he gibbered, “I sway a maid’s heart.” The Proud Prince Mary," said Arthur, "remove that bonnet, which by no means becomes you, and let Adela take it into a corner and gibber over it to herself. Last Words A Final Collection of Stories In less than five minutes the troop approached the biltongue, howling, and gibbering, as before; only this time uttering peculiar cries, as if to express disappointment. Popular Adventure Tales Go gibber and squeak where gibbering and squeaking are the fashion! Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea Astral board of Immortals sitting in Unconscious tweaking strings until gobbets and sclerotics become gibbering idiots every time they put pen to paper?… Black Oxen Robert, lifting his hands as if in a kind of hideous benediction, gibbered at their fear. The Proud Prince "And still along that rocky coast, A gibbering yet a gallant ghost, He dodders, dodders at his post, Nor nears the goal; For she, the spook he cares for most, Still loves to troll." The Merryweathers The unhappy Blackbeard gibbered something and would have fled as the spirits approached him. Blackbeard: Buccaneer And there's nothing I so hate as a gibbering ghost. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea When the men of his company cleared the sandbags away from him, he was a gibbering wreck, unwounded but paralysed, and splashed with the blood of three dead men. Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France The Homeric ghosts gibbered because they were ghosts; the Burgundian ghosts because they were confined to the Stygian coast, and could not cross the stream. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 They joined Grim Hagen’s men and gibbered in fear as they pointed back. Hunters Out of Space The sailor’s voice is drowned by the gibbering of the orangs, his gesture of mock-menace, with the semi-serious look that accompanied it, having part frightened, part infuriated them. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea It was the most sensational parade ever held at Siwash; and how we yelled and gibbered with delight when we got the full aroma of Rearick's plan! At Good Old Siwash The grotesque forms of the Etruscan household Gods appeared to gibber at him; the very flames upon the altar, before them, cast lurid gleams and ominous to his distempered fancy. The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 I never got as far as the camp, but my shouts brought a whole lot of them gibbering round me. Queensland Cousins Had some crazed sailor escaped, and was he gibbering from the roundtop? Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate If die I must, I would at least cheat those gibbering fiends of their show. Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos And each gibbering wight In the moon's pale light Must dance to that wild refrain. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players Because of this I found myself sitting flat upon the hardwood floor, gibbering 305like an idiot at the dim light which showed the bookcases which extended around the room from floor to ceiling. The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle There was nothing to gain by letting his two passengers suspect that during the past few minutes their pilot, the owner of Rammer Spacelines, had been a bare step away from plain and fancy gibbering. The Winds of Time They were already close to the entrance, and with loud gibbering menaced us from the outside. Ran Away to Sea He could hear the gibbering of the mob gradually getting louder and louder as the crowd gathered up fresh recruits and surged along in pursuit of him. Under the Rebel's Reign They were around about him on each side, whirling and rustling, gibbering, groaning, shrieking, laughing, and lamenting. Rookwood He lay on the deck, a bedraggled heap, gibbering and shivering, while a surgeon, with cotton in his nostrils and smelling-salts in his hand, diagnosed his case. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea It sank away as Sadok grasped the scorpions in his filthy claw, and leaped, gibbering in his beard, upon the terrace. Halima And The Scorpions 1905 They were shouting in tones of despair, screaming in agonised accents; while some, who had evidently gone mad, were gibbering and laughing in voices that bore a striking resemblance to that of the hyena! Ran Away to Sea Have you felt the fear coming over you, like a cold hand on your heart, when ye knew that a thing gibbered and mouthed at your side? The McBrides A Romance of Arran One was an old woman, fantastically attired, wringing her hands, and moaning, or gibbering wild strains in broken, discordant, yet pathetic tones. Rookwood Shortly thereafter, a gibbering lunatic got on the screen and threatened the escorting rocket. This World Must Die! Some prisoners lost their reason, and became raving maniacs, while others became only gibbering idiots. Winning His Way He has brought himself to a state of gibbering insanity by a life of indulgence in every form of vice and depravity known to humanity. The Crooked House He ran gibbering up and down the corridors of his own memory, mentally reeling from the shock of—identification! Suite Mentale I just kind o' gibbered—I don't know what. Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas Thus then having spoken, he stretched out with his friendly arms, nor caught him; 729 for the spirit went gibbering 730 beneath the earth, like smoke. The Iliad of Homer (1873) At night the whistling tempests meet In tryst upon his topmost seat, And all the phantoms of the sky Frolic and gibber, storming by. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 He seldom uttered a sound beyond a gibber, and hardly seemed to be conscious. The Crooked House Without warning there rose from inside a frantic gibbering, meaningless, bestial, horribly shrill. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain The doctor had only to close his eyes in order to see them, gibbering and dancing on his hopes, which had been laid low by his friend's eager disclosure. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands Then he sat up suddenly and Sam Moore and his deputies fled gibbering into the dark, while Purdy drove the team back to Wolf River. Prairie Flowers It was late when he dragged Ezra, laughing and gibbering, into a private hospital. Tess of the Storm Country It was curious to study the various expressions of the human countenance unmasked and confronted with gibbering fear. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance The gibbering broke suddenly into a scream that rang for an instant and stopped short, leaving blank silence. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain It is Yahoo language: a monster gibbering shrieks, and gnashing imprecations against mankind—tearing down all shreds of modesty, past all sense of manliness and shame; filthy in word, filthy in thought, furious, raging, obscene. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American This they flung, with frantic gestures, from one to another, receiving it in their arms with a yell and a scream, gibbering in fiendish glee, and dancing and whirling about. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852 If Helena were so much as doubled, the men would be gibbering idiots. The Californians But still he clutched my arm, and gibbered, and pointed back, and now my eyes were playing tricks again: surely there was a shadow! A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa He seemed not merely to run; he took wing and flew—a screeching, gibbering madman. Every Man for Himself All the corporal’s stoicism was gone: he talked wildly, crouched and gibbered in his fear, when he was suddenly roused by a heavy shock. Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend Some, again, were sitting crouching by themselves, moving and gibbering, and pointing with idiot glance at their companions, and then at the vessel. The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea Even that would be easier to bear than the thought that she had gone to rest in the grasp of the hirsute gorilla, with its hideous offspring grinning and gibbering around her. The Castaways In less than five minutes the troop approached the biltongue, howling, and gibbering, and laughing, as before; only this time uttering peculiar cries, as if to express disappointment. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Above all, the vision of that ill-favoured effigy under the grating rose gibbering and mocking me to my face, and claiming me for penal servitude, if not for the gallows itself. Tom, Dick and Harry Panic, chalk-white, staring panic-fear, swallowed her up: the next few hours flew by as minutes, while she was cowering and gibbering in a corner. Little Novels of Italy Walking on rapidly, he soon left these gibbering wretches, and found that the passage became much drier, although darker, and wound and turned in various directions. Ting-a-ling But after bone-dry Sicily, and after the gibbering of myriad people all rattling their personalities, I am glad to be with the profound indifference of faceless trees. Fantasia of the Unconscious Of one accord they fled, gibbering, towards the stairs, one falling in a faint from fright before he reached them. Frontier Boys in Frisco I'm not going to have a boy like Philo gibbering around ready to break out wild any time. The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays He makes over the lovers into two monstrous Cossacks, who gibber and squeak at each other while reading some obscene volume. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques The words of the driver as he sailed away were—"Go home and die, you moonstruck, gibbering, wobbling omadhaun," and she had thought that his description was apt and eloquent. Here are Ladies Nowadays you still come across some of these ancient notions, especially in courts, where they do no little damage in perverting justice, but they are ghost-like and disreputable, gibbering and largely helpless. A Preface to Politics It was but the other evening as we were seated about the fire that there came upward from the basement a gibbering squeak. Journeys to Bagdad The chak who ran the place came and gibbered at me. The Door Through Space There is something delightfully novel in promenading with a young lady at the witching hour of midnight, when graveyards yawn, and gibbering ghosts in winding-sheets cut up cantrips before high heaven. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel He transformed Hamlet into "a yelling man" and Romeo and Juliet into "two monstrous Cossacks, who gibber and squeak at each other while reading some obscene volume." A Book of Prefaces The moon was now well up in the heavens, and its fitful light creeping through the leafy roof above, made gibbering ghosts of the swaying gums. The Lost Valley It is then that you will get the gibbering of returning life. Journeys to Bagdad It slithered and it had nothing like a recognizable human shape or walk, and I felt the primeval ape in me cowering and gibbering in a corner of my brain. The Door Through Space Otherwise they are left to gibber on the hither bank. Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea Then T. Barnwell Powell put one hand to his mouth and made a small gibbering sound, and Doctor Vehrner gave a faint squawk, and then both men grabbed, simultaneously, for the whiskey bottle. Dearest When the gibbering and skreeking began to fall off, she stepped forward. Naudsonce "Haven't you heard of the haunted house in a West End square, where a man and a dog were found dead in the morning, with a valet as gibbered awful ever afterwards?" The Silent House And the dozen men who were to have done the actual work of the torture-sacrifice had all dropped their whips and were fairly gibbering in fear. Temple Trouble He cursed at them, nor knew that he merely gibbered from frightful lips. Winner Take All 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 It was something that laughed and sobbed and gibbered horribly. Green Valley The thing is or is not, he said to himself, and the gibber about prayer and the moral force that moves the universe is for the weak-minded. A Certain Rich Man Glumly reverting to his morning paper, he began to read and reread with dogged persistence each item of politics and foreign news—each gibbering advertisement. Molly Make-Believe There he sat, gibbering and mowing, and distorting his wild features into various dreadful appearances. George Borrow The Man and His Books Shortly after this the youngest apprentice went below, and found the ill-used lad standing on a locker, and gibbering fearfully. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary Poor mites! without homes or money, and with their relations often lost—yet little boys were gibbering over their toys, and little girls clung to big parcels, and squeaked dolls or blew trumpets. My War Experiences in Two Continents Nothing, ladies and gentlemen—nothing; gibber, chatter, giggles, and squeals—that is all. A Certain Rich Man I had heard this decidedly nasty story just before the pilot’s departure, and it was now the culmination of all the foolish thoughts that gibbered in my head. We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys For the time, at all events, I was a gibbering madman. Pieces of Eight The stand was watched by a red-faced merryandrew, who gibbered and yelled in a vigorous manner. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary Then he carefully hoisted Murphy into place and bound his feet beneath the animal's belly, the poor fellow gibbering at him, in appearance an utter imbecile, although exhibiting periodic flashes of malignant passion. Bob Hampton of Placer O God, O God, O God, help me!" and to that prayer, as she said it, the something in her heart kept gibbering, "Why not? A Certain Rich Man A sound of gibbering gnomes, of elfish song— Mingling high discords with the patient clink Of instruments of toil—of laughter strange— Warned them of the wild laborers they must meet. The Arctic Queen The latter gibbered horribly at the spark of pain, and set herself really down to fight. The Way of the Wild Lawler's lips straightened, and his eyes glowed with a passion so intense that the men shrank, gibbering, in the grip of a mighty paralysis. The Trail Horde His knees gave way altogether, and he crouched there on the floor, gibbering silently at the big man, and plainly terrified clean out of his wits. The Blood Ship A hundred times he had found traces of her; a hundred times he had called out her name, only to be mocked and gibbered at by apes. The Adventures of Kathlyn The wild yell of the leopard rose above the strange, half-human gibbering of the monkeys and the hoarse, bass calling of another voice, at the sound of which Lenora and even Quest shuddered. The Black Box Without a present and without a past ... blindly ... a gibbering idiot ... he stumbled down the stairs. The House of the Vampire While Mahdi had his eye to the wall, the gorilla would cling to the bars of his cage, pushing his blunt nose through, and gibber and spit and protest in a high-pitched, querulous growl. The Missing Link There was no use in making a gibbering idiot of one's self. The Sheriff's Son One would be struck dumb, another would gibber like a maniac, while a third would retain possession of his reason but lose control of his limbs. The Story of the "9th King's" in France The monkeys ran and jumped around them, gibbering as though with pleasure. The Black Box For either all works of visual art have some common quality, or when we speak of "works of art" we gibber. Art The revolver was held in Mahdi's shaggy paw, pointed straight at Heeley's head, and the animal gibbered in guttural fury, snarling and showing ugly white fangs. The Missing Link Then suddenly she stopped and rushed away, still gibbering. Adventures of a Despatch Rider He compares the negroes to "a wretched gibbering set, from their appearance and condition more nearly allied to beasts than to men." Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is Streets, a lion is in the, 16. --, squeak and gibber in the, 78. Familiar Quotations Why should you prowl in heaven and gibber shrill, Like dogs that in an autumn night run wild, Like deer that sneak through forests, trembling still? Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works For such gibbering lunacy as this the master mariner had no fit reply. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul If it had not been for the generous supply of "days off" that the Skipper allowed us, we should by February have begun to gibber. Adventures of a Despatch Rider His best friend was a disgusting sight, apparently not much better than a gibbering idiot. The Plastic Age Above there was a noise as though thousands of devilish creatures were rushing along, helter-skelter, with inconceivable rapidity, howling, shrieking, screaming, wailing, laughing, exulting, whistling and gibbering. Combed Out Then as the truth began to pierce his soul, he sat with starting eyes and lips that gibbered in cold fear, the while they still persisted in their fierce denial. The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware And they met betimes with this maiden, And the promise it spake and lied, And the doubt it gibbered and hugged itself, And the rainy day— she died. Afterwhiles It seemed to me that a deep and solemn hush fell for a moment upon the glory of the day, while the specter of what might have been gibbered at us for the last time. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Cottage on fire, old Hickle burnt to a cinder, and the girl hauled out of bed just in time, gibbering in French or something in panic I suppose. Leonie of the Jungle He did not struggle any more, but gibbered and whimpered piteously. Combed Out For a wondering moment they looked from their beds, sputtering, gibbering, gasping, with cautious calls one to the other. The Seeker And so this long procession of shrews passes before us, scolding and gibbering and dispensing miseries. Side Lights He was strong and agile seemingly, and he began to gibber and cuss and chatter like an ape the moment he catched sight of her. The Torch and Other Tales I love her and she loves me, you gibbering bit of fur, and d'you think anything could stand against that. Leonie of the Jungle At their approach, the monkey fled with a gibbering squeak: and Roy loosened his hold. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Two men in each gang are "splitters"; two "gibbers." American Merchant Ships and Sailors Men and women, and even young innocent children, became Funny, and danced about me in a horrible maze, and squeaked and gibbered, and tossed their jokes in my face. Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Look at us—bringing up the rear of a gibbering mob of yokels! The Miracle Man Strange sounds seemed to salute her ears, like the gibbering of ghosts, and she thought she felt the flapping of unseen wings around her. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest But he rapidly recovered and came on at me, gibbering like an incensed baboon. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative He was gibbering like an angry ape: his frame was shaking with fury: every hair in the tangle on his face and hands seemed to bristle with his Berserker frenzy. The Man with the Clubfoot Lord Hugh Cecil, his gibbering and gesticulating quite forgotten, will be assuring the House next year that the Irish are so deficient in self-restraint as to be unfit for Home Rule. The Open Secret of Ireland The room is full of phantoms which gibber at me from the dark corners, and shout the word in my ears as I shouted it that awful night when Rover kept me company. Bessie's Fortune A Novel And taking Jill's hand he crossed the square, leaving the eunuch absolutely gibbering with relief. Desert Love Fantastic phantasms fly before the light— Pale, gibbering ghosts and ghouls and goblin fears: Man who hath walked in sleep—what thousands years? The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations To do so, with all those noises fraying the edges of her brain, would be to gibber! Winnie Childs The Shop Girl But the tremors pass, the gibbering specters of fear and lamentation are thrust aside, and the sons and daughters of Great Britain answer the last roll-call with undaunted heroism. The Wings of the Morning You don't suppose I shall win this scholarship, do you, after they've seen me gibbering and mouthing at them like that? The Altar Steps I have seen seven men down with fits at the same time, making the air hideous with their cries, while as many more lunatics would be raging and gibbering up and down. The Road He accordingly approached, as slowly as possible, the spot where the spectre stood, while the figure remained, now perfectly still and silent, now brandishing its arms and gibbering to the moon. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft If a text-book in differential calculus, upon the turning of a page, had thrown problems to the winds and begun gibbering purple poems of passion, she could not have been more completely taken aback. Queed It was the sort of gibber, hoarse and rapid, and it filled them with an icy terror because it was so weird and so unnatural. The Magician A gibbering lunatic discovered dashing wildly about the chamber as if in the act of chasing invisible forms. Reviews He never came back, and I often wonder if he is dead, or if he still gibbers about his millions in some asylum for the insane. The Road Monsieur will be gibbering in his bed unless he sleeps soon. Helmet of Navarre A box on the ears then sent him gibbering into a corner. Willis the Pilot The horrid gibbering was drowned by the noise he made. The Magician He sat on the bed with the papers in his hand, gibbering. If Winter Comes He was close to a raw, naked fear, and it made him shameless as he gibbered and cowered before it. The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery King! but I will gibe and gibber at thee, till thy crown feels like another skull clapped on thy own. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II "Come out of that, you fellows," he cries, "and don't be gibbering idiots!" Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 Then all three turned around abruptly with a start, for they heard again the wild gibbering which had first shocked their ears. The Magician The chattering parrots, the hopping, gibbering, quarrelsome apes, all the birds and beasts, scream and cry and flutter and spring about, as though seeking a refuge from some impending danger. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 They fancied a legion of hobgoblins let loose upon them, and that they saw by the fitful gleams of the scattered embers, strange figures in red caps gibbering and ramping around them. Tales of a Traveller Like palls, the clouds swept to and fro, hooding the gibbering winds. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II Tell me," he said in a low tone, for footsteps passed on the creaking boards, and gibbering voices and laughter could be heard outside, "tell me, what is that man to you? Six Women But no sooner had he done this than something sprang up, so that instinctively he started back, and it began to gibber in piercing tones. The Magician Gabble, n. gibberish, babble, prate, prating, chatter, jargon. gabble, v. gibber, jabber, babble, prate, chatter. gable, n. Putnam's Word Book He found himself looking down upon a stone-paved yard filled with loathsome human wreckage—gibbering cripples, drooling monsters, vacant-eyed corpses with only the motions of life. Broken to the Plow I'm full of it—I'm a gibbering ghost, my right worshipful lord! Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II As they passed among the cliffs lining the shore, they perceived two uncanny wandering figures which, gibbering, followed them along. Mystic Christianity And at the base of this monstrous poltroon's statue the War God of Turania is now gibbering impotently. Back to Methuselah Yet when we now try to put our finger on Ali Baba he eludes the touch; when we try to lay him he starts up gibbering at Cabul, Lahore, or elsewhere. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series And then he laughed and gibbered, as if drunk With some infernal ecstasy. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini When the irrelevancy of his remarks became apparent, he was rudely howled down and his neighbors pulled him into his seat, where he gibbered and mowed inaudibly. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People There were noises that were indescribable, screeches, howls, yells, and several gibbering syllables that no one understood. Around Old Bethany A Story of the Adventures of Robert and Mary Davis Still he lay unconscious, moaning and gibbering, tossing from side to side as far as his failing strength permitted. California Sketches, Second Series The sheeted dead squeaked and gibbered in their graves; the owl hooted in the ivy. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series All the corporal's stoicism was gone; he talked wildly, crouched and gibbered in his fear, when he was suddenly roused by a heavy shock. Snarleyyow Their animal faces champed and gibbered at him; the animal smell of them made him splutter and cough. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle He approached cautiously, gibbering a little to himself. The Way of an Eagle The physicians of California have sent a host of victims raving and gibbering in drunken frenzy or idiocy down to death and hell! California Sketches, Second Series Now it would naturally be asked, Was not this captain also gibbered alive? The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) Volume II His empty lips were gibbering without a sound escaping them, and his very heart shivered with cold, for all the brassy heat of the day. The Making of a Nation The Beginnings of Israel's History A mob of them gathered on the bridge deck, gibbering and shouting, and threatening with their hands; and even before the boat drew within range, they commenced a vigorous fusilade of coal lumps. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle But she'll cry herself to sleep for your sake, you gibbering, one-armed ape. The Way of an Eagle Some small gratification was given to her, and she departed gibbering and muttering in high glee. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 But she the great mother of heroes, the shield and the sword of the weak, What lot or what part has her glory in madmen who gibber and shriek? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 23, 1890 One side of his face was working convulsively, and he was gibbering and mowing the air with his hand. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections Do you see them, son Hugo?" he cried, leaning heavily on my shoulder and pointing with his finger; "they are gibbering at me, mowing, processioning by, and pointing mockingly at me. Red Axe There were dozens like him in Ghawalkhand, but she knew him by the peculiar, gibbering movement of the wiry beard that protruded from his chuddah. The Way of an Eagle "I don't call a man cheerful because he behaves like a gibbering idiot." The Mystery of 31 New Inn They say that Sowers could only gibber back at him; and Foreman kept right on and managed some way to float himself on to the million mark. Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son There a wild noise of cries for help burst upon the air, mixed with the shrill sound of maniac gibbering. Between the Dark and the Daylight He stared at me in abject terror and gibbered inarticulately. The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta The faces before him grinned and gibbered at him like a horde of monkeys. By Advice of Counsel It is they who gibber and chatter thus at dawn, leaving me with no more self-assurance than a man on ticket-of-leave. A Tramp's Sketches We became acquainted with each other sooner than might have been expected, by reason of an exploit of the stewardess—a gibbering idiot. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil It's pretty painful to learn that the mere sight of one would turn you into a gibbering lunatic. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Yet I had no contempt for him as he gibbered with self-pity. The Soul of the War Of course not," Misery answered, sullenly: "since every troubled ghost that ever gibbered and clanked chains would rise confronting me if I made such an oath. Figures of Earth His face, as he put down the letter and turned, was that of a gibbering idiot; his lips moved, but no sound came from them. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories The common room above was packed with miserable wretches, fighting, dancing, gibbering like apes. Master Skylark In ghastly shapes they rose to view, All gibbering from their crystal caves, As if some horrid mirth they drew From the wild uproar of the waves. Poems He was bent and broken, he was singed of body and of raiment, he gibbered foolishly; he passed them by and went staggering to his cell. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Still gibbering, the Literary Adviser was hurled forth from the office and told to work his witchcraft in solitude. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917 To break the appalling silence, I began gibbering away in a jargon compound of gesticulation, English and remnants of High School French. In the Claws of the German Eagle A faint shriek was heard, and a gibbering, as of many voices, came fluttering around them. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827 When a shell burst some of them would scream and cower or start to run, but more of them would stop in their tracks and gibber and laugh and clap their hands like excited children. Fighting in Flanders Calamity Ben was moving his head restlessly from side to side, keeping up a gibbering mutter. Trailin'! There were sounds of battering upon wood, loud growls and roars, mingled with weird shrieks and screams and the strange, uncanny gibbering of brainless things. The Monster Men |
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