How that old lady did smile and (as she herself laughingly said) "gabble" her delight!. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands] Reference
"When I 'read the minutes' I just reach back in my mind and recall what the gabble was the night before -- I've got an awfully good memory. From Wordnik.com. [Tunnel In The Sky]
'gabble'; he gets 'beyond drivelling' into something more like. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
Our youngsters were quite pat at stage gabble, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
Was ever heard such endless and aimless gabble yet. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870] Reference
I played badly -- I never can play when they gabble. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
One of the certificants interrupted with loud gabble. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
I no longer wanted to gabble, but just to talk my way out. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
People say it's the Old Tongue, but it's goose gabble to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Rising]
"What's this gabble to do with me?" broke in Sally, disdainfully. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
In this gabble, no one three paces away could have made out a word. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Rising]
There was a wild gabble of voices, over the supper table that night. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
When I put it to my ear, all I heard was a wild gabble of male voices. From Wordnik.com. [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]
There followed a gabble of which I understood about one word in three. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
“What business have they to gabble about what they know nothing of?”. From Wordnik.com. [On Forsyte 'Change] Reference
Snudge spoke softly so they would be obliged to listen rather than gabble. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
As likely understand the barking of dogs as learn anything from their gabble. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
"Ah, well! if you listen to their gabble, you have time to lose," said another. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Now they all began to gabble at once, and Amelia pounded frantically for order. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch] Reference
I suppose that's because you gabble such a lot of French to Marie, isn't it, Una?. From Wordnik.com. [The Gap in the Fence] Reference
Jenkins tried to warn her, tried to say “No,” but heard himself gabble instead. From Wordnik.com. [The Flood]
He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and said “gabble, gabble, gabble!”. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Conrads Crusade]
"I move we get thawed out while we gabble," she proposed, with her deep, husky chuckle. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference
Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night?. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850] Reference
And now he mouthed a gabble of words which was echoed by his fellow sitting with Soriki. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
He felt certain now that the rest would, too, and the room broke into an excited gabble. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Again]
It was no consolation to realize that the sheq corpses had attracted the gabble-duck here. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
York, where a worn-out FERNANDO WOOD and others like him gabble as much treason as they dare. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
You ought to have heard us gabble when we found those five-dollar gold pieces in our baskets!. From Wordnik.com. [Polly and the Princess] Reference
Lorena didn't understand their gabble, but it was clear some wanted to gamble and some didn't. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
The gabble-gabble which bore no resemblance to any language Terra knew boiled out of the phones. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
I don't think we're going to do gabble-to-gabble (ph) coverage again in the history of politics. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2004] Reference
Mongolians are ever coming down, but the gabble of tongues above shows that a host is still left. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
He looked at the first line of the first message he had copied: gabble retchets yeth wisht hounds. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Haunting]
The result was a frightened gabble and four limbs trying desperately to move away from the cup. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Conrads Crusade]
‘Ochenta Parka Lana, speenister … ’ He broke down, he read out several lines in a rapid gabble in his own tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Tour de Force]
Here is his scornful dissection, when he is alone onstage, of his father's gabble about eclipses and their 'sequent effects'. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
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