Their gabbling was feverish- things said to quiet their own minds.

All that gabbling and panic with the passengers.

I know that, for my part, the last days of that gabbling were as stimulating as the first.

"What is a little gabbling between friends?

The gabbling of the water mitigated the noise of the crickets.

The three-day shriek died down into a gabbling, then a sobbing, then a silence.

The huge pool, behind woven fencing, was a gabbling, shrieking, belly-whomping mass of kids.

The gabbling, squeaking and giggling din filled our ears.

And Peter Evans did a fine job with the gabbling, quacking solo trumpet line.

The steel spider threads started very slowly through-and a highpitched gabbling came out of the horn.

"Cut out all this gabbling.

But they were all too busy gabbling over their fallen comrades, and pointing toward the evac module bobbing quietly in the water.

Who's been doing the gabbling!'

Presently the gabbling resumed.

Robinton glanced around him, wondering who had spoken amazed that so soft a voice had reached him over the gabbling.

"Stop your gabbling."

Only the 'comic' gabbling of alleged joker Jones spoils the mood, but this is still a pleasant way to spend a couple of hours.

As she neared the west end of the parade ground and the Shaws' house, she began to hear a mute gabbling, the many voices kept low.

My friend walked close beside me, asking many silly questions about the country from which I had come, until finally his fellows paid no further attention to him or his gabbling.

The other lies in the fact that it inevitably arouses the envy and ill-nature of those who cannot adopt it, and so causes a gabbling of scandal.

He was aware of the gabbling of his bruised fellow passengers only as he might have noticed the twittering of birds when he walked past a hedge on important business.

I didn't mind his gabbling at me, but something diabolical darkened his eyes when he looked at my daughter, and I could see that she felt it too, the darkness like a bad smell.

All day ducks came slanting in--sometimes there were a thousand or more of them on the river at once; their gabbling kept me awake and fear of storms kept G.T. awake.

Then, sure that all was safe, Honker gave a low signal and at once a low gabbling began as the big birds relaxed their watchfulness and came out on the sandy bar, all save one.

Every soul was awake by then, he heard a babble of terrified voices and a frantic gabbling of prayers, and Prior Robert, slow and sleepy, demanding querulously who dared so disturb the peace.

Come on, you've gabbled enough and you're just trying to put me off my game.

"I mean that the men gabble more than the women."

I never thought it'd make so much difference,' she gabbled.

They began trying to bring the woman around, gabbling at one another too fast for me to follow.

Managed to gabble something out before he got away from me, and we tried it again.

I never hear your voice but know Some geese are gabbling.

He did not know how much to accept of the crazy story she had gabbled.

He was told to stop gabbling and pick up that shovel.

Gabbling among themselves, they began to steal in that direction.

There was a man standing next to him, gabbling out explanations of what the something might be.

Steve gabbled at him, and he began to paddle toward us.

The old woman gabbled again but Simon did not translate.

When the poor things first come here they gabble away like geese, although the children can soon speak well enough.

And Jane gabbled on, relieved to have found some course of action.

They gabbled at the man with the gun, and he stepped aside.

He gabbled off the rest with a few careless gestures.

You don't have to gabble like me to relate to people.

I want to think and I cannot do it with you gabbling.

The man gabbled something else; David listened to him, frowning.

"Will you stop gabbling and get to the point," the marquess was saying.

The others gabbled on to each other about all the tourist sights they had seen that day.

I gabbled for a second as shock and rage choked my words.

His right seater was gabbling in the radio as he decided not to take the chance.

He was exhausted and gabbling like a drunk when she woke him.

The young ladies gabbled over the lesson, wrote an exercise, and read a little French history.

Let's cut out the gabble and get down to cases.

This time he could not understand even a few words of its gabble.

Do we want to go out to the tune of that gabble?

In this gabble, no one three paces away could have made out a word.

There followed a gabble of which I understood about one word in three.

Seemed to make more sense out of my gabble than I did at the time."

All eyes turned in their direction, and the gabble of voices died quickly away to nothing.

"Why, she could make any gabble, say it meant anything!"

What she said seemed to the two strangers to be absolute gabble.

"He wants to know what the crazy gabble is that you're talking.

The voices rose, lost words, became a gabble of rage.

A moment later the same voice called, in a thick gabble he could not understand, some summons.

He heard their voices, the excited gabble of speculation, but not the words.

Then he grunted and tried to speak, the words coming out all wrong, in meaningless gabble.

A sharp distant gabble of voices made her start nervously.

Then the gabble started again, but loud and angry.

But also there was a secondary gabble, like a blurred echo following.

The truck passed me in a roar and gabble of insults.

The gabble continued, not repeating itself word for word but always saying the same thing.

When the reverberations ceased, the gabble of the audience also did.

"Enough of this gabble about what may be or must be.

A gabble of voices rose, and lights flashed on the panel.

The gathering around the two priests broke up in a gabble of voices.

There was a good deal more gabble and gobble in this same vein.