"Jabbering" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... servant answered him in French, which Alonzo did not understand: he replied in his own language, but found it was unintelligible to the servant. A grave middle aged gentleman then came to the door from within the room and ended their jabbering at each other: he, in the English language, desired Alonzo to walk in. It was an apartment, neatly furnished; no person was therein except the gentleman and servant before mentioned, and a person who sat writing in a corner of the room, with his ...
— Alonzo and Melissa - The Unfeeling Father • Daniel Jackson, Jr.
... being here who is not a jabbering idiot?" he cried in English. "Keep back, you fools, and let the man have a chance ...
— For Fortune and Glory - A Story of the Soudan War • Lewis Hough
... but his life, he had some hope that his enemies might at least spare him that. They were jabbering to one another at a great rate, trying on, putting off, and exchanging first one article and then another of the spoils they had won. They did not appear to think that the new chum was worth looking after any longer. So he began slinking away slowly towards his ...
— The Book of the Bush • George Dunderdale
... Italian. It was Irene who translated the orders shouted at them by a brigandish- looking soldier, and they had to pull off in the direction of a smaller pier where Mrs. Haxton and Captain Stump had already disembarked in the midst of a crowd of jabbering natives. ...
— The Wheel O' Fortune • Louis Tracy
... lot more," he said; "but I can't remember it. I learned some queer jargon from Chris, and how to make most of the signs belonging to the Indian sign-talk. The fellow had more of his mother than his father in him. I guess I'd better give over jabbering, and cook our breakfast." ...
— Camp and Trail - A Story of the Maine Woods • Isabel Hornibrook
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