"Jabber" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I could see into it as quick as I have. I couldn't say as I understand everything they say just when they're saying it; but I understand it right enough when I've had time to translate like. If foreigners didn't talk so fast and run their words one into another, and jabber as if their mouths was full of puddin', it'd be easier for them as is English. Now, there's 'wee' and 'nong.' I know 'em whenever I hear 'em, and that's ...
— T. Tembarom • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... cowboy choked and bit over his words as if they were a material poison. The Mexican showed his guilt and cowardice. He began to jabber. ...
— The Man of the Forest • Zane Grey
... him. He has no business to be so partial to you. All the difference between us is, that you can jabber Dutch a little. That isn't worth ten dollars a week extra. He's down on me for something or other; ...
— Tom, The Bootblack - or, The Road to Success • Horatio Alger
... as turns the orgin—the best I ever 'eard— Oh lor' he does just jabber, but you can't make out a word. I can't abear Italians, as allus uses knives, And talks a furrin lingo all their miserable lives. But this one calls me BELLA—which my Christian name is SUE— And 'e smiles and turns 'is orgin very proper, that he do. Sometimes 'e plays ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 30, 1892 • Various
... said Tom, in the same tone as before. "Just fancy a chap like you turned into an officer. You can jabber a few words of French, and may have picked up a smattering of navigation on board the Foxhound, though I've a notion you must pretty well have forgotten all you knew by this time, and you may be fond of books, but all that won't turn a fellow who has come out of the gutter, as one may say, into ...
— From Powder Monkey to Admiral - A Story of Naval Adventure • W.H.G. Kingston
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