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English vocabulary examples in context:   babble

Vocabulary in context: babble -- Example 1.
I want to keep her to babble about the house.

Vocabulary in context: babble -- Example 2.
The good old gardener went on tranquilly with his babble:-- 'The grave is dug in the Vaugirard cemetery.'

Vocabulary in context: babble -- Example 3.
He had applied himself to riddling out the significance of the different peals, and he had succeeded, so that this taciturn and enigmatical cloister possessed no secrets for him; the sphinx babbled all her secrets in his ear.

Vocabulary in context: babble -- Example 4.
He was in his alleys from the break of day, in summer, planting, cutting, hoeing, watering, walking amid his flowers with an air of kindness, sadness, and sweetness, sometimes standing motionless and thoughtful for hours, listening to the song of a bird in the trees, the babble of a child in a house, or with his eyes fixed on a drop of dew at the tip of a spear of grass, of which the sun made a carbuncle.

Vocabulary in context: babble -- Example 5.
See, here is a pretty, healthy child, with cheeks like an apple, who babbles, prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and do you know what becomes of him when he is abandoned?

Vocabulary in context: babble -- Example 6.
I am by no means such a mirthful person as you imagine, or as you may imagine; however, irritated by all this babble (and I feel that you are irritated) you think fit to ask me who I am--then my answer is, I am a collegiate assessor.

Vocabulary in context: babble -- Example 7.
But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?

Vocabulary in context: babble -- Example 8.
I babble away and suddenly I say something clever just as they are on the look-out for it.

Vocabulary in context: babble -- Example 9.
A month earlier, under the first spell of the great project, she would babble about it to anyone she met; and even sent a paragraph to one of the Petersburg papers about the toasts and speeches arranged for her fete.

Vocabulary in context: babble -- Example 10.
Perhaps I am not reporting it quite right and don't know how to report it, but the drift of the babble was something of that sort.

Vocabulary in context: babble -- Example 11.
In fact it was disorderly, incoherent, drunken and excited babble, so it was difficult to put it together and make anything of it.

Vocabulary in context: babble -- Example 12.
Summon to your aid your reason, and cease to babble of trifles.

Vocabulary in context: babble -- Example 13.
A babble of lovers, a chattering of sparrows!

Vocabulary in context: babble -- Example 14.
As he handled pennies he babbled about the taxes, about the poor, about the people, about what was no business of his.

Vocabulary in context: babble -- Example 15.
They spoke, they cried, they babbled, they murmured in a mad dialogue of joy!

Vocabulary in context: babble -- Example 16.
Then came a day when the strength was gone from the hand, and the mind wandered, and the tongue babbled pathetic incoherences.



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