Meanings of chatter like magpies in English

The others were chattering like magpies; only Will Dudley and I were silent.

They were eating their suppers, three small girls, chattering like magpies.

They walked with their arms about each other's waists, and chattered like magpies.

Several women were in the "lounge," chattering like magpies in front of the fire.

Dan and his sister were following at a distance, arm in arm and chattering like magpies.

They fell back, chattering like magpies.

As far as Beuzeville they were alone, and chattered like magpies, but at that station a couple got in.

They were chattering like magpies in Hindostanee, but I found that several of them could also speak very good English.

He and Laurie chattered like magpies over the wire and were far worse, Mrs. Fernald asserted, than any two gossipy boarding-school girls.

They tramped rather silently at first, and then, as the tense mood wore off, their tongues were loosened and they chattered like magpies.

Blue-jays were screaming among leathern-leaved oaks, and the bluer kingfishers made their long diagonal flights from side to side of the river, chattering like magpies.

On this a superb Adonis rose, with an injured look, and led Gerard into a room where sat or lolloped eleven ladies, chattering like magpies.