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The most obvious sign is the increasing chatter about a second referendum.
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A certain amount of preliminary social chatter was required at this point.
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There were hints of it in the social chatter of the papers.
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The chatter this year is that it's the best start in decades.
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Around this industry, large numbers had gathered simply to watch and chatter.
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Rick listens to her prattle on for several minutes, and then apologizes.
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Another week and time again for you to indulge my incorrigible prattle.
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Even babies echoed the names of our two heroes in their prattle.
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He pauses seriously to thank them in the midst of his prattle.
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But to my pleasing task; again let me prattle to my friend.
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It made a gratifying clackety-clack sound every time I took a step.
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The lickity-clack of the wheels on the track gobbled up the minutes.
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And with them new high heels on the sidewalk clack, clack, clack.
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He heard teeth snapping open and closed, a horrific clack, clack, clack.
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He slammed the door and Judy heard the bolt clack into place.
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People will not accept free seeds without a certain amount of palaver.
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Spaghetti or any long ribbon pasta, in contrast, is a right palaver.
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Now dey lib for Congo, dey not like the idea of soldier-palaver.
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They continued their palaver throughout the afternoon and into the early evening.
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One undeniable thing in this palaver is the Russian reputation for glamour.
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When the meal was over, the children sate together in whispering tattle.
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Is not this better than the indulgence in perpetual trifling and tattle?
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They cabal, and tattle, and hiss, and cackle comminations under their breath.
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But asking a little girl to tattle on her friends seemed monstrous.
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Social tattle and friendly interchange are not the only component, however.
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One has only to blab in his cups and it all collapses.
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Breanne will blab everything to her friends, to people at the party.
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You let me blab about the soft places, about my family's secrets.
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He would blab to my daddy, and I would get a whuppin'.
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You blab to my wife, and I'll be as good as dead.
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Not that I'm buyin' this technical twaddle for one minute, you understand.
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Whoever, in a respected publishing house, was responsible for such whimsical twaddle?
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They are too sensible to indulge in mere twaddle about the weather.
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We forget the immense amount of twaddle that the great epochs produced.
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The solemn unction with which he pronounced this twaddle is beyond description.
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There followed a tedious debate, a muddy flow of gabble and balderdash.
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Shawn began to gabble with amazing speed and in a mighty voice:
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Abolitionists sneered at all this gabble about the sacredness of the Constitution.
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There was a brave gabble of tongues enough when I came in.
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You were reciting some gabble on the steps a little bit ago.
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We prate much of the family as the unit of the state.
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We prate a lot about the fair sex and its sweet vanities.
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The hardest part for a soldier to play is to prate well.
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Quoth the Khalif, Thou shalt not forestall me with talk and prate.
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But we prate like gossiping river-men.-Wiltsee the Skimmer of the Seas?
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I am much obliged for your help, but you are talking piffle.
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Listen: Instead of all this impossible piffle, let's start a real story.
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One hoarse raucous piffle and three sharp decisive puffs for your arguments!
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He wasted money, energy and wrote piffle, was his damning verdict.
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The leader of the boys said: Aw, piffle, cut it out.
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Tyson could speak, Tyson could write, where other men maunder and drivel.
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Apian continued to maunder over the Ptolemaic theory and astrology in his lecture-room.
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And while you maunder about restoring competition, the trusts go on destroying you.
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All of which it is a comfort somehow to maunder away on here.
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That is what his life has turned, but he will not maunder about it.
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And I started to blabber about how much she meant to me.
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So, this was interestingtwo attorneys, an accountant, and a TV blabber person.
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Why, you rotten, double-crossing, blabber-mouthed little tramp, I ought to kill you!
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God knows, we're sure to hear enough of that blabber today.
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Either way, you don't want to blabber along in a message about your cat's whole day.
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Do you expect me to allow scandalous tittle-tattle to be spread about Town?
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The General Here you see the effect of all this tittle-tattle.
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This, however, is not mere tittle-tattle or tabloid fodder about romance.
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Herein lies the secret of the avarice and tittle-tattle that poison provincial life.
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And Minister, here's some juicy tittle-tattle we gathered for you earlier.
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A monkey chained in one corner began to gibber and mow at me.
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After that he will be left to gibber his visions to padded walls.
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The salinae scream and gibber, desperate to communicate what they know.
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He ached with desire to express and could but gibber prosaically as everybody gibbered.
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Does she ask why? the assassin began to gibber.
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See those things that ape our species dance and gibber round the famishing, hunted wretch.
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Never a word they said, never a sound from the mouths that seemed to gibber.
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From morn to night, and from night to morn, she would gibber: I am Mme.
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I can't bear it! He continued to gibber unintelligibly.
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An oubliette, a shit-hole dungeon where they gibber for months until they go piss-pants insane.
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It reached his mouth, which began to gibber silently.
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The eyes would follow the movements of the spectator, and the lips would 'gibber without ceasing.'
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To do so, with all those noises fraying the edges of her brain, would be to gibber!
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They will not be laid; they reappear; they gibber; they make themselves known whether we will or not.
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Lots of meat on his bones, said one of the ghouls as the others began to gibber and drool.
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Come to me and bless me; and when these fools cackle and gibber, I shall know how to protect my wife.