1 Then there was an excited babble of negro voices in the darkness of the yard and high-pitched negro laughter.
2 The house seemed bursting with the crowd, and a ceaseless babble of talking and laughter and giggles and shrill feminine squeaks and screams rose and fell.
3 In the darkness he saw visions of a thousand-tongued fear that would babble at his back and cause him to flee, while others were going coolly about their country's business.
4 When, however, they began to pass into a new region, his old fears of stupidity and incompetence reassailed him, but this time he doggedly let them babble.
5 And therefore the tongues about him had ceased their babble.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 6 A violent babble of uncouth sounds burst out on the other side of the planks.
7 She was glad even to babble to Clifford.
8 Remember, if you talk, if you babble, if you get drunk, you risk your master's head, who has so much confidence in your fidelity, and who answers for you.
9 There followed an incomprehensible, interwoven babble of shouts and replies and calls of agreement.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContext Highlight In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter 10 Scarlett heard the cheerful babbling voice going on and on but she did not hear the words.
11 It was only that he was drunk and sick from strain and his mind was running wild, like a man delirious, babbling wild fantasies.
12 Emboldened by this, the Captain reiterated his demand to the rest, but Steelkilt shouted up to him a terrific hint to stop his babbling and betake himself where he belonged.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 13 The man at the youth's elbow was babbling.
14 The babbling man was grazed by a shot that made the blood stream widely down his face.
15 Infamy was babbling around her in the public market-place.