They had chased off the foreign emissaries, silenced the gabbling tongues of female dupes, and dispersed the assemblages, whether fanatical, visionary, or incendiary, of all that congregated to preach against evils that affected others, not themselves; and to propose remedies to aggravate the disease which they had pretended to cure.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
Davis told me while you were trying to get something out of those fellows who were all gabbling at once.
"The Boy Aviators in Africa"
Captain Wilbur Lawton
Undoubtedly I had kept my enemy thinking up till that unfortunate Sunday afternoon when I had made my fatal blunder of trying to enlist the gabbling Jock as an ally, or I should have been dead long before then.
"The Man From the Clouds"
J. Storer Clouston