10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GABBLEMENT»
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Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases, ...
This is an old word, and still has a place in the provincial glossaries of England.
GABBLEMENT. Gabble. A Southern word. " This court's got as good ears as any
man," said the magistrate, " but they aint for to hear no old woman's gabblement,
...
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Dictionary of Americanisms, 2nd ed. enlarged
G. Gabblement. Gabble, prate. A Southern word. " This court 's got as good ears
as any man," said the magistrate; " but they aint for to hear no old woman's
gabblement, though it 's under oath." — Chron. ofPine- ville. Gad. A long stick or
switch ...
John Russell Bartlett, 1859
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BARTLETT'S DICTIONARY OF AMERICANISMS
Fyke. (Dutch, fuik, a weel, bow-net.) The large bow-nets in New York harbor,
used for catching shad, are called shad-fykes. G. Gabblement. Gabble, prate. A
Southern word. " This court 's got as good ears as any man," said the magistrate; "
but ...
JOHN RUSSELL BARTLETT, 1859
... they rush to the attack, thousands strong, with brandished cutlasses and fusils,
with caperings, shoutings and vociferation,—which, if the White Volunteer
Company stands firm, dwindle into staggerings, into quick gabblement, into panic
flight ...
... with brandished cutlasses and fusils, with caperings, shoutings and
vociferation, — which, if the White Volunteer Company stands firm, dwindle -into
staggerings, into quick gabblement, into panic flight at the first volley, perhaps
before it.
arisen as it were under his hand, a stripling not only versed as himself in indifi'
erent Latin and bad German, but accomplished in the gabblement of French, and
super-endowed with a lisping smattering of English; having followed the classes
at ...
Catherine Grace Frances Gore, 1833
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Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His ...
Meanwhile do but mark how sluggishly it loiters. Yesterday I returned (to Jermyn
Street), found the family coach at the door, and all in the act of drawing on gloves
to go out-, except the Duke, with whom, after some gabblement with the others, ...
James Anthony Froude, 2011
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The French Revolution: The constitution
... with brandished cutlasses and fusils, with caperings, shoutings and
vociferation, — which, if the White Volunteer Company stands firm, dwindle into
staggerings, into quick gabblement, into panic flight at the first volley, perhaps
before it.
... rising moon," (" oh, confound your poetry," said Rubiochico,) " which was fast
swamping the sparkling stars, like a bright river flowing over diamonds, when the
old gander again set up his gabblement and trumpeted more loudly than before.
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Polish tales, by the authoress of 'Hungarian tales'.
arisen as it were under his hand, a stripling not only versed as himself in
indifferent Latin and bad German, but accomplished in the gabblement of French,
and super-endowed with a lisping smattering of English ; having followed the
classes at ...
Catherine Grace F. Gore, 1833
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GABBLEMENT»
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Clinton's ambitions are doomed
If you grow up as far South as I did you have no trouble imagining the “gabblement” going on right now. “That Bill, now he's done swung himself ... «WND.com, May 15»
