Do we say babble or babel

babble 161 occurrences

And soon its whispering would mingle with the babble of the delivered spring as it descended along the trenches to the dry hot lands.

And there is yet the first tooth, forcing its way like a needle-point through rosy gums; and there is also the first stammered word, the "pa-pa," the "mam-ma," which one is quite ready to detect amid the vaguest babble, though it be but the purring of a kitten, the chirping of a bird.

He liked to babble of his own cuteness; he liked to sit upon a sugar barrel in the village store and talk of savoury viands, so to speak, and sparkling wines in the presence of fellow-citizens who lacked bread and water, particularly water.

Time passed; he remained oblivious to the babble of voices.

It was one perpetual babble in praise of their horses, their donkeys, and their capabilities as guides, with the constant repetition of the names of the surrounding peaks, which we already knew perfectly well.

Compare the poets that babble of green fields with those who deal in the actions and passions of men, such as Shakspeare, and it must be confessed that it is not those who have looked at external nature who are the true poets, but those who have seen and considered most about the business and bosom of man.

She was turning again, when a babble of voices answered the orderly's announcement.

8. Item, that she made rhetoric wanton, logic to babble, astronomy to lie.

algarabía, f., jargon, babble, clatter, hubbub. algazara, f., rejoicing, shout(s), shouting. algo, something, anything, some what; es , something is better than nothing; that is something.

It is like a babble of the gigantic infancy of the world.]

From five yards beneath my window ledge came the shuffle, shuffle of unending feet, the creak and groans of heavy cart wheels, the talk and babble of guttural tongues, the yelp of hounds, as the thousands moved and wept and surged and jostled along throughout the night and into the uncertain mist of that October morning.

They would have the whole thing cut open in a week once they got into some port with their pockets full of sovereigns and their skins full of rum, and their mouths full of babble in the public houses of their wealth and how smart they be.

What idle babble, then, is this theory of a third Confederacy, to be constructed out of the middle Atlantic States and the Northwest!

And by and by the people, when they met In twos and threes, or fuller companies, Began to scoff and jeer and babble of him As of a prince whose manhood was all gone, And molten down in mere uxoriousness.

I cannot understand those pacifists who talk about the German right to "expansion," and babble about a return of her justly lost colonies.

Catherine's step awoke him; the awaking was painful, and he couldn't collect his thoughts enough to answer Catherine; and feeling that he must appear to her daft, he tried to speak, but his speech was only babble.

As the train rolled on and the babble of voices about them joined the crunching rumble of the wheels, he wanted to lean close to her and tell her how a few hours had changed the world for him.

I have let others babble, and have done as I saw fit.

And those demolished shops, were they once filled with the babble of the traders?

" "We are not very likely to babble," retorted Penelope.

If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style; which I, who can never wish to see dependance multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France.

He may sigh for his country, and babble about it; but he might as well sit quiet and read or tell old stories; the past is as important to him as the future.

The music ceased; there was naught of sound, but a babble of voice and soft, gay laughter.

Somebody or other has known them from the sapling upward; and if they endure long enough, they grow to be traditionally observed and honored, and connected with the fortunes of old families, till, like Tennyson's Talking Oak, they babble with a thousand leafy tongues to ears that can understand them.

Julius took her in his arms, Anne held her feet, and thus they carried her up the stairs, and along the passage, hearing Frank's husky rapid babble all the way, and finding him struggling with the fierce strength of delirium against Jenkins, who looked as if he thought them equally senseless, when he saw his helpless mistress carried in.

babel 319 occurrences

Now of a sudden above the hiss of flame, from the valley of Brand a cry went upa shouta roar of fear and amaze and thereafter rose a wild clamour; a babel inarticulate, split, ever and anon, by frantic trumpet-blast.

Behind me came the confused babel of struggling men.

God grant that we, who have just seen the most cunningly organized and daintily bedizened specimen of a world, which ever flaunted on the earth since men began to build their towers of Babel, collapse and crumble at a single blow, may take God's hint, that the fashion of this world passeth away.

It is said that Kai-káús applied himself much to the study of astronomy, and that he founded two great observatories, the one at Babel, and the other on the Tigris.]

Gebir, my old free-mason, and prince of plasterers at Babel, bring in your trowel, most Ancient Grand!

'So longed the founders of Babel,' answered Argemone, carelessly, to this tirade.

'From the Babel society sprung our architecture, our astronomy, politics, and colonisation.

Men are all conservatives; everything new is impious, till we get accustomed to it; and if it fails, the mob piously discover a divine vengeance in the mischance, from Babel to Catholic Emancipation.' Lancelot had stuttered horribly during the latter part of this most heterodox outburst, for he had begun to think about himself, and try to say a fine thing, suspecting all the while that it might not be true.

only the young who can sleep through the bright hours of a summer's mornand a discussion on the programme of the day was being carried on with a babel of voices and much laughter.

The shops and the landscapethe cosmopolitan crowd with its Babel of many tonguesthe great hotels, built of stucco in the nouveau-riche style so rasping to sensitive nervesthe striped awnings, the low balconies, the gaudy house-frontsall these our heroines looked at and commented on and revelled in with the joy of fresh and unspoiled youth.

Perhaps the first great monument which arose after the deluge of Noah was the Tower of Babel, built probably of brick.

Latin he accounts the language of the beast with seven heads; and when he speaks of his own country, cries, he is fled out of Babel.

It is a heap of stones and men, with a vast confusion of languages; and were the steeple not sanctified, nothing liker Babel.

Some of the buildings appeared to be as high as the Tower of Babel.

But as the crew settled down into the well-known long sweep, consciousness returned, and, amid all the babel of voices on the bank, he could hear Hardy yelling, "Steady!

On the hotel terraces and in the little cafés and tea rooms, one hears a babel of voices, every nation of Europe seeming to speak in its own native tongue.

Through their constant echoing roar in her ears she heard but dimly the babel of talk that aroseAunt

When we came to the Golden Horn, she pointed to my caique which lay at the Old Seraglio steps, and over the water we went, she lying quite at ease now, with her face at the level of the water in the centre of the crescent-shape, as familiarly as a hanum of old engaged in some escapade through the crowded Babel of Galata and that north side of the Horn.

What a Babel-jargon it would make of the Bible to take it for granted that the sense in which words are now used is the inspired sense, David says, "I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried."

Scarce was I in bed, ere the house rang again with laughing and romping just outside my door; black and white, old and young, male and female, all seemed chorusing togetherfeet clattered, passages echoedit was a very Babel of noise and confusion.

There was a perfect babel of bird-talk, the jaunty blond males all making pretty speeches to the gentle brown-haired females, who laughed merry little bird-laughs in return.

My son Theodore was then busy collecting the materials for his book entitled "The Woman Question in Europe," and every post brought in manuscripts and letters from all parts of the continent, written in almost every tongue known to Babel.

And there the conversation ended: they had reached the plaza, and a babel of voices surrounded them.

It was a babel of obscene Frisco curses: but I remember one clear sentence of hers from the din "You, you!

Pitch the day aright with this tuning-fork, and hush the babel-voices of the world to its tones of peace at night.

Do we say   babble   or  babel