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.