There's nothing gained by being witty: Fame Gathers but winde to blather up a name.

V. be loquacious &c adj.; talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter^, blether^; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, twattle; babble, gabble; outtalk; talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse; expatiate &c (speak at length) 573; gossip &c (converse) 588; din in the ears &c (repeat) 104; talk at random, talk nonsense &c 497; be hoarse with talking.

The Press Bureau withholds records of shining courage at the front lest they should enlighten the enemy, but gives full publicity to those Who give us words in lieu of deeds, Content to blather while their country bleeds.

Peether is full of blather.

Peether is full of blather.

" Histrio all blague and blather, Is it not pity, rather, One Frenchman should foregather With him in selfish pact? In selfish pactbut silly.

Poor Roger granes, till hollow echoes ring; But blither Patie likes to laugh and sing.

In those proud days, he little cared For husbandry or tillage; To blither tasks did Simon rouse 15 The sleepers of the village.

Not blither is the mountain roe; With many a wanton stroke Her feet disperse the powdery snow, That rises up like smoke.

Greener grew the road, balmier blew the wind, and blither sang the birds, as he went on, enjoying his holiday with the zest of a boy, until he reached a most attractive little path winding away across the fields.

He could perceive, also, as plainly as if he were in that other room, the deep ardent eyes of the prince downbent upon the blither ones, the commanding figure of the man near that other slender, almost illusive presence.

A glow came forth to meet me From the flame that laughed in the grate, And shadows a-dance on the ceiling Danced blither with mine for a mate.

A blither spectacle than the vigour with which he sets about the task, it were hard to fancy.

There had never been a blither setting off from the Giant's Cairn.

The knight and the lady were greatly at their ease; a comelier and a blither pair were never seen.

It was blither, too.

But as the sun comes up, behold the spirits evaporate, the films pass away from my eyes, and I am lighter, blither, happier, stronger.

A blither spectacle than the vigour with which he sets about the task, it were hard to fancy.

Not blither is the mountain roe: 25 With many a wanton stroke Her feet disperse the powdery snow, That rises up like smoke.

What he thought, however, could not have been told from his manner, for he had never seemed in a blither mood as he shook hands and presented himself to Sally in the capacity of one of her right-hand men.

BUT ISN'T IT RATHER A LOT OF BLITHER ABOUT BRIGHTER CRICKET?"]

Miss Dunreddin was already off on her pleasuring, he took the gray little governess for duenna, and a blither three never sat out a tragedy, or laughed over wine and oysters in the midst of a garden with its flowers and fountains afterwards.