Doña Victorina, the only lady seated in the European group, could say whether the Tabo was not lazy, disobedient, and capriciousDoña Victorina, who, nervous as ever, was hurling invectives against the cascos, bankas, rafts of coconuts, the Indians paddling about, and even the washerwomen and bathers, who fretted her with their mirth and chatter.

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.

All he has to do is to chatter.

On the inside, half a dozen repeating rifles began to chatter, and the Mandells, jammed in the confined space, were powerless.

This silence did not arise from slowness of thought, but from the chatter of the others.

" Then, as Bobby started to protest, Maria entered, more dazzling than at dinner; and the dancers swayed less boisterously, the chatter at the tables subsided, the orchestra seemed to hesitate as a sort of obeisance.

Sylvia shrank into herself and waited an instant with suspended breath for the pause in the chatter and laughter which it seemed must follow.

She was abstracted obviously for the simple reason that she had something on her mind, something not altogether to her liking, judging from the uneasy color which came and went in her face, by her rattling, senseless flow of chatter, by her fidgeting, unnecessary adjustments of the mechanism of the car.

She kept up an incessant chatter, repeating her thanks to Cadmus for his kindness, and binding him more completely captive every minute.

" Through all this apparently aimless chatter, Miss Jennie Whitney was using her wits.

The chatter from the other end of the room grew louder.

Afterwards, won't they chatter!

The veranda was jammed with tables, corks hitting the ceiling, glasses clinking, and Spanish, French, English, and Tahitian confused in the chatter and the shouts of To Sen, Hon Son, the maids, and a dozen friends of the hostess who always came at such times to share the glory of the service.

After dinner and a prolonged session upon the camphor-wood chest to hear Lovaina's chatter, I came leisurely to the Annexe along the shore of the lagoon.

But we chatter of trifles, when it is time to think of serious things.

But now, when that Gazette in which I read (To learn its views on any given matter And so avoid 'em) hints that no such breed Exists among us, save in idle chatter, I am convinced the country reeks With these unnatural and noisome freaks.

It earned a living in its day and, if revived in ours, might happily supersede much modern chatter about art and technique.

Then onto one of the few late night drinking establishments: a seedy corrugated bunker alive with the chatter of civil servants, cops and journalists.

Her cheeks are rosy and shining, and she keeps up an incessant chatter.

He is jealous because I have not listened to his chatter.

He had enjoyed listening to Miss Bubbles' cheerful, inconsequent chatter.

My feather-brained chatter must often have bored her, but she apparently was ever interested in it.

All the hitching-posts along the streets would have horses tied to them, and inside, the house would be buzzing like a bee-hive with the chatter of that rustic gentry.

Accustomed as he was to the commonplace chatter of his mother's friends, and still under the influence of this meeting, which had so deeply disturbed him, the poor boy imagined himself in the presence of a sage in skirtsa philosopher under the disguise of female beauty come from beyond the Pyrenees, from some gloomy German alehouse perhaps, to upset his peace of mind.

There was a difference between the chatter of civilized men and the deliberations of barbarians.