" "That coon, for instance," interrupted Smith, "that came so near getting shot by his chattering.

Then, in the cool evenings, men, women, and children, with their capacity for dirt greatly increased by the soft resin with which they are all bedraggled, form circles around camp-fires, on the bank of the nearest stream, and lie in easy independence cracking nuts and laughing and chattering, as heedless of the future as the squirrels.

Then, perchance, while we gaze awe-stricken, along comes a merry squirrel, chattering and laughing, to break the spell, running up the trunk with no ceremony, and gnawing off the cones as if they were made only for him; while the carpenter-woodpecker hammers away at the bark, drilling holes in which to store his winter supply of acorns.

They were driven by a little boy called Tommy, the son of one of Mr. Wood's farm laborers, and they were chattering and gabbling, and seemed very angry.

In the darkness I could hear the fellow's teeth chattering, and I wondered whether a man ever had such a partner in a desperate enterprise.

We would trust them no more after that, but the Bart moved his men to the front of the inn, and I mine to the back, the English all scowling and silent, and our fellows shaking their fists and chattering, each after the fashion of their own people.

They looked very angry at first, but finally concluded that they had not been poisoned and had only "sold" themselves, they huddled together and went out chattering and laughing, leaving my mother a good share of her day's work to do over again.

They attacked the laced soldier, chattering furiously, grumbling at him, intimidating him with the charming gestures of spoilt and pouting children.

She awaits him, chattering with her teeth and lips with an expression of joy.

" "Go on in, then," Jack replied, his teeth chattering with the cold.

So as they bore him along, chattering on like jays and cranes, he said again to the women next him: Fair ones, who are you, and where are you taking me, and why in the world are you so greatly delighted to see me?

The other two were chattering like parrots.

Only don't let's ask a whole lot of chattering young people that we don't know; let's have the older people, the ones that can talk about something really worth while.

The uniforms had climbed to the deck and were chattering in a bastard patois behind him; now and then the smell of the town struck across the smells of the sea and the bush like the flick of a snake's tail.

She could not keep her teeth from chattering.

'Our ways lie together as far as my house,' he said, with a slight chattering of his teeth.

he said, with his teeth chattering.

Marcia, with some difficulty, was able to say, through her chattering teeth, "You seem to take a deep interest in this weak-minded person.

We lay opposite the Doria palace, and the constellation of villas and towers still glittered along the hills; but who, with his teeth chattering and limbs numb and damp, could feel pleasure in looking on Elysium itself?

While he was saying this, he was working away skinning off the hides and getting the meat ready to carry to camp, all the time talking to the fox, who stood about, his back humped up and his teeth chattering with the cold.

Greatly startled, he saw them hungering for this vastness, this beauty and peace; yet enchanted among little things, condemned to chattering and pecking at each other, and through interminable centuries to tread dim hot ways of spite and weariness, cruelty and nervous pain.

"She screamed like a mad woman, and ran down-stairs in her nightdress, chattering so we could hardly understand her."

As they moved toward the house,Mr. Taine choking and coughing, his daughter chattering and exclaiming, and James Rutlidge critically observing,Mrs. Taine dropped a little back to Aaron King's side.

I can't for the life of me see why any one with a whole new world to explore should hang around chattering with this one.

CRAWLEY, RAYBURN, pseud. Chattering gods, by Rayburn Crawley, pseud.