How Miss Slayback, by habit not gregarious, met Mr. Batch is of no consequence, except to those snug ones of us to whom an introduction is the only means to such an end.

Galaxy, galleon, garrulity, gesticulate, gormand, granivorous, grandiloquent, gravamen, gratuitous, gregarious, habitue, hallucination, harbinger, hardihood, heckle, hectic, hedonist, hegemony, heinous, herbivorous, heretic, hermaphrodite, heterodox, heterogeneous, hibernate.

It is gregarious in its habits, associating in flocks of two or three hundred, delighting in marshy grounds, and at night perching upon trees, or on high situations.

For the majority of human beings are gregarious.

He was acquainted with a great many people; he had a recognized social standing, was somewhat cleverer than the average man, and his instincts, while refined by education and experience, were decidedly gregarious and toward hearty companionship.

She had always been a gregarious little girl; once more her nursery was a merry, even an hilarious, place.

Generous and weak natures are prone to pass without transition from one extreme to another; so from an intensely gregarious feeling Clerambault had jumped at one bound to the extreme of individual isolation.

The fiction writers were gregarious, given to loud laughter.

For my part, I always did hate gregarious eating: it is well enough for animals, in pasture or pen; but a thing that has so little that is graceful or dignified about it as this taking food, especially as the thing is done here in America, ought, in my opinion, to be a solitary act.

My anti-leave-taking foible is certainly not so much affected when I quit the residence of an hotelthat public homethat wearisome resting-placethat epitome of the worldthat compound of gregarious incompatibilitiesthat bazaar of characterthat proper resort of semi-social egotism and unamalgable individualitiesthat troublous haven, where the vessel may ride and tack, half-sheltered, but finds no anchorage.

All gregarious animals are extremely quick at learning terrors from one another.

Gregarious animals are quickly alive to their mutual signals; it is beautiful to watch great flocks of birds as they wheel in their flight and suddenly show the flash of all their wings against the sky, as they simultaneously and suddenly change their direction.

On the other hand, deer and sheep, which are both gregarious, and both eat the same food and graze within the same enclosure, avoid one another.

When animals are not gregarious, they are to the herdsman like a falling necklace of beads whose string is broken, or as a handful of water escaping between the fingers.

The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal.

Now, in human societies, and already among gregarious animals, one of the main conditions of survival was common sentiment and behaviour.

And thenwell, Lord knows what may happen then, Unlessunlessand that is most improbable Ratepayers rise togethershow they're men, And not mere sheep gregarious, warm-fleeced, robbable.

In this neighborhood there were multitudes of the big, gregarious, crepuscular or nocturnal spiders which I have before mentioned.

With the chapadao we said good-by to the curious, gregarious, and crepuscular or nocturnal spiders which we found so abundant along the line of the telegraph wire.

The ambitious man goes from the village to the city; the lover of nature seeks the wilds; the misanthrope avoids his fellowmen, the gregarious man gravitates to crowds.

I have few gregarious instincts, I suppose.

In autumn Bustards are gregarious, when they leave the open downs for more sheltered situations.

After leaving the bottoms of the creek, Tiburcio showed the young man a trail made by the javeline, and he was surprised to learn that an animal with so small a foot was a dangerous antagonist, on account of its gregarious nature.

An empty shop in the Rue Jean Jacques Rousseau, conveniently adjacent to Battalion Headquarters, was appropriated for that gregarious band, the regimental signallers and telephone section; while a suitable home for the Anarchists, or Bombers, together with their stock-in-trade, was found in the basement of a remote dwelling on the outskirts of the area.

Little gregarious by nature, Paris had already ceased to delight me in the same way that it had delighted me at first.

Saying the which, Beltane caught the shoe from Giles's hold and strode away blithe and debonair, leaving the garrulous archer dumb for once and beyond all words amazed.

How their heads came together as their garrulous tongues repeated the tale, which would never grow old to them until age nipped their hoary heads and laid them low in the dust, with their horror half expressed, their gruesome tale unfinished.

Did you ever read that garrulous, pleasant history?

Let F.H. lay down his garrulous uncle; and Honorius dismiss his vapid wife, and superfluous establishment of six boysthings between boy and manhoodtoo ripe for play, too raw for conversationthat come in, impudently staring their father's old friend out of countenance; and will neither aid, nor let alone, the conference: that we may once more meet upon equal terms, as we were wont to do in the disengaged state of bachelorhood.

" The Deputy tended to become garrulous, and I cut him short with an inquiry for Dawson's exact address.

Mrs. Carr proved an admirable traveller with the exception of her incessant and garrulous anxiety about the boxes which had been left behind on the deck of the schooner "Maria Jane," and could not by any possibility overtake them for three weeks to come.

The opium, as a moderate substitute for liquor, temporarily restored the habitual tone of his system and revived his natural self-control, and Logotheti soon gave up the idea of extracting any secret from him in a moment of garrulous expansion.

Harriet's old gray hen, a garrulous fowl, came and stood on one leg and looked at me first with one eye and then with the other.

Irascible old Gent (to garrulous barber).

After we had duly admired these decorations, and listened with patience to the old man's garrulous talk about them, he told us that he had yet another to show,one presented to him many years ago by a great man of that day,a man embalmed for all posterity on account of his unrivalled performances upon the tight-rope,a man of whom he reduced all description to mendicancy in designating him as un danseur très-renommé sur la corde tendue.

Garrulous as he was otherwise, the French partisan would give no hint of his general's plans.

"It may or it may not have been a message," he said, speaking to Robert, in his usual garrulous fashion, "but I still incline to the opinion that it was, though I may never know what the message meant, but I, Charles Langlade, have not been called the Owl for nothing.

Compared to me, she would have found the Sphinx garrulous indeed.

He is garrulous and loves his joke, but is quite ignorant of the world, being "in it but not of it.

"'"How old art thou?" said the garrulous gourd

As he grew older and took less active exercisethe son resident at home carrying out his instructionshe became more garrulous and liked to talk about his system.

You have an account here, I believe?" "It won't be here long," retorted Britt, with garrulous good nature.

Chattering, garrulous, loquacious, talkative.

The second flutist, while looking over his shoulder angrily at the garrulous audience, executed a false note, which almost threw the first (and only) violinist into fits.

"After dinner," says the right garrulous Pepys in his journal, "to Hyde Parke; at the Parke was the King, and in another Coach, Lady Castlemaine, they greeting one another at every turn.

I must not be too egotistically garrulous in print, or I would now attempt to describe the various ways in which I have spent a summer's day in England.

In all truth, it is a most garrulous and incoherent narrative.

Homer, long ago, found us garrulous, and compared us to cicadas chirping unprofitably in the city-gate.

In the midst of the dance and revelry a bloody rabbit appeared to accuse Reynard of tearing off one of his ears, while the garrulous crow, Merkinau, related how the same unscrupulous wretch had pretended death merely to befool Sharfenebbe, his wife, and induce her to come near enough for him to bite off her head.

They came first to the camp, and there the Little Woman met them, and by some canny intuition knew who they were and what they wanted,thanks to Casey's garrulous mood when he told her of Lucy Lily.