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On previous occasions their conversations had been limited to an "Is the headmaster in?" from Fenn, and a stately inclination of the head from Watson. The man was getting a positive babbler.
With such fine speeches you are paving the way for some kind of trickster or fool, some visionary babbler or charlatan, who will entrap him or persuade him to adopt his own folly. A man may be well acquainted with things whose utility a child cannot comprehend; but is it right, or even possible, for a child to learn what a man ought to know?
As he uttered the last sentence, he attempted to sink on his knees in supplication to Him he addressed, but the tension of the cord prevented him; yet were his hands clasped, and his eyes upraised to heaven, while his countenance beamed with an expression of fervent enthusiasm. "Peace, babbler! or, by Heaven! that prayer shall be your last," vociferated Wacousta.
Then comes the fable of the 500 men of the rear guard, who, it is pretended, saw them die! I make no doubt that the story of the poisoning was the invention of Den . He was s babbler, who understood a story badly, and repeated it worse. I do not think it would have been a crime to have given opium to the infected. On the contrary, it would have been obedience to the dictates of reason.
I cannot conceive, I cannot imagine, I cannot form any idea of French orators, and I doubt that they have ever had any or can have any now in the strict construction of the term orator, because we must not confuse the name orator with the words babbler and charlatan, for these can exist in any country, in all the regions of the inhabited world, among the cold and curt Englishmen as among the lively and impressionable Frenchmen."
He waved her aside as a babbler who broke in upon his thoughts. These seemed to be lodged in his mouth, for, when reflecting, he chewed and mumbled with his lips. "Listen," he said at length. "This is De Casimir. He goes to bed and lets his beard grow half an inch of beard will keep any man in the hospital. You nod your head. Yes; I thought so.
And yet while the curt, pithy speaker misses the point entirely, a wordy, prolegomenous babbler will often add three new offences in the process of excusing one. It is really a most delicate affair. The world was made before the English language, and seemingly upon a different design.
In Shadowy Vale shalt thou seek to me then, and there will I talk with thee. 'And where, said he, 'is Shadowy Vale? for thereof have I never heard tell. She said: 'The token when it cometh to thee shall show thee thereof and the way thither. Art thou a babbler, Gold-mane? He said: 'I have won no prize for babbling hitherto.
"And let's find it nearer water-level where the steamers can see it right away." "What about the kid?" "Me come," said Kaviak, with a highly obliging air. "No; you stay at home." "No; go too." "Go too, thou babbler! Kaviak's a better trail man than some I could mention." "We'll have to carry him home," objected Potts.
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