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The moor, which is broken into humps and hillocks, smokes and boils and babbles like the hell-broth of Macbeth's witches, and across it winds, snake-wise, a steaming brook. Here and there is a stagnant pool, and underneath can be heard a dull roar, as if an imprisoned ocean were beating on a pebble-strewed shore.

"But this creature was not to be diverted from himself. "'He is another one of them, I thought. 'He walks and implores and wrings his hand and babbles, 'blood, blood that was real. And there is nothing to be done with him. Another pathologic symptom asks the hospitality of Mallare, and I must make the proper pretense of graciousness and cordiality. "'But first I must identify my guest.

The feeble fingers yet cling to the vanities of earth; the speaker babbles not of green fields but of his blue lump of lapis-lazuli; and the last word of all is alive only with senile luxury and the malice of perishing recollection.

He stared at her, his face flushed and his breath short. Then he asked abruptly: "When do you think we're goin' home?" Alexina laughed merrily. "That is the first question every officer or private I have met since the Armistice has asked me. I should feel greatly flattered, but I fancy the question, being always on the top of your minds, simply babbles off." "You bet. But Jimminy!

Even in the Haymarket, with its babbles of Nymph and Satyr, there was wonderful life from midnight to dawn deep sympathy with which told me that I was a born Pagan, and could never be really comfortable in any modern Temple of the Proprieties.

"And they are not content, silly!" "Why? Because nobody ever had enough love in real life," mocked Sylvia. "You have said it, child. That is the malady of the world, and nobody knows it until some pretty ninny like you babbles the truth.

I don't mind if I do." "The man appears a perfect imbecile," said Mrs. Porter, turning abruptly to Kirk. "I ask him if he attributes his physical decay to beer and he babbles." "I think he thought you were offering him a drink," suggested Kirk. "As a matter of fact, a little brandy wouldn't hurt him, after the shock he has had." "On no account. The worst thing possible."

Shame seals his lips, or, if it doesn't do that, makes him lose his morale and start to babble. Gussie, for example, as we have seen, babbles of syncopated newts." "Palmated newts, sir." "Palmated or syncopated, it doesn't matter which. The point is that he babbles and is going to babble again, if he has another try at it.

Passing over a mountain spur, I descend into a rocky canon, with perpendicular walls of rock towering skyward like giant battlements, inclosing a space not over fifty yards wide; through this runs my road, and alongside it babbles the Dele Baba Su. The canon is a wild, lonely- looking spot, and looks quite appropriate to the reputation it bears.

Moreover, he is troubled with fits of what may be called the cold enthusiasm; he babbles of Mont Blanc and the picturesque; and when the fit is on, he raves of Raphael and Correggio, Rome, Athens, Paestum, and Jerusalem. He despises England, and has no home; or at least loves none.