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"Gab" Quotes from Famous Books

... der Seligkeit und ein Meer von bitteren Leiden Die Italienerin gab—Seligkeit, Seligkeit nur Laessest Du mich entzuendend, begeistert, befaendig empfinden, In der Spanierin fand ...

— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham

... You know who I mean. Why, she's even taught me to cut out slang. Say, Bobby, I didn't know how much like a rough-neck I used to talk. I never opened my yawp but what I spilled a line of fricasseed gab so twisted and frazzled and shredded you could use it to stuff sofa-cushions; but now I've handed that string of talk the screw number. No more slang ...

— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester

... profits of his faces. A son of his, one of the children he was making faces to when my comrades entered his door, is at present a barrister, and a very rising one. He has his gift—he has not, it is true, the gift of the gab, but he has something better, he was born with a grin on his face, a quiet grin; he would not have done to grin through a collar like his father, and would never have been taken up by Hopping Ned and Biting Giles, but that grin of his ...

— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow

... whose fingers were getting sore from the various cuts received from the sharp edges. "Sure, we've got enough for a rigiment, so we have. Just ate up the balance yoursilf, and stow your gab, Nick." ...

— Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast - or Through Storm and Stress to Florida • Louis Arundel

... on the eccentric rod of a steam-engine for fitting a pin in the gab-lever to break the connection with the slide-valves. ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

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