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"Gibber" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... so we had to protect it. If they'd stolen our ten dollar bill, they'd have had to go to jail for it; but they could have stolen an idea worth ten thousand, and we'd just have had to stand back, and gibber. As long as that's ...
— Rope • Holworthy Hall
... "A Chance acquaintance," "The Quality of mercy" and "The Rise of Silas Lapham"; Gilbert Parker's "Seats of the mighty" and "When Valmond came to Pontiac"; Paul Leicester Ford's "The Honorable Peter Stirling"; Richard Harding Davis' "Van gibber," "Gallagher," "Soldiers of fortune" and "The Bar sinister"; Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's mines" and "Allen Quartermain"; Weir Mitchell's "Hugh Wynne", Marion Crawford's "Marietta", "Marzio's crucifix", and "Arethusa"; ...
— Library Work with Children • Alice I. Hazeltine
... year. In his preface to these 'light scenes' he alludes with some pride to this distinction—"I believe I may boast that none ever appeared so early on the stage";—and he proceeds to a generous acknowledgment of the aid received from those dramatic stars of the eighteenth-century, Colley Gibber, Mr Wilks and Mrs Oldfield, all of whom appeared in the cast. Of the two former he says, "I cannot sufficiently acknowledge their civil and kind behaviour previous to its representation"; from which we may conclude, as his biographer Laurence points out, that Harry Fielding was already ...
— Henry Fielding: A Memoir • G. M. Godden |
Words linked to "Gibber" : tittle-tattle, nonsense, tattle, nonsensicality, mumbo jumbo, meaninglessness, blether, lallation, jabbering, piffle, blabber, clack, blab, mouth, prate, prattle, double talk, maunder, let loose, utter, hokum, speak, twaddle, talk, blatherskite, verbalize, blather, emit, babble, jabber, bunk, babbling, verbalise, gabble, smatter, double Dutch, blither, gibberish, let out, abracadabra, chatter |
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