Word: chatteringly
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...officer was throwing a party for some of his German friends; he called them "the cream of what is left of German society." The men in black & white, the bejewelled women in long backless gowns were busy dazzling each other and particularly their British host, with Almanack de Gotha chatter about Prince this, Duke that and their big estates...
...calm under the harsh Riviera sun. Eighty-two children crowded the small 30-ft. motor launch Annamaria as it pulled out from the little seashore town of Loana. With shrill chatter and singing, the children (aged ten to twelve) set forth with six women guardians and three crewmen for the isle of Gallinaria, six miles away...
Author Costain lays on the local color thick-duels, tortures, trials, Valerie rising naked from her bath, and plenty of antique dressmaking chatter. As lavish with his color, Author Shellabarger is much the subtler hand with characters and story-though in this field "subtle" is strictly a comparative term. Prince of Foxes begins in Venice, with Andrea Orsini bowing low before the lovely Camilla degli Baglioni. Foxy Andrea can tell that Camilla is una illustrissima, but how is Camilla to know that Andrea, for all his fine clothes, is the son of a blacksmith? Prince of Foxes is laid...
...rose from behind Boston's buildings, and from the Charles came a light breeze to mitigate the day's blistering heat. As the sky grew darker, and the trees lining the river became black silhouettes, any regular concert-goers present probably were irritated by the rise and fall of chatter and the calls of newsboys stepping over people's legs and bodies. But the Esplanade Concerts are not for these; they are for the man who feels like relaxing at that time of the day and year, who enjoys music unpretentiously and informally, without the restrictions imposed by the discipline...
...Jessup thought that he had licked the Machine, it literally blew up in his face. Novelist Loughlin's whale is still at large when his story ends, but readers will find stretches of remarkably brisk writing as well as murky theorizing, and large chunks of knowing merchant-marine chatter and engine-room lore...