Word: chatteringly
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...about floors and pavements. These are elaborately made, in little slippery squares and patterns." Of South Africa: "Large animals, while more numerous than they should be, are not an influential segment of the population. . . . None of the animals in South Africa have learned to keep quiet. Lions roar, monkeys chatter and even crickets squeak louder than is reasonable. The trees contain doves which croak and gurgle constantly...
They Die Quietly. "First thing that happens to the Americans when they get into the line is that they stop talking. You notice how the conversational silence deepens as you pass the thump of artillery and approach the chatter of machine guns...
...towns, the electrifying wonder of the new industrial creations. Once he stood under the columned porch of a New England building watching the noontime traffic. Across the street a church steeple rose in the murky winter light. There was the smell of burning leaves in the air, the chatter of starlings, gulls circling over the city. "Only the people scurrying along the streets looked dead and gray and driven. They were warmly dressed, they looked well fed, but still as they passed by they looked helpless and fragile and faceless as dry leaves, blown along the gutter by a gust...
...their homes, Britons pulled table like, steel-legged Morrison shelters into living rooms, broke off conversations to dive under them at every roar. In pubs and cafes, chatter stilled while diners and drinkers ducked under tables...
...promising start, Playwright Akins soon badly bogs down. In terms of plot, she has little more to offer than that Karl Marx is no match for Dan Cupid. In terms of comedy, she can only let her flighty, bird-brained heroine chatter on for three long acts. Now & then the chatter is funny-"Everybody needs money these days, even the poor"; perhaps an act of it is fun. After that, it is pretty much an assault upon the eardrums...