Word: gibber
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...telling on his wife. She assures poor Oswald that some men are born to be cuckolds and that he is eminently one of them. Other stories are of "A Gentleman of England," who, if he was not perfect, "it was not for lack of thinking so"; of Jeremy Gibber, who, by mixing clam-like silences with psychological moments rose to be a leader of ecclesiastical thought; and "Last Straws," a powerful story of post-War aches &; pains...
...seated children, all tense, eyes forward, on the alert. Teacher sits tensely too, watching them breathlessly. Suddenly Teacher cries a sharp command. The children spring to their feet, jump up and down, leap on their chairs and desktops, run, scream, yell, pull hair, bleat, catcall, caterwaul, whistle, shout, gibber, bang fists, stamp feet, kick out, fall down, scramble around. Seeing the pandemonium slacken, Teacher joins the spectacle, waves arms, shouts, yells, halloos, squeaks, bellows...
...infallible instinct of Theodore Roosevelt has given us a name for all the shapes of treachery that squeak and gibber in the American streets and eke sometimes from American platforms. These are the shadow Huns, the forerunners of a solid flesh and blood reality--or blood and iron, as it prefers to describe itself. All flesh is as grass, and grass is a thing for which the German sword has no use, except it snatch at a few wisps to wipe its blade...