A rush of people into the hut now separated the two, while outside the shouting of the men, the jabbering of the baboon, and from time to time a yell from Luji, who was evidently the most suspected, was heard.
Luji shared their fate, and the monkey very much frightened, jumped to his usual place on his shoulders, jabbering and grimacing.
Breaking off a large bough, jabbering loudly, and making the most diabolical faces, it took aim at the young elephant, the wood hitting it a smart blow on the trunk.
Rust had been through the mill before and could speak French pretty well, and was soon jabbering to the old Frenchwoman, whose face became all smiles when she found he had been wounded at Ypres; her husband had also been wounded there.
After much talking and jabbering by the French interpreters we finally got started, and we soon left L----h far behind.
How many Varlets and jabbering Coxcombs know at the present moment that the Lady Barbara Wychwoode spends the night alone with a Mountebank?
I looked around me, marvelling if there was not one sane Person here who would stand up in the defence of a great and talented Artist against this jabbering of irresponsible Monkeys.
Then followed a yell, a jabbering of a frightened native, and a scuffling about.
Also he wasjabbering to George, who evidently was out on the bank, but invisible to Ken.
Crowds of natives were jabbering and jostling each other at a rude wharf.
But all of a suddink he starts up as he hears you a comin' down the companion-way, sir, and isjabbering away like anythink!
I went down at once with her, and without even taking the trouble to listen I could clearly distinguish the sound of tapping beneath the cabin deck, despite the confused jabbering of Monsieur Boisson, and the shrill tones of his wife.
The silence kept on while I swallowed hard a couple of times, and after that there was all sorts of jabbering and commotion.
Of course that started them all laughing and jabbering again.
And what a laughing, chattering, jabbering group it is!
She shook him, she boxed his ears, she pulled his hair, and all the time he was begging and pleading and she was screeching and jabbering at the top of her lungs.
When they first climbed aboard, I see 'em looking the schooner over mighty sharp, and in a minute they was all jabbering together in native lingo.
There stood the raving savage jabbering at me, and threatening me with his club; and, worse still, there stood his dog at the foot of the tree waiting for a dish of Charley Black for supper.
Indeed he seemed very angry with me for some reason, for he came running toward me, jabbering in his strange language and setting his dog on me.
Then, after giving final instructions to Sergeant Ludwig and the various native non-commissioned officers, he ordered the jabbering men to march, with the carriers staggering on at the point of the bayonet.
Around the launch was a flotilla of native canoes in charge of a small crowd of nude Kavirondo paddlers, jabbering at the prospect of a war expedition.
Thank you, but I'm very busy," replied poor Nelly, who wished that her jabbering visitor would leave her in quiet to work.
Illustration: Miss Folly went jabbering on: "Just try that bonnet on your head.
One might know her coming were she a mile off, by the sound of her jabbering voice.
The Indians were now jabbering excitedly in low tones and Mr. Thorne was doing his utmost to quiet them and allay their terror.
When they had concluded their harangue (for it was clear they intended their jabbering for such), one of them who seemed to be the chief stood up in the prow of his canoe, and made signs for us to bring our boats alongside of him.
That child over there makes one feel so cheap and ridiculous, jabbering away.
An ugly clamour of strident noises and hard, shrill voices, jabbering of vulgar, trivial things.
What they liked best was the harsh uproar made by pieces of wood beaten together, or the weird jabbering and chanting that accompanied a big feast.
All this time the current was carrying the Veielland rapidly along, and I had soon left the natives jabbering furiously far behind me.
Jabbering consultations were held, but while they were thus hesitating ten more canoes swung round the headland, and their appearance seemed to give the advance-guard fresh courage.
The tones in which the shouts and loud jabbering of the pirates were uttered showed that they were beginning to think that they had had enough of it.
After a considerable amount of jabbering and talking, it was agreed that the task could be accomplished.
The Waz-don, however, gathered around excitedly jabbering questions in a language which the stranger discovered his guide understood though it was entirely unintelligible to the former.
He remained jabbering to some acquaintances among the troopers.
The jabbering crowd at the door had turned and were hurrying upon some central tumult.
How the little chap found his way I don't know, but he did somehow or other, cutting through the brushwood with his machete, and jabbering to me in Spanish all the time.
Only the chap who had killed the native as he was going for me, the one whom I had prevented drinking that champagne, stood up and came out, shaking his head, and jabbering Spanish.
From the lower deck came a confused babel of sounds, a harsh jabbering of foreign languages that grated roughly on his ear.
Bildad was jabbering in delirium, and Guy could catch broken sentences muttered at intervals by Carrington or the Greek.
He followed with the padrone behind the jabbering throng, and the two engineers came along at his earnest request.
A mumbling began among them and immediately it swelled into a jabbering chorus as the few who understood translated his words to the others.
But on this morning they whose stations lay on the seaward side of the market-house, instead of spreading their merchandise formed themselves into a softly jabbering and gesticulating group.
The jabbering Caribs hauled away at the rigging; the sloop headed for the shore.
And now, to think that a set of jabbering fools in London should so destroy my credit and their own, that not a bank will discount our paper unless they are assured Lord Ventnor has joined the board!
The master was petulant, surly, and uttered a series of strange sounds, in jabbering Irish, which the poor afflicted pupil could neither understand nor imitate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jabbering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chatter; gibbering; loquacious; patter; prattle
