I was young enough for them not to feel shy, and they chattered merrily about one thing and another.
By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.
She would have much preferred to sit back with the girls, where she could have laughed and chattered to her heart's content.
"Oh, Mar—Marilla," chattered Anne, "I'll b-b-be contt-tented with c-c-commonplace places after this.
Over at the railway station a group of young girls was waiting for a train; she heard their gay laughter as they chattered and joked.
But far away in Africa, where the monkeys chattered in the palm-trees before they went to bed under the big yellow moon, they would say to one another, "I wonder what The Good Man's doing now—over there, in the Land of the White Men!
While the kids chattered and the man drove, the woman sat smiling, surrounded by her flowers, a faraway look in her eyes.
She was Illyrio's favorite, a fair-haired, blue-eyed wench of sixteen who chattered constantly as she worked.
Barry had a sophisticated kindness about him and listened attentively as I chattered nervously about myself.
He seemed very shy, and ordered black coffee and smoked nervously as the young people chattered about sleeping on beaches.
She became quite animated, and chattered away to him.
Again and again we plighted troth, We chattered, and laughed, and kissed; To make me well remember my oath You gave me a bite on the wrist.
All round the hull, in the blackness, the rippling current bubbled and chattered like a little mountain stream.
" She chattered little girl talk as we strolled up the beach, but my mind was on other things.
While the kids chattered and the man drove, the woman sat smiling, surrounded by her flowers, a faraway look in her eyes.
Though they chattered incessantly I could not understand a word they said, nor did they heed when I spoke to them.
The girl opened the cupboard and brought him some food, and in her love forgot to shut the cupboard-door again; She seated herself at the table by her lover, and they chattered away together.
Crows and choughs, in great close masses, flew past over the tall chestnut trees, and chattered and screamed as if they had something very important to tell one another—as if they were saying, "Now she's come back again, the little girl who had their eggs and their young ones stolen from them; and as for the thief who had got them down, he had to climb up a leafless tree, for he sat on a tall ship's mast, and was beaten with a rope's end if he did not behave himself.
And when at last he crept into bed, he would be so cold that his teeth chattered in his head.
The sparrows assembled in dozens upon the wild vines, and chattered all together as loud as they could, but not about the old house; none of them could remember it, for many years had passed by, so many indeed, that the little boy was now a man, and a really good man too, and his parents were very proud of him.
