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"Blabber" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of a rather timid, idle, and unadventurous scholar, who was blessed with more fastidiousness than passion, is absurd. To say perfectly once and for all what one has to say is surely as fine an achievement as to keep restlessly trying to say it a thousand times over. Gray was no blabber. It is said that he did not even let his mother and his aunts know that he wrote poetry. He lacked boldness, volubility and vital energy. He stood aside from life. He would not even take money from his publishers for his poetry. No wonder ...
— The Art of Letters • Robert Lynd
... before. The day after this we sailed. Poor Jim declared that if he could not clear himself he would never show his face in Portsmouth. I was sure that Andrews and the other good men did not believe him to be guilty, but they could not prove his innocence; and, as he said, the others would take care to blabber about him, and, worst of all, Mr Gray would think him ...
— Peter Trawl - The Adventures of a Whaler • W. H. G. Kingston |
Words linked to "Blabber" : source, verbalize, fink, stool pigeon, supergrass, grass, verbalise, stoolpigeon, blather, nark, copper's nark, speak, sneak, mouth, babble, utter, canary, blither, blether, stoolie, sneaker, talk, informant, snitch, snitcher, smatter |
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