1. "rather babble away and at least partially express something difficult than reproduce impeccable clichés"
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Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
2. "Keeping your mouth shut is a devastating weapon. Your silence will make your opponent want to babble."
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Lee Child, Jack Reacher's Rules
3. "That last bit of babble had gone home. How was they supposed to know, that was ungrammatical but right."
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Stephen King, Wizard and Glass
4. "It was in such a context that Trotsky scorned papist-Quaker babble about the sanctity of human life, and Lenin"
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Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power
5. "These and other of his words were nothing but the perfunctory babble of the surface while the depths remained paralyzed."
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Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
6. "Above all the babble of her age and ours, she makes one blunt assertion. And there alone lies Hope."
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Evelyn Waugh, Helena
7. "Phryne escaped from the babble to go outside and scan the ground in front of the broken window."
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Kerry Greenwood, Cocaine Blues
8. "They fell a-twittering among themselves once more, and this time their intoxicating babble was of violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls."
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Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
9. "...a man may shout the eternal virtues and be unheard forever, but if he babble nonsense in a wilderness it will travel around the world."
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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Red Lamp
10. "Too friendly, too eager to be on message, man is obsolete, dooming ourselves to extinction, restore the balance of nature and babble babble, he overdid it so much that he sounded preposterous, and in an outfit like Bearlift, with its full quota of preposterous green-hued furfuckers, that took some effort."
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Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam