A regular German--rather stout, with brown hair tumbled all over his head, a bushy beard, good nose, the kindest eyes I ever saw, and a splendid big voice that does one's ears good, after our sharp or slipshod American gabble . His clothes were rusty, his hands were large, and he hadn't a really handsome feature in his face, except his beautiful teeth, yet I liked him, for he had a fine head, his linen was very nice, and he looked like a gentleman, though two buttons were off his coat and there was a patch on one shoe.

Of course when they got to snoring we had a long gabble , and I told Jim everything.

Thus he spoke very fast, as a man gabbles a prayer to a spirit in whom he has little faith, then turned once more to talk of the cattle of Masilo and of the maid Zinita.

He just doesn't say anything, he just looks at you with those steely blue eyes and it must be terrifying, whereas I gabble away - I always want to fill the silence."

He just doesn't say anything, he just looks at you with those steely blue eyes and it must be terrifying, whereas I gabble away" Prue Leith on her fellow Great British Bake Off judge "If I find myself in a difficult or frightening situation, I say quietly to myself: 'Just wait until it passes.

They are Gabble , the true hero, and his white rat brother Ash, a kind of anti-hero.

One took the part of a listening God, and made clearer a prayer that we tend to gabble because we are familiar with it.

The whole show looks like a giant experiment to see how many different items can be squeezed into one hour, and how quickly Dara, inset, can gabble his way through proceedings, cut off the contributors mid-flow and then move swiftly on to the next topic.

The whole show looks like a giant experiment to see how many different items can be squeezed into one hour, and how quickly Dara can gabble his way through proceedings, cut off the contributors mid-flow and then move swiftly on to the next topic.

Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry MARCH 18-19 Highly Sprung Performance Company The Mobile Phone Show Jim Cartwright's rhapsody of rap, text, tweet and gabble .

For the 1 in 7 people in the UK who suffer from hearing loss the experience of Christmas can be a different story altogether.The excited gabble of voices and laughter, new noisy toys, cheery Christmas tunes, the clinking of plates and glasses; even people with normal hearing often struggle to hear clearly amongst all this noise.