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"Gibber" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... high that all the windows and doors in the old house shook and rattled. In fact, it was just such weather as he loved. His plan of action was this. He was to make his way quietly to Washington Otis's room, gibber at him from the foot of the bed, and stab himself three times in the throat to the sound of slow music. He bore Washington a special grudge, being quite aware that it was he who was in the habit of removing the famous Canterville blood- stain, ...
— Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories • Oscar Wilde
... in Dante's priceless poem; and how they read no more from the pages of their book, their very glances glued with love? What doth your Tchaikovsky with this Old World tale? Alas! you know full well. He tears it limb from limb. He makes over the lovers into two monstrous Cossacks, who gibber and squeak at each other while reading some obscene volume. Why, they are too much interested in the pictures to think of love. Then their dead carcasses are whirled aloft on screaming flames of hell, and sent whizzing into a ...
— Old Fogy - His Musical Opinions and Grotesques • James Huneker |
Words linked to "Gibber" : prate, emit, chatter, blether, meaninglessness, verbalise, speak, bunk, double talk, jabbering, twaddle, gabble, verbalize, tattle, babble, blab, prattle, mumbo jumbo, babbling, let loose, jabber, blatherskite, tittle-tattle, nonsense, smatter, maunder, blither, double Dutch, abracadabra, clack, nonsensicality, blather |
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