Garrulous though my landlady be, she said but little when, with the aid of your ten roubles, I today paid her part of her account; and as for the rest of my companions, they do not matter at all.
Scenery of the Way-lee-way A substitute for tobacco Sublime scenery of Snake River The
garrulous old chief and his cousin A Nez Perce meeting A stolen skin The scapegoat dog Mysterious conferences The little chief His hospitality The captain's account of the United States His healing skill
Though not a
garrulous race, the Tharks are extremely formal, and their ways lend themselves amazingly well to dignified and courtly manners.
My heart fairly beat for joy; for, to own the truth, I was getting to be wearied to death with the
garrulous folly of my companions.
The passengers are not
garrulous, but still they are sociable.
She spoke of the Italian character; she became almost
garrulous over the incident that had made her faint five minutes before.
I put him down for one of your
garrulous fellows who try to lure strangers into talk, but next day, when we found him sitting on the Story-seat itself, I had a longer scrutiny of him.
Thomson moved his chair next to his host's Geraldine's father, Admiral Sir Seymour Conyers, was a very
garrulous old gentleman with fixed ideas about everything, a little deaf and exceedingly fond of conversation.
But Jerry, at that moment, lay cuddled beside Villa Kennan's sleeping-cot on the slant deck of the Ariel, as that trim craft, the Shortlands astern and New Guinea dead ahead, heeled her scuppers a-whisper and
garrulous to the sea-welter alongside as she logged her eleven knots under the press of the freshening trades.
Overcoming with a sudden effort my repugnance to mention her name to my
garrulous companion, I asked him if he knew whether her late husband had left a will, and how the property had been disposed of.
Then growing
garrulous upon a theme which was new to one listener though it were but a child, she told her how she had wept and moaned and prayed to die herself, when this happened; and how when she first came to that place, a young creature strong in love and grief, she had hoped that her heart was breaking as it seemed to be.
She lingered for a few moments, and was
garrulous over some detail of the household.