babblement

Let us escape from the babblement.'

It is his desire of sympathy that lies at the bottom of the great heap of his babblement.

The bourne-stone orators speak as it is given them; the Sansculottic People, with its rude soul, listens eager,--as men will to any Sermon, or Sermo, when it is a spoken Word meaning a Thing, and not a Babblement meaning No-thing.

Next them are a group of anglicised Germans and highly specialised chess-players, and then two of the oddest-looking persons--bulging with documents and intent upon extraordinary business transactions over long cigars. . . . I would listen to a stormy sea of babblement, and try to extract some constructive intimations.