Out of the babel of voices and roaring of wheels outside the window a single sentence struck sharply on our ears.įrom beyond it came such a Babel of hooting and screaming, horrible oaths and yet more horrible laughter, that the stoutest heart might have shrunk from casting down the frail barrier which faced them. Then came archers of the guard, shrill-voiced women of the camp, English pages with their fair skins and blue wondering eyes, dark-robed friars, lounging men-at-arms, swarthy loud-tongued Gascon serving-men, seamen from the river, rude peasants of the Medoc, and becloaked and befeathered squires of the court, all jostling and pushing in an ever-changing, many-colored stream, while English, French, Welsh, Basque, and the varied dialects of Gascony and Guienne filled the air with their babel. The rhythm of “God Save the King” swelled through the babel, and I heard the old lines sung in a way that made you forget their bad rhymes and their bald sentiments. In an office that might have been on the ground-floor of the Tower of Babel, it was so massively constructed, we were presented to our old schoolmaster who was one of a group, composed of two or three of the busier sort of magistrates, and some visitors they had brought. ![]() Men were shaking hands, it did not matter with whom, and bubbling over in a general incoherent babel. (The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) Babylon English person or thing that shakes container in which liquids are mixed by shaking container with small holes in the top for dispensing powdered spices (such as salt, pepper, etc. This stone was thrown at the sainted Stephen, and the other two are from the Tower of Babel. aquiver, being afraid of, being fearful, being nervous, being timid, dithering, jittering, like an electric shock, oscillating, quaking, quaky, quavering, quaveringly, quavery, quivering, rattling, ripping, shaking, shaky, shiver, shivering, shivering with cold or fear, shiveringly, shudder, trembling, trembling. (Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)ĭiscipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues. ![]() “Well, you can’t all fight him,” remarked Jackson, when the babel had died away.
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