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Examples
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No cars, no autoplanes ... just a rustling mass of aliens, chuttering endlessly in their harsh sibilant language, scraping their hard spiny limbs and bodies against each other and the rounded, gourd-like walls.
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Flandry's first awareness was of weight, enclosure, chuttering pump, cooled dried air blown at his nostrils.
A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969
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"It's what you do, just the same: cluckling and chuttering!"
Gentle Julia Booth Tarkington 1907
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A nesting grouse flew chuttering out from under a juniper bush, alighted a short distance away and went limping and dragging one wing before them, cheeping piteously.
The Quirt B. M. Bower 1905
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A nesting grouse flew chuttering out from under a juniper bush, alighted
Sawtooth Ranch B. M. Bower 1905
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There's no such words in the English language as 'cluckling' and 'chuttering.'"
Gentle Julia Booth Tarkington 1907
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He looked as if you'd set him crazy if you didn't quit that chuttering and cluckling! "
Gentle Julia Booth Tarkington 1907
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