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Lieutenant Theodule was gay, no doubt, but a chatter-box, frivolous, but vulgar; a high liver, but a frequenter of bad company; he had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, it is true also; but he talked badly.
Les Miserables 2008
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The same person who gives you a glassy-eyed stare at 7:30 a.m. might be a regular chatter-box in the afternoon.
The cult effect at St. Agnes Terry Nelson 2006
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Lady Portia Hammelson—short in stature and quite the chatter-box.
Chasing a Rogue Victoria Malvey 2002
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"What a chatter-box you are, child!" expostulated her mother, who had come up to tell them breakfast was ready.
Betty Gordon in Washington Alice B. Emerson
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Elizabeth smiled and congratulated herself on having so easily solved the problem of what to do with the restless, little chatter-box until she could go back to school the following Monday.
The Lilac Lady Ruth Alberta Brown
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Or there was Comrade Meissner, a neighbour of Jimmie's, a friendly little chatter-box of a man who was foreman-in-charge of a dozen women from as many different races of the earth, packing bottles in the glass-works.
Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923
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This is usually sufficient to bring the little chatter-box back to the task.
The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale Lewis Madison Terman 1916
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"Perhaps you'll get more than you bargain for -- I'm an awful chatter-box."
A Popular Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907
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You've lost your self-conscious little airs with strangers and you are no longer a chatter-box.
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"Be silent, chatter-box!" ordered the masked assassin sharply.
Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas Pierre Souvestre 1894
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