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There is a perpetual "jabble" against the cliffs on this coast -- and we have seldom met with a soul save an aged and solitary fisherwoman -- a study for a Bonington -- pursuing her precarious calling of crab or shrimp fishing, or of pulling lobsters from their retreats in the savage cliffs.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831 Various

When two tides meet there is ever a cruel commotion, and ships are apt to be dashed on the rocks, and Carmichael's mind was in a "jabble" that day.

Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

When two tides meet there is ever a cruel commotion, and ships are apt to be dashed on the rocks, and Carmichael's mind was in a "jabble" that day.

Rabbi Saunderson Ian Maclaren 1878

When we made the passage (bound, although yet we knew it not, for Silverado) the steamer jumped, and the black buoys were dancing in the jabble; the ocean breeze blew killing chill; and, although the upper sky was still unflecked with vapour, the sea fogs were pouring in from seaward, over the hilltops of Marin county, in one great, shapeless, silver cloud.

The Silverado Squatters 1884

When we made the passage (bound, although yet we knew it not, for Silverado) the steamer jumped, and the black buoys were dancing in the jabble; the ocean breeze blew killing chill; and, although the upper sky was still unflecked with vapour, the sea fogs were pouring in from seaward, over the hilltops of Marin county, in one great, shapeless, silver cloud.

The Silverado Squatters Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

We're no like you -- forced to lat ower (swallow) ony jabble o 'lukewarm water that's been stan'in'

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

But there was a _jabble_ in the room beside them, and Annie heard it.

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

Dark clouds were gathering up from the northward, and a short jabble of sea was rising which occasionally sent

The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story Arthur Twidle 1859

There was plenty of space for it down below; and in a few seconds 'time it had all gone down to mix among the bilge-water, and jabble about during the remainder of the voyage.

The Boy Tar Mayne Reid 1850

Gien I was you, I wadna tell fowk any sic nonsense as yon; I wad tell them 'at ilk ane' at disna dee his wark i 'the warl', an 'dee 't the richt gait, 's no the worth o' a minnin, no to say a whaul, for ilk ane o 'thae wee craturs dis the wull o' him 'at made' im wi 'ilka whisk o' his bit tailie, fa'in 'in wi' a 'the jabble o' the jaws again 'the rocks, for it's a' ae thing -- an 'a' to haud the muckle sea clean.

Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864