bavardage

• “We know that our political sphere is healthy when, first, everyone who wants to be a "participant in government" can in fact have access to it; and second, when the talk that takes place there is viewed not as mere bavardage or spin, but as one of the chief and most valuable expressions of public liberty.”

  The Turn of the Screw (II)

• “The dame before me is chatting with the bouchère about tout et rien until I clear my throat, at which point she pauses, only to continue her bavardage.”

  Simon & Schuster: Words in a French Life

• “Representative assemblies are often taunted by their enemies with being places of mere talk and bavardage.”

  Representative Government

• “Carlisle; si vous pouvez supporter tout ce bavardage, cest parce que vous aimez votre fille, qui en est en partie la cause.”

  George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life

• “Musset's _Merle Blanc_, and like them we live "de plaisir, d'honneur, de bavardage, de gloire et de chiffons.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873

• “Though bavardage accounted for much of the general knowledge of every one's affairs, there was an uncanny mystery in the speed at which a particular secret spread.”

  Mystic Isles of the South Seas.

• “Adieu, dear Lady Carlisle; si vous pouvez supporter tout ce bavardage, cest parce que vous aimez votre fille, qui en est en partie la cause.”

  George Selwyn His Letters and His Life

• “Pardon de ce bavardage et mille amitiés -- avec tous mes compliments pour”

  Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.

• “Representative assemblies are often taunted by their enemies with being places of mere talk and _bavardage_.”

  Considerations on Representative Government

• “At the left of Stephen Colonna rode Adrian, grave and silent, and replying only by monosyllables to the gay bavardage of the Knight of Provence.”

  Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes

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