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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Chatter
 
  Chattering like a flock of daws.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Our teeth are all achatter like the clinking castanets.
            —Joseph Ashby-Sterry		  2
  Chatters like a jay.
            —Robert Browning		  3
  Chatter like bone castanets.
            —Lewis Carroll		  4
  Teeth chattering like a Morse sounder.
            —Irvin Cobb		  5
  Chatter … Like silly school-girls in the silliest mood.
            —Jean Ingelow		  6
  Chatter like a mob of sparrows.
            —Jerome K. Jerome		  7
  A constant chatter, like a magpie in the trees.
            —W. S. McFetridge		  8
  Chattering like magpies.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  9
  Chatter like sick flies.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  10
  Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter.
            —Old Testament		  11
  Hear him chatter, like a taught starling.
            —John Webster		  12
 
 
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