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