She blethered on while Bill sipped his fortified tea and Joanne warmed herself by the fire. ❋ A. D. Scott (2010)
He kept talking about "tough choices" and "difficult decisions" but as far as I could tell he didn't answer a single one of John Humphries questions, he just blethered on about Tory cuts whilst failing to acknowledge that Labour will on their own figures have to cut too. ❋ Mark Reckons (2009)
She blethered for ages and ages and ages on the second question. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Pitmatic anna new - ah've blethered on aboot it in Wordorigins like. ❋ Unknown (2005)
They blethered endlessly, the way they used to, making each other laugh, exchanging thoughts and ideas. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2001)
All day Saturday they had been alternately playing and fighting with Heather and Stephanie, Moray's wee sisters, in the house and round the garden while their mums drank coffee and blethered in the kitchen and their dads hit into a force eight on the links. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (1996)
As Jack afterward said, "They blethered like a lot o 'wild geese." ❋ Various (N/A)
The flock blethered at the home corral, and old Pedro Ruiz, hobbling out to let them in, stood ❋ Unknown (1908)
The flock blethered at the home corral, and old Pedro Ruiz, hobbling out to let them in, stood a long time at the bars wondering what had become of Felicita. ❋ Unknown (1908)
Sure, she tackled Mr Salmond with her assertion that Scottish independence looked farther away than ever, but he was still allowed to airily deny what has become a fact of life and he blethered away as he usually does when asked when his promised referendum was forthcoming. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Tammie had gotten his drappikie, and the tongue of the body would not lie still a moment; so he blethered on from one thing to another, as we jogged along, till I was forced at the last to give up thinking, and begin a twa-handed crack with him. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)
“Um, that’s not really what I …” Deryn blethered, starting to explain that midshipmen were officers, practically. ❋ MR. SCOTT WESTERFELD (2009)
If I blethered on about it, you’d fall asleep on your feet. ❋ Jo-Ann Mapson (2006)
They'd taken to each other as young women, and now, on the rare occasions they met tete-a-tete, they blethered like the grand-mothers they were — why, on that very day (when I was safely out of earshot) she told Elspeth that there were some who wanted her to mark her Golden Jubilee by abdicating in favour of her ghastly son, Bertie the Bounder, "but I shall do no such thing, my dear! ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)
They'd taken to each other as young women, and now, on the rare occasions they met tete-a-tete, they blethered like the grand-mothers they were - why, on that very day (when I was safely out of earshot) she told Elspeth that there were some who wanted her to mark her Golden Jubilee by abdicating in favour of her ghastly son, Bertie the Bounder, "but I shall do no such thing, my dear! ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)
