| Worse, the babel of messages from amateurs produced conflicting news about whether the ship was safe. |
| To the silence of a moment before had succeeded a babel of shrieks and hisses. |
| What is left is a babel of talk, of contrasting idiolects delineating the diverse characters, again well illustrated by Miola. |
| Out of the babel of writers' voices offering their services, one dominated, that of Peter Nichols. |
| And yet he has been rejected by a polyglot babel of 25 countries, and the will of the people of Italy has been frustrated. |
| Her reverie was broken by a babel of voices, the approach of running feet, and suddenly her vision was filled with Theo's aghast features. |
