He never took any trouble about the church he just gabbled the prayers and preached the same old sermons - The Captives by Hugh Walpole

Tea was a long time in progress all the guests gabbled as their hostess had expected they would - Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

Tossing off her clothes she gabbled ardently through her own prayers drew the blankets up over her head and pretended to be asleep - The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson