marooning

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Their host was at the same time a miller; the din of waves and wheels filled the whole house; and canary-birds sent their additional jargoning through the jargon.

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul

Touches there are, be the Heavens ever thanked, of new Sphere-melody; audible once more, in the infinite jargoning discords and poor scrannel-pipings of the thing called Literature;—priceless there, as the voice of new Heavenly Psalms!

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

After months of scrutinising, balloting, arguing and jargoning, one Doctor Chambon gets the post of honour: who will not long keep it; but be, as we shall see, literally crushed out of it.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Sometimes a-drooping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning!

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert

There was silence while she passed, save for the larks' sweet jargoning.

From The Romance of the Coast by Runciman, James