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A sharp shower pattered at my heels as I sprinted for the 'bus, and when I disembarked from it the gutters were gurgling with ill-concealed delight.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

While tossing from side to side, I felt the vessel strike as if gently touching a bank; and wood being a good conductor of sound, I heard the water, as it were, gurgling in.

From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Murray, Henry A.

There were organs and drums and trumpets; there were little thrush flutes and bullfinch pipes; there were gurgling brooks and singing water-sprites, tinkling bluebells and thrumming woodpeckers.

From The Emperor of Portugalia by Howard, Velma Swanston

And Nature possibly followed her example; for at sunset a great thaw set in, and by midnight the freed rivers and brooks were gurgling melodiously, and tree and shrub and fence were moist and dripping.

From Thankful Blossom by Harte, Bret

The rain, too, had filled the brooks, and their waters were gurgling down deep, shadowy dells, mingling their touching music with the sad, sighing wind.

From The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family by Waud, A. R.