prattling

Leslie H. Gelb on how he needs to stop prattling on about institutions, grab the reins, and lead.

She was prattling along fearlessly, her cheeks flushed, her eyes glistening.

He had carried his little daughter, laughing and prattling to him, down from the nursery, and had put her in her mother's arms.

And he blushed, for the little girls artless prattling and friendliness were already beginning to make him quite human.

He left his wife to defend herself, and he left the prattling babes to be defended by their mother and by nature.

Markham was prattling on amiably, still trying not to be overcome by the funny joke of Bean owning things.