prate
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You need to hold your nose through the caps on “Resenters” and the verb prate, but the professor has a point.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2019
He’ll bray, he’ll bate, he’ll prate, he’ll Berate, and he’ll inveigh, Then once we’ve been diverted, he’ll cause a new melee.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2018
This two-hour prate across Greek gods, gold-digging moles and burglar horses is amusing enough, but doesn't feel like it's for now, or for us.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2013
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2011
‘None of yer prate, now,’ say the surgeons, ‘there’s wan thing which can be done, and that same thing is to keep from all unnatural excitement from this time forward.’
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
His Polonius prates on foolishly without losing his essential dignity.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2022
Milt prates of the good things in life, but he, too, is gnawed by despair.
From Time Magazine Archive
He prates of duty and discipline and chides Mrs. Alving on the libertarian tenor of the books she reads.
From Time Magazine Archive
The guru prates of selflessness but demands instant obedience to his whims.
From Time Magazine Archive
High the silver ibis flies— Silver wings in silver skies; In the sun the Saurian lies: Comes the mockingbird and prates To the boatman at the gates Of the Ocklawaha.
From The Gentleman from Everywhere by James Henry Foss
Americans' "coarse familiarity, untempered by any shadow of respect," Mrs. Trollope decided, might serve as an object lesson to all Europeans who prated about republican "democracy" from a safe distance.
From Time Magazine Archive
People said that such an example of conjugal felicity was not often seen in those degenerate days, for even then they prated of the golden age of their grandfathers, lamenting their own decadence....
From Orientations by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
With the feel of her heart beating against his own, he had strained her to his breast and prated of honor and duty!
From Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main by Will Crawford
So had they prated Of things created, An hour before, in her Sunday-school.
From To Your Dog and To My Dog by Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt
And still the news announcers prated of the responsibility of one Carl Vanderventer.
From Astounding Stories, August, 1931 by Various
As thou thou prating Raven white by nature being bred,
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2016
For why should a blockhead have one in ten For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?
From Time Magazine Archive
They have many friends and a good sense of humor, and they spend little time prating about 'the good old days.'
From Time Magazine Archive
As the radiant lady fought over by the prating parson she married and the mewling poet she bewitched, Actress Cornell long ago found one of her most triumphant roles.
From Time Magazine Archive
“We have had women enough sacrificed to this sentimental, hypocritical prating about purity,” she wrote to her friend Lucretia Mott.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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