prating

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To be thus baited, by one's own pale household, Prating of what they may not understand?

From Cromwell by Richards, Alfred B.

Prating of heaven, for earth their bosom beats!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

A Pox o’ your Petticoat; here’s such a Prating, a Man can’t digest his own Thoughts for you.

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce

Pensive through the land of Lotus, Sauntered we by Nilus' side; Garrulous old Herodotus Still our mentor, still our guide, Prating of the mystic bliss Of Isis and of Osiris.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

Gazers came and went— A restless hum of voices marked the spot— In varying shades of critic discontent Prating they knew not what.

From Three Sunsets and Other Poems by Carroll, Lewis