Tut, tut, my lord. We will not stand to prate; Talkers are not good doers: be assur'd we go to use our hands and not our tongues. From LearnThat.org. [William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616). The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Act I. Scene III)]
Verb (used without object) : They prated on until I was ready to scream. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to prate absurdities with the greatest seriousness. From Dictionary.com.
And the cold wind's goblin prate. From Wordnik.com. [Act I] Reference
Bad luck t'you, cease your senseless pigeon's prate!. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference
Why prate of social status, class, or rank when earth. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Vol. IV] Reference
Half-whispering there the Greek is heard to prate. From Wordnik.com. [Childe Harold's Pilgrimage] Reference
We must give folks leave to prate: what, the good-jer!. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry Wives of Windsor] Reference
"There, that will do; don't prate of what I have told you.". From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
You prate of duty and honor, of a patriot's glorious death. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference
Of expansion and combustion, they can prate 'til all is blue. From Wordnik.com. [NUMBER TWENTY-TWO] Reference
I'm personally disgusted by those who prate about "depravity". From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Let the little people of the world prate of their little things!. From Wordnik.com. [One Day A sequel to 'Three Weeks'] Reference
To prate about the dictatorship of the proletariat and of workers '. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Conspiracy] Reference
For this rabble of beggars vseth thus fondly to prate with strangers. From Wordnik.com. [A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas] Reference
Are you concerned about that aspect combined with a lot of December prate people?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2010] Reference
Work-people with axes must not prate of rights, or a prison will be their next one. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven] Reference
Moreover to prate, to harangue, to debate, is now the ambition of all in the state. From Wordnik.com. [The Frogs] Reference
It is more pleasure associating with bad men who have tact than with good men who prate. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
I claimed their attention, and, knowing that they always loved to hear me prate, went on. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
It was not an occasion when long-haired critics could draw a diagram, and prate learnedly of. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Were people now beginning to prate about working hours and quantity in connection with poetry?. From Wordnik.com. [Shallow Soil] Reference
I had never heard my giant prate of agriculture; the camp and the tap-room had been his haunts. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
We call this a narrow life, prate in the North of our sympathy with the universal man, don't we?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
In other words, you prate about ethics but have no real experience of your own nature, Human Nature. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Critics can prate about natural and conventional art without helping us to understand; but a passage from. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just "people of faith" but theocratic bullies. From Wordnik.com. [Dozens Of Call Center Workers Walk Off Job In Protest Rather Than Read McCain Script Attacking Obama] Reference
Stay, stay, sir, said I: we have a great deal to say first; I have a deal of silly prate to trouble you with! —. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
He began to prate upon the Presumption of Philosophers in erecting Iron Rods to draw the Lightning from the Clouds. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 2, 5 October 1758 - 9 April 1759] Reference
That was not the time, therefore, to make disagreeable scenes, to prate about paternal authority and conjugal honor. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
McCain seems satisfied to prate about the benefits of free trade, and accuse Obama of believing America can't compete. From Wordnik.com. [Robert L. Borosage: A New US Strategy in the Global Economy?] Reference
Truly, Frank Sydney, thou art a pretty fellow to prate about sallying forth at midnight to do good to thy fellow creatures!. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
“Ay, now you may set up for yourself,” resumed the other; “for you can prate as unintelligibly as the best of them.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference
Worcester, since I left my school indeed, for there the tricks, the prate and the Mischievous Tricks, the perpetual invincible. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 5, 26 May - 25 November 1760] Reference
Oh! do read the Second Book, for we can afford but a few extracts; and, to whet you up, shall prate to you a few minutes about it. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
All periods prate against one another in your spirits; and the dreams and pratings of all periods were even realer than your awakeness!. From Wordnik.com. [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference
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