I was unwilling to listen to him prattle. From LearnThat.org.
Hear its prattle, which is nothing but the mind beginning to stir!. From Wordnik.com. [The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth?] Reference
This kind of prattle seems much more suited to Cold War era Soviet Union schools than American public schools. From Wordnik.com. [Looney Democrats] Reference
The Porter-Stevens prattle is overblown. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Pregame talk amounts to taking out the trash] Reference
I'm so glad I took the time to read your 'prattle' because at first glance, I was like, what???. From Wordnik.com. [Daring Fireball] Reference
Can prattle what was meant; whilst thou art styled. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
All that prattle of Bess and Belle was not nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls Through New England or, Held by the Gypsies] Reference
The so-called civilized world might prattle of culture. From Wordnik.com. [When Dreams Come True] Reference
And, women as they are, about bronze bucklers dare prattle. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
"I don't prattle on about this at all to my daughters," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Take the Bananas and Run] Reference
Tina's constant prattle on her latest achievements has begun to bore me. From Wordnik.com. [What happens when you listen too much] Reference
Meditatively, while absorbing this prattle, the visitor gazed about him. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Military spending is moving to the forefront of Washington policy prattle. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Brenner: Pentagon Spending -- Music Goes Round, and Round...] Reference
Joan's merry prattle, and to be amused by baby's funny attempts at speaking. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
And then the producers let her prattle on some more, and it's not very kind. From Wordnik.com. ["This looks a little bit staged": D.C. "Housewives" recap and fact-check (#3, Aug. 19)] Reference
Don't let that prattle nest in your ear, they must talk like that in their toad dens. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest] Reference
He sees through Eleanor's society prattle, the guileless mind, the childish innocence. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
And this was gossip as surely as the inimical prattle about Lord and Lady Byron was gossip. From Wordnik.com. [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference
It was once my good fortune -- I who am now old, may prattle of these things -- to be something. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
The toads say the nest is just a thing of meek glory and not to be haunted by its sweet prattle. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest] Reference
This old worthy Abul Hassan Ali Ebe Bekar the barber makes him desperate by his vain prattle. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
How could she know that her lively prattle was making the weary days bearable for the frail sufferer?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Lady] Reference
She missed sorely the children's demands upon her, their play and prattle and movement about the place. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
I was as one who had just heard words from the dead, and hears as prattle all the sounds of common life. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
Some Eton boys talk politics, and as they talk just as boys should talk, their prattle is easily tolerated. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
"I don't know," murmured her companion, still interested in the small patient's prattle in spite of herself. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
"Who is Essie?" laughed Gail, settling herself composedly for the torrent of prattle that was sure to follow. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
Maybe N annoyedMwith his constant prattle about Bhangra music and dark comedies featuring a strong female lead. From Wordnik.com. [The Case of M and N] Reference
Certainly that sailor was never more at sea in his life than he was while he listened to their innocent prattle. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
It seemed close to them; they could not distinguish any words, but the tones were those of her usual pretty baby prattle. From Wordnik.com. [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference
Their constant prattle about "shovel ready projects" is an attempt to leave the impression that most goes to bricks and mortar. From Wordnik.com. [Honey, I Shrunk My Approval Ratings] Reference
She had drawn on the bounty of hidden love that had been her gift, and hers alone, and turned it into fodder for common prattle. From Wordnik.com. [A Theology of Anorexia] Reference
Their children are not like the children of the Old World: they don't romp, or prattle, or get into mischief, or believe in Bogie. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
His hardest labour is his tongue, as if he were loath to use so deceitful an organ; and he is best company with it when he can but prattle. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
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