What is "prate"

Usage examples of "prate".

We assume Myros has assured him that such would be the case under his overlordship, so a prating pissant supports a pernicious pervert.

I did dream of acorns and of eating one of them, which foretelleth, as all men know, a gradual rise to riches and honor, that I should be bid to cease prating by a stranger, and he a mere lad?

But Sabinus was lucky, probably because Caesar had deemed him a prating fool from the moment he had reported for duty.

I am a Vagabond, and was never one for swearing pompous oaths and prating about honor.

Still, we ended the evening very agreeably, prating about the Bendas in the library: we might play some of their duets that I brought with me when we have finished our wine.

Binkley had abandoned art and was prating of the unusual spring catch of shad.

The pedantic sciolist, prating of his clear explanations of the mysteries of life, is as far from feeling the truth of the case as an ape, seated on the starry summit of the dome of night, chattering with glee over the awful prospect of infinitude.

There was only one man who still stood out, and that was the silly little ventriloquial barber Compton, who would be prating.

Here the Albanian proudly treads the ground Half-whispering, there the Greek is heard to prate.

I wearied of her constant prating against the Grijalvas, her repeated demands that I revoke the Ducal ProtectionMatra Dolcha, I hear enough of that from the Premia Sancta!

Some for the Bunions that afflict us prate Of Plasters unsurpassable, and hate To Cut a corn--ah cut, and let the Plaster go, Nor murmur if the Solace come too late.

It ill becomes me to prate too much of what I have endured for the faith, and yet, since you have observed it, I must tell you that this thickness and roundness of the waist is caused by a dropsy brought on by over-haste in journeying from the house of Pilate to the Mount of Olives.

A foolish self-obsessed young girl, filled with resentment and arrogancies that deal death every time you open your spoiled, prating mouth.

The youth with him called him Curan, which is the name of the strong porter they prate of, but doubtless that was a jest.

It is not without good reason, then, that not merely a few people prating in the schools and gymnasia in captious disputations, but so many and great people, both learned and unlearned, in countries and cities, have believed that God spoke to them or by them, i.