prayers

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In fact we are now unearthing plentiful evidence of what might have been safely assumed, that Babylon never was a "Babylon" nor Nineveh a "Nineveh" in the sense employed by poets and praters without number.

From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert

Whatso wont we to say touching the praters and prigs.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Thou may'st be searched for polish'd words and verse By flippant spouter, emptiest of praters: Tell him to seek them in some mawkish verse: My periods all are rough as nutmeg graters.

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert

By a late vote I see that the twelve hundred praters are reduced to five hundred: Vive la reine Billingsgate! the Thalestris who has succeeded Louis Quatorze!

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace

To talk thick and fast, as great praters usually do, to chatter like a magpye; also to speak a foreign language.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis