prate
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You need to hold your nose through the caps on “Resenters” and the verb prate, but the professor has a point.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2019
He’ll bray, he’ll bate, he’ll prate, he’ll Berate, and he’ll inveigh, Then once we’ve been diverted, he’ll cause a new melee.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2018
This two-hour prate across Greek gods, gold-digging moles and burglar horses is amusing enough, but doesn't feel like it's for now, or for us.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2013
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2011
‘None of yer prate, now,’ say the surgeons, ‘there’s wan thing which can be done, and that same thing is to keep from all unnatural excitement from this time forward.’
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
His Polonius prates on foolishly without losing his essential dignity.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2022
Styron himself prates endlessly about the sickness of the age. and Mason and Cass are obviously two of its sickest children.
From Time Magazine Archive
The guru prates of selflessness but demands instant obedience to his whims.
From Time Magazine Archive
An educational quack, Chesterfield prates of clean minds and bodies but has sold four of the school's five bathtubs.
From Time Magazine Archive
He prates in spite of all impediment, While none believes that what he said he meant; Puts in his finger and his thumb To grope for words, and out they come.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst
Americans' "coarse familiarity, untempered by any shadow of respect," Mrs. Trollope decided, might serve as an object lesson to all Europeans who prated about republican "democracy" from a safe distance.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was an excellent match; Clara had shown herself a woman of determination, superior to the foolish girls who prated of love and cottages.
From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 by Various
He prated of its mouldering beauties often, forgetting that it was lauded by his townsmen long before the Knickerbockers entered its portals.
From The ghosts of their ancestors by Mills, Weymer Jay
Not one inch should he push her from her avowed purpose––not though all the strangers in the world came to Lost Valley and prated of blood-guilt.
From Tharon of Lost Valley by Johnson, Frank Tenney
The good man prated amiably to his Highness, thinking to please him, but the Duke's face grew dark.
From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)
As thou thou prating Raven white by nature being bred,
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2016
There is much unwarranted prating about the transcendency of 'experience' over 'content' in the curriculum .
From Time Magazine Archive
A "keynote" speech, therefore, is by definition a solemn prating about undisputed things.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the radiant lady fought over by the prating parson she married and the mewling poet she bewitched, Actress Cornell long ago found one of her most triumphant roles.
From Time Magazine Archive
“We have had women enough sacrificed to this sentimental, hypocritical prating about purity,” she wrote to her friend Lucretia Mott.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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The Tempest
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