I should hate any one who thought their prattle could lessen my pain.
Marry--as the friendly vapour ascended, how his prattle would curl up sometimes with it!
I am prating to you, my sweet cousin, but it is theprattle of the heart, which Maria loves.
I whispered to Cyril, 'take the good madman away; you don't know how his prattle harrows me just now.
Every now and then she would stop on a ledge of rock, and, without staying her prattlefor a moment, stoop down and examine the earth with eyes that would not have missed the footprint of a rat.
I could not have tolerated this prattle about Gypsy superstitions had I not observed that through it all the Gypsy was on the qui vive, looking for the traces of her path that Winifred had unconsciously left behind her.
The prattleof voices--an intoxicated, merry Shrovetide prattle of voices arose everywhere.
It is true, these beautifully gowned, beautiful women prattled sweet little ideals and dear little moralities; but in spite of their prattle the dominant key of the life they lived was materialistic.
With real pleasure does he recall "Monsieur Hugo," and prattle memories of his friends like Beranger, and of his family.
All the while he was preparing the plats he wouldprattle of his heroes, what they'd done that day, and what he imagined they might do on the next day.
The method of using a go-cart is shown in this old print taken from a child's book called, Little Prattle over a Book of Prints, published for sixpence in 1801.
But I've surely earned Exemption from these weary politics, --The privilege to prattlewith my son And daughter here, though Europe wait the while.
And what, sirs, please you, may thisprattle mean Unless to prove with what alacrity You give your lady's secrets to the world?
Why should he allow her childishprattle to stand in the way of his desires.
But this slip of a girl, with her childish prattleand aristocratic airs, was quite different.
There were days when I seemed to hear her prattling in the kitchen from the moment she came until the moment she left, and to a good deal of her prattle I had to listen.
Which of the children whose prattle we have described, could call this house his own?
You have lulled your conscience to sleep with prattle of sweet ideals and dear moralities.
It was true that they prattled sweet little ideals and dear little moralities, but in spite of their prattle the dominant key of the life they lived was materialistic.
A lively recollection of the prattle of Parisian ladies furnished names and addresses likely to prove invaluable to Clotilde.
She could prattle deliciously, at times pointedly, relying on her intuition to tell her more than we get from books, and on her sweet impudence for a richer original strain.
Nor can I abide any tongues That will prattle and prate against reason, About that which doth not concern them; Which thing is no better than treason.
And his weary wife needs a breath of sunny air, away from street and wall, amid the hills or by the margin of the sea, where she can sit and prattle with her babe, and fill with happy dreams the long, glad day.
If he ever said these words, surely he had never heard this line, this strain of music from the Hindu: "Sweet is the lute to those who have not heard the prattle of their own children.
Face-of-god gave the twain the sele of the day in merry fashion as he passed them by, and the sober dark-faced man nodded to him but spake no word, and the child stayed her prattle to watch him as he went by.
She remembered the prattle which usually accompanied the clatter of afternoon teacups, and the bits of scandal handed round with the cake.
She had felt far too weary and dispirited to enter into the fun and prattle of the girls.
Mr. Curran's pet was always a favourite of Miss Wolfe's, to whom her prattle was a rest in the midst of many perplexities.
A few moments of silence ensued, broken only by the prattle of the little ones, then there was a sudden sound as of some heavy body plunging into the water, and a shrill cry: "Man overboard!
She could hear the prattle of her baby brother coming from the lawn.
Then we are supposed to stop and prattle to persons of our own sex.
No more gay words sprang from her mind to her lips, as they had done at first when she had forgotten for a time all suffering; there was no more of the happy prattle which had been the result of returning hope.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prattle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
