Prating

I enquired the cause, when, with his natural candour, he informed me that he could not help being more impressed by what he termed the prating of the gossips who had just left us, than, perhaps, he ought to be; and then showed me a little vellum case which he found at the Lodge, and which, he was then assured, was dropped by the young lady of whom they had been talking. ❋ Unknown (1794)

"Come, uncle," said Nellie, "I thought you were going to leave the 'prating' and the 'eloquent nonsense' to we Northerners, while you would stick to the scripture argument. ❋ Unknown (1864)

Remember the words of Captain Fluellen: "If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also be an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb?" ❋ Unknown (2009)

They loathe to be told by prating, sanctimonious Lib Dems that it is only their presence that prevents this from being a thoroughly beastly government. ❋ Unknown (2011)

You may wonder that I got in such a taking over one pompous windbag spouting claptrap; usually I just sit and sneer when the know-alls start prating on behalf of the poor oppressed heathen, sticking a barb in 'em as opportunity serves-why, I've absolutely heard 'em lauding the sepoy mutineers as honest patriots, and I haven't even bothered to break wind by way of dissent. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

Seriously, the prating professor is one of the great unsung stereotypes of the literary world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They will be in, or round the house, while you stand prating! ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)

Can't the Democratic Party find someone to run against this prating fascist? ❋ Unknown (2008)

The old boy has been very happy; amusing himself with cutting paper, looking at pictures, riding on his horse, and all the time prating to me — without a moment of ill-humor (which, indeed, is hardly among his possibilities) or ill spirits. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And all this prating on about the 4th, 9th and other amendments looks for what would STOP a government from performing such an act, while I look in vain for the “kidney removal” clause EMPOWERING such an act by any Article I, II or III entity, or the states. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Now we must suffer the abuse of the soon-to-be abused prating blandly about how she and therefore they ❋ Unknown (2009)

Interesting, that for all their prating, white Americans still use black ones as their servants. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2009)

Aye, methinks that Robert Burns would have recognised our Prime Minister and that he might not have been overly impressed by another prating minister who holds himself sae pious and sae holy and whose "integrity" is assumed, ex officio. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And so a dependency culture that is a glaring affront to presbyterian* values continues even after 12 years of this pious, prating ministry. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For this former member Keating Five to be prating about his distinguished service in war and in the senate is ridiculous. ❋ Unknown (2009)