prate

• Pleasant truth To all--save the dyspeptic To most in whom some smack of youth Hath influence antiseptic Pessimists prate, and prigs be-rate The time of mirth and holly But why should time-soured sages "slate The juvenile and jolly Though some churls at our mirth repine As old GEORGE WITHER put it We'll whiff our weed, and sip our wine And watch the youngsters foot it They did so in quaint WITHER'S time When wassail-bowls were humming And still girls laugh, and church-bells chime Because--"Christmas is coming Christmas is coming!" —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 24, 1892
• He muttered to himself, "I wouldn't dare to do this in Alexandria,--prate of a murder,--" and then glanced again toward Pisander Pisander," said Valeria, sharply, noting Pratinas's disquietude, "go out of the room. —  A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
• If even this prate is my own, it is not an earring: it will not remain hanging in your ear. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843
• Mrs. Rowland being above with him, I made the less scruple to go up too, as it was probable, that to ask for leave would be to ask to be denied; hoping also, that the letters had with me would be a good excuse She was sitting on the side of the broken couch, extremely weak and low; and, I observed, cared not to speak to the man: and no wonder; for I never saw a more shocking fellow, of a profession tolerably genteel, nor heard a more illiterate one prate--physician in ordinary to this house, and others like it, I suppose! —  Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7
• Satisfy yourself, my excellent Doctor, with your musty records of the past,--prate as you choose of the future,--but in the immediate, burning, active present my will is law! —  Ziska

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