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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

He saw that the tendency of the times was in the direction of literature; schools of philosophy were springing up on every side, logic and poetry were prated in every household.

From Second Book of Tales by Field, Eugene

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

When he got a bit of sunshine, the old lazarone basked in it; he prated about his own affairs and past splendor, and all the lords, generals, and lord-lieutenants he had ever known.

From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace

This impost was very small—avowedly a "pepper-corn rent," retained to save the national honor, about which ministers prated so loudly.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various