Example Sentences
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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
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
People said that such an example of conjugal felicity was not often seen in those degenerate days, for even then they prated of the golden age of their grandfathers, lamenting their own decadence....
From Orientations by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Inspiration—and I had prated about inspiration often enough; inspiration only became inspiration when it was recognised as such.
From The Tale of Lal A Fantasy by Paton, Raymond
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
