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“Y’ are a prater, Bennet, a talker, a babbler; your mouth is wider than your two ears.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The dear prater went on—My guardian called me aside, when tea was over.

From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Richardson, Samuel

Nor again does Free-Will mean lawless in the sense of irrational; or causeless, in the sense of having no motive: "contra legem," "præter legem" is not "contra rationem," "prater rationem."

From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various

Can none be in your company, Babbalanja, but you must perforce make them hob-a-nob with that old prater?

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman

And, after that, the worthy prater Aspires to be a legislator; Dreams of St. Stephen's, where he sees Himself hobnobbing with M.P.'s.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner