Example Sentences

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Ruth was a laughing-eyed prattler, Thoughtless, and happy, and free; She planted a seed in the garden, And said: "It will grow to a tree— A beautiful blossoming tree."

From Debris Selections from Poems by Wagner, Madge Morris

Peggy had loved her and mothered her since she was a tiny prattler of three, and she often found her, as she declared to her gossips, "a handful."

From Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Bevan, Tom

Go, you're an idle prattler: I'll stay at home to-morrow; if your lord Thinks fit, he may command my hounds.

From The Orphan or, The Unhappy Marriage by Otway, Thomas

That, instead, this volatile, fickle prattler had used her so long as she needed her, and then dropped her heartlessly.

From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert

A precious babe of seventeen months, a sweet prattler of three years, and another of five, were called to leave this world and grow up with the angels in heaven.

From The Nest in the Honeysuckles, and other Stories by American Sunday School Union