- present participle of prattle.
Example Sentences
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You've lived a year, then, yesterday, sweet child, Prattling thus happily!
From Poems by Hugo, Victor
Prattling of love and happiness and smiling still when she no longer had strength to utter his name, she peacefully died within his arms.
From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)
To him succeeded Dyer: "The little smiling cottage, when at eve He meets his rosy children at the door, Prattling their welcomes, and his honest wife, ———————————————— intent To cheer his hunger after labour hard."
Gods! to hear these shallow wenches taking citizens to task, Prattling of a brassy buckler, jabbering of a martial casque!
From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive
Some, smitten hearts with the long secrecies, On velvet moss, deep in their bowers' ease, Prattling the love of timid infancies, Are tearing the green bark from the young trees.
From Silverpoints by Gray, John
