Example Sentences

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You will not answer, he said, according to your view of the meaning, because you will be prating, and are an ancient.

From Euthydemus by Jowett, Benjamin

You will be prating, though you nothing know: This he must bear, and be contented too, See his Friends slighted, and must silent be, Till Death shall from the Torment set him free.

From The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses from Men by Various

She hath an Usher and a Waiting Gentlewoman, A Page, a Coach-man, these are fee'd and fee'd And yet for all that will be prating.

From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10) The Womans Prize; The Island Princess; The Noble Gentleman; The Coronation; The Coxcomb by Beaumont, Francis

You know nothing about catching beavers and yet you will be prating about it.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir