Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk.
Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.
1 We prate much of the family as the unit of the state.
2 We prate a lot about the fair sex and its sweet vanities.
3 The hardest part for a soldier to play is to prate well.
4 Quoth the Khalif, Thou shalt not forestall me with talk and prate .
5 But we prate like gossiping river-men.-Wiltsee the Skimmer of the Seas?
6 And who are you that prate of Constitutional Formulas, rights of Parliament?
7 Let the little people of the world prate of their little things!
8 But, isn't that just what men mean when they prate of success?
9 My politics are not those of the leather-jaws that prate in this land.
10 The moral is: Be as vicious as you please, but prate of virtue.
11 The talkers may think otherwise, may prate of soul-stirring motives, and great ideals.
12 And surely a foolish tongue, when rules not its idle prate
13 They prate who say it is success that tries a man.
14 Achilles glared at him and answered, Fool, prate not to me about covenants.
15 We have no neighbours here-noneto stare, and pry, and prate , and slander.
16 But I am not here to prate of myself,' I replied.
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