22 adjectives to describe prattle

From a photograph by Lewis Carroll.] Of course the story has other features, delightful nonsense not surpassed by anything in "Wonderland," childish prattle with all the charm of reality about it, and pictures which may fairly be said to rival those of Sir John Tenniel.

This he had found out, he said, by my own innocent prattle, and that he was so offended with his brother, my uncle, that he would not enter his house; and then he said what a little happy good child I had been all the way, and that when he found I did not know him, he would not tell me who he was, for the sake of the pleasant surprise it would be to me.

He watched its graceful play as if hypnotized, and began babbling to himself in an incoherent prattle.

" Now, this silly prattle had been carried on in the arbor near the library, and Wesley, sitting under the curtain, had heard every word of it.

"How is it not absurd, if we have a garment better than the rest, that we forbear to use it continually, but in the most slight and common way do wear the name of God?" How grievous indecency is it, at every turn to summon our Maker, and call down Almighty God from heaven, to attend our leisure, to vouch our idle prattle, to second our giddy passions, to concern His truth, His justice, His power in our trivial affairs!

Thy gentle prattle at the pane Makes timorous Fancy smile: Then let me hear that tender strain; Blithe charmer, stay a while.

[Illustration: FAUST AND MARGARET From the Painting by Carl Becker] A traveler from complaisance Still makes the best of things; I know Too well, my humble prattle never can Have power to entertain so wise a man.

There was a deal of foolish prattle there in the firelightdelectable prattle, irresponsible as the chattering of birds after a storm.

Morrice is all skipping, officious impertinence, Mr. Gosport all sarcasm, Lady Honoria all lively prattle, Miss Larolles all silly prattle.

But through her mild prattle, and in spite of her limited perceptions.

we cannot and we will notdefer to any outworn tradition or to fear of Mrs. Grundy's narrow-minded prattle!" Charteris swept aside the dogmas of the world with an indignant gesture of somewhat conscious nobility; and he turned to his companion in an attitude of defiance.

To see dear baby so improved by the very change I dreaded, and to hear her pretty, cheerful prattle, and to find in her such a source of joy and comfortwhat undeserved, what unlooked-for mercies!

Gossip was constant, and while sometimes caustic, more often it partook of curiosity and mere trading of information or salacious prattle.

Olney had left the door openthe sound of shuffling feet and a shrill prattle of words heralded Lord Almeric's return.

Sometimes I leave her alone, sometimes lie on the bench facing her, while she reads aloud, or, tiring, prattles.

I like best the earlier ones, that say so much in their half-unconscious prattle, and talk nature to me instead of high art."

il faut" "Why, how are you to judge?" asks the father, amused at the lad's candid prattle, "and where does the difference lie?"

Further to profane it, devout women had interfered, and stupid sacristans and foolish salons had acclaimed as works of genius the wretched prattle of such women.

To see dear baby so improved by the very change I dreaded, and to hear her pretty, cheerful prattle, and to find in her such a source of joy and comfortwhat undeserved, what unlooked-for mercies!

I sit night after night in my mother-in-law's "budwar," the crimson-satin chairs staring at me, the wedding-cake ornament with its silver leaves glittering in the electric light; I sit there listening vaguely to her admonitions and endless prattle of Augustus's perfections.

There was a deal of foolish prattle there in the firelightdelectable prattle, irresponsible as the chattering of birds after a storm.

There was a deal of foolish prattle there in the firelightdelectable prattle, irresponsible as the chattering of birds after a storm.

22 adjectives to describe  prattle