23 collocations for prattling

They're meer Images, no gentle motion or behaviour in 'em; they'll prattle ye of Primum Mobile, and tell a story of the state of Heaven, what Lords and Ladies govern in such Houses, and what wonders they do when they meet together, and how they spit Snow, Fire, and Hail, like a Jugler, and make a noise when they are drunk, which we call Thunder.

Thus it was that upon a sunny afternoon he wandered beside a little rivulet, bowered in alder and willow: here, a merry brook that prattled over pebbly bed and laughed among stones and mossy boulders, there a drowsy stream that, widening to dreamy pool, stayed its haste to woo down-bending branches with soft, kissing noises.

To Kookoo's venerable property a certain old man used for many years to come every evening, stumbling through the groups of prattling children who frolicked about in the early moonlightwhose name no one knew, but whom all the neighbors designated by the title of 'Sieur George.

When he prattled compliments and expressions of devotion, whether to herself or to others, she made Spanish allowance.

Damer: Let her go on prattling out Damer to my face, as it is often she called it behind my shoulders.

Near Anna prattled a Creole girl of sixteen with whom she now and then enjoyed a word or so: Victorine Lafontaine, daughter of our friend Maxime.

3[30] You lovely fisher-maiden, Bring now the boat to land; Come here and sit beside me, We'll prattle hand in hand.

Speak plainly, instead of prattling Latin like a clerk or a shaven monk.

So when the child was two or three years old and could prattle a little, the girl's father went to the headman and paranic and asked them what was to be done.

I did but hold my peace, to hear how prettily she prattled Love:

Mr. M. seems indeed to have a turn for this species of Nursery Tales and prattling Lullabies; and, if he will studiously cultivate his talent, he need not despair of figuring in a conspicuous corner of Mr NEWBERY's shop window: unless indeed Mrs. TRIMMER should think fit to proscribe those empty levities and idle superstitions, by which the World has been too long abused.

How often have I paused on every charm, The rustic couple walking arm in arm, The groups of trees, with seats beneath the shade For prattling babes and whisp'ring lovers made, The never-failing brawl, the busy mill, Where tiny urchins vied in fistic skill.

She livessoon she will waken; straightway Will ope her pretty eyes,glad she Will prattle merry, laughing gay!

whose mind would not his prattling loose from the pressure of anxiety?

" "Yes, we camed to purpose to hear," said Fly, from the foot-board of the bed, where she had perched and prattled every moment since she came in.

So he prattled nothings while he meditated; and you would have thought that he cared for the nothings.

Meanwhile his wife and child with cruel hope All night the door at every moment ope; Haply that child in fearful doubt may gaze, 410 Passing his father's bones in future days, Start at the reliques of that very thigh, On which so oft he prattled when a boy.

They prattled: "The rooms, when we were little and they were so big" "It was easier to walk there than anywhere else.

She prattled on at random, sometimes naive, sometimes wistful, sometimes faintly humourousa brave, clean spirit that was content to take the consequence of duty donea tender, gentle soul, undeformed amid the sordid horrors that hardened or crippled souls less innocent.

Du. keffen, to yap, to bark, also to prattle, chatter, tattle.

Our Susan, the baby that clung to thy knee, And prattled around thee in infantine glee, Has grown up, she's married and two blooming boys Have stirred in her bosom a fountain of joys.

Take holy water, cross your dark skin white; Round your proud eyes to foolish kitten looks; Walk mincingly, and smirk, and twitch your robe: Unmake yourselfdoff all the eagle plumes And be a parrot, chained to a ring that slips Upon a Spaniard's thumb, at will of his That you should prattle o'er his words again!

Young prattling Maiden, on the Thames' fair side, Enlivening pleasant Sunbury with your smiles, Time may have changed you: coy reserve, or pride, To sullen looks reduced those mirthful wiles.

23 collocations for  prattling