Which preposition to use with prates

of Occurrences 38%

Ah, we may prate of our superiority to the rest of the world,and God knows, we do!but, at bottom, we are worthless.

about Occurrences 23%

" You see both these are good poetry; but after one has been reading Shakspeare twenty of the best years of one's life, to have a fellow start up and prate about some unknown quality which Shakspeare possessed in a degree inferior to Milton and somebody else!

to Occurrences 9%

Truly, I" "How now," broke in the Prior in a quivering voice, his eyes glistening and his cheeks red with anger, "dost thou prate to my very beard, sirrah?

in Occurrences 3%

My politics are not those of the leather-jaws that prate in this land.

like Occurrences 3%

Of Laertes, as yet, we only know that he prates like his father, is self-confident, and was educated at Paris, whither he has returned.

at Occurrences 2%

I understand that your sentiments towards me do not partake of that Christian charity of which ye and yours do prate at times so loudly.

with Occurrences 2%

{123c} I saw also Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus, prating with Nestor and Palamedes; near him were Hyacinthus of Sparta, Narcissus the Thespian, Hylas, and several other beauties: he seemed very fond of Hyacinthus.

against Occurrences 2%

How did he prate against wedlock!

as Occurrences 1%

His mirth floats eerily down chill corridors; His sighit is a sound that loves a keyhole; His tenderness a faint court-tarnished thing; His wisdom prates as from a wicker cage; His very belly is a pompous nought; His eye a page that hath forgot his errand.

before Occurrences 1%

Do not then (concludes the Stoic) take good words in your mouth, and prate before applauding citizens of honour, duty, and so forth, while you make your private lives a mere selfish calculation of expediency.

Which preposition to use with  prates