1 They will not climb my knee, nor prattle in my ear, nor answer to my smile, but stand apart, and eye me strangely.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE 2 Vronsky heard with pleasure this light-hearted prattle of a pretty woman, agreed with her, gave her half-joking counsel, and altogether dropped at once into the tone habitual to him in talking to such women.
3 He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in listening to her prattle.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN... 4 By night it will sing, and by day Cosette will prattle.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN 5 Amy's happy prattle became intolerable.
6 Of the swiftly scampering child, all that now remained were two tiny feet, inadequate to her weight, and a tendency to prattle happily and aimlessly.
7 "O no, not at all," she said, returning to the boy's prattle.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian 8 She disliked the stiff- necked India and the foolish prattling Honey and knew they disliked her equally, but she could not stay away from them.
9 As he marched along the little branch-hung roadway among his prattling companions this vision of cruelty brooded over him.
10 If there ever were a pair of twins in danger of being utterly spoiled by adoration, it was these prattling Brookes.
11 Side by side on the narrow shawl knelt the two wanderers, the little prattling child and the reckless, hardened adventurer.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 12 She liked gossip better than anything else in the world, even more than she liked the pleasures of the table, and she prattled on for hours about other people's affairs in a harmless kindly way.
13 Aunt Pitty prattled on happily, pleased as a child at having an audience.
14 Sometimes he prattled, words coming unconsciously from him in grotesque exclamations.
15 She expressed pleasure, too, at finding a sister among her new acquaintance; and she prattled to Catherine, and kissed her, and ran about with her, and gave her quantities of presents, at the beginning.