How To Use Prater In A Sentence
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Yorkshire abused by such a pitiful prater; and when wrought up to a certain pitch, she would turn and say something of which neither the matter nor the manner recommended her to Mr. Donne's good - will.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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“This puts me in mind,” said I, “of an Irish pilot who asked the purser of a ship I formerly belonged to, to spare him an empty barrel to make his pig a hencoop, and he would give him a sack of praters for nothing at all, at all.”
A Sailor of King George
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What! a speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad.
The Life of King Henry the Fifth
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He who joins in the mutiny is termed a good pilot and what not; they have no conception that the true pilot must observe the winds and the stars, and must be their master, whether they like it or not; — such an one would be called by them fool, prater, star-gazer.
The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
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Zophar of Naamath reproached thee with being a prater; but none of these good friends lent thee a crown.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Cocksbod, said the steward, we have met with a prater.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Nothing about Appalachia makes it memorable or distinct, except perhaps the setting, though a reader can find the same setting for a religious dystopia in Lon Prater's 2005 short story, "Deadglass.
Archive 2008-08-01
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Will he not be called by them a prater, a star-gazer, a good-for-nothing?
The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
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John Prater, head of the largest North American pilot union, testified that financial pressures – especially if the economy worsens – threaten to inhibit safety programs at certain commuter operations.
Airline Officials Tout Safety Improvements Among Commuter Airlines
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All enjoyed a meal catered by Prater's Barbeque and musical entertainment provided by the bluegrass and gospel group, the Buck Mountain Boys.
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Bentley having spoken thus, Scaliger, bestowing him a sour look, “Miscreant prater!” said he,
The Battle of the Books
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The etymology of 'prat' is unclear, but I think it relates to prate 'chatter', which had such derivatives as prater and prattle.
On being linguistically defeated
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This young woman might talk politics, thought her new friend; no male man would call her prater, while she bore herself with that air.
The Testing of Diana Mallory
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The Editorial Page is consistently an embarrassment, the Opinion Page hasn't updated their contributor rolodex in decades and the paper carries a gaggle of inside-the-beltway dilettantes who almost never add anything of substance to the debate (you know: Broder, Milbank, Kurtz and the other regurgitators of cocktail party prater on the WP payroll).
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