All this prattling about compartmentalization has got to stop.

She longed for the silly woman to stop prattling and to blow out the candle.

This prattling of theirs hardly deserves the name of sophistry.

Better you be truly dead so you cannot corrupt any foolish ones with your prattling of forgotten things.

"This prattling has continued for too long.

The prattling, remote voices fell silent.

If Xenexians spent time prattling on and on about every fistfight or violent encounter, nothing would ever get done.

He prevents her from spending the last bit of their money on a hat, voices reservations about her ability to bake a pie and, when tired of her prattling, simply meows.

Alternative names for it include St. Patrick's Cabbage, Whimsey, Prattling Parnell, and Look Up And Kiss Me.

The air was full of the clack of their voices and the merry prattling of children, in strange contrast to the flash of arms and constant warlike challenge from the walls above.

A result of this vague but grandiose ambition is a messy hodgepodge of a book, a book filled with both insightful observations and hackneyed statements of the obvious, interesting facts and self-indulgent prattling, provocative questions and unsatisfying answers.

'And when I come home from my labour at night, To my wife and my children, in whom I delight; To see them come round me with prattling noise, - Now these are the riches a poor man enjoys.

Crickets and frogs halted their nocturnal prattling for a moment as if in homage to this great event, owls ruffled their feathers and were still, the dogs in town and the coyotes on the mesa quit issuing bloodthirsty challenges to each other--the world grew remarkably still as a Jewish star was born.

I would he had some cause To prattle for himself.

Instead, I'd let her prattle on about the good old days.

She prattled on about what a nice party it was.

Close your accounts and leave him to prattle away to himself.

The man across from him had sat down only a minute ago and already prattled on.

Now she heard his other voice start to prattle on again about this and that, while the question remained.

But she said it only in thought and Mercy prattled on.

She used to prattle about him, proud as if he was making a queen of her.

Yet his people prattle on as if they had all the time and space in the world. "

Not if the guests are outside your window prattling on all night when you're trying to sleep.

As he prattled, I tried to decipher what the future held for me.

Later Eddie did the dishes while his parents prattled away.

They prattled so easily of a species as though the single individual mattered little.

No movie star wanted to prattle about her designer dress while the nation was at war.

"We are trapped in here, and you prattle on as if nothing were the matter!

Oh, well, he thought, it'll all be for the best, once I hear her prattling nonsense.

This was a very odd question, but she prattled on without hesitation.

The lackey prattled on about children being the resources of the future.

She prattled on for another fifty dollars worth before hanging up.

Something in my countenance pleased him, when I began to prattle.

Here I am prattling on about titles and you don't even say anything!

"It is not for me to prattle on with gossip.

Olivia was prattling away happily, making him wait for the big news until they were alone.

The leaves danced and prattled in the wind all round about us.

You had to wonder how long these guys could prattle on before we get to a commercial or at least a piece of tape.

And so she waited, trying with all her might to follow the child's prattle.

How many hours have been made happy by her childish prattle!

It was well past eight, and only the prattle of the night shift interrupted my being alone.

Forget all that mad prattle about the end of the millennium.

We've no time for your prattle about caverns and bats.

For all the prattle, the fact is that the partners come away nearly empty-handed.

But they spare the world the prattle about brotherhood while doing the killing.

I tried to stop such foolish prattle, but the villagers would not be convinced.

I made her think that a prattle of maxims would do, all thin and clear as water.

Though it might seem like prattle, somewhere hidden was meaning - and danger.

Why subject themselves to all this soft English prattle?

"So little of interest buried in all of that prattle."

What he himself gripped in his briefcase was beginner's prattle.

The mullahs will not listen to the prattle of columnists.

An ugly gasping sound came from me, suspending his prattle.

This would provide a simple way to stop Helen's prattle about "places" and it might even be enjoyable.

She never fails to soothe you with her speechless prattle.

Hawk, who is only half listening to the good doctor's prattle, feels compelled to say something.

The warlords of the Tenth may listen to his prattle."

"Now cease your prattle and do as you're told."

Besides that, the boy's prattle was very useful indeed.

It's subsided a bit, but one can still hear a lot of prattle about America's future as a wine-consuming country.

Have we gained any ground with all of this long-winded prattle?"

A prattle of voices had begun on the soundtrack.

Such prattle diminishes real torture, which is committed by and upon every nationality.