| It would be difficult to say which prated most, he or pompadour. |
| He never palliated his villainy, never helped old ladies across the street to show that he was a sweet kid au fond or prated about his Oedipus complex like the Percy boys who portray heavies today…. |
| They prated about social order and stability and crowed about socialist labor discipline only to deliver the working people to exploitation by foreign monopolies and the domestic big bourgeoisie. |
| So the friendly toper prated and questioned and kept John's heart in a flutter. |
| The imperialists prated about free trade only to protect their national and ultranational economic interests and to bring about wars on a widening scale for the redivision of the world. |
| In a retirement book, he prated about the art of what he called governance. |
