She was the first of her sort to confront me in England with the question whether her very intelligent comment was conscious knowledge, or mere Parrotry.
"London Films"
W.D. Howells
The man at Miss Hernshaw's left was still talking about the play, and he was at that moment getting off a piece of pure Parrotry about it to the lady across the table: just what everybody had been saying about it from the first.
"Questionable Shapes"
William Dean Howells