Could she have reached that visionary rim of finer issues-of which she always Prated-with this man, talented though he was, yet a slender reed shaken by the wind of her will?
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
Differing from all the men she had ever known-unlike them in motives, action, and aspect-in joys and griefs, passions and powers- contrasting with those crawling sycophants-pseudo-cavaliers who wore long love-locks, and Prated eternally of Court and King-in him she beheld the type of a heroic man, worthy of a woman's love-a woman's worship!
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
That youngster of whom I have Prated so much, his name is Frank Henley, denies this, and says that what the world calls nature is habit.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft