As fresh and bright as a newly-fledged bird, so brisk and pretty too-and how nicely she prattles!"
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
The very danger prattles promise.
"The Short Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009
Lady Hunstanton too, who prattles away about everybody and everything and gets mixed up in all her statements, as for instance, when referring to somebody as a clergyman who wanted to be a lunatic, she is uncertain if it was not a lunatic who wanted to be a clergyman, but who at anyrate wore straws in his hair or something equally odd, is drawn with a fidelity to nature that shows what a really great student of character Oscar Wilde was.
"Oscar Wilde"
Leonard Cresswell Ingleby