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4 total sentences available.
Side by side on the narrow shawl knelt the two wanderers, the little prattling child and the reckless, hardened adventurer. Her chubby face and his haggard, angular visage were both turned up to the cloudless heaven in heartfelt entreaty to that dread Being with whom they were face to face, while the two voices—the one thin and clear, the other deep and harsh—united in the entreaty for mercy and forgiveness.
Source: tatoeba (6310889)
She spent an hour prattling on about her new job.
Source: tatoeba (12246679)
I haue heard of your pratlings too wel enough.
Source: wiktionary
The boy, who had been regarding him with the tolerant curiousness one accords to the prattlings of the feeble-minded, answered promptly.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include babbling, blather, chatter, gab, gabble.
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