For a few months he rushed Nellie Tolliver, a brilliant hand at auction; but he tired of her stiff preoccupation with the narrow limits of gossiping small talk.
One night she yielded a narrow seat for him on the porch-swing, an openly demanded tete-a-tete, although the cushions on the stone steps and the settles within were warm with gossiping friends.
Did you not know that he becomes violently angry at the merest mention of the family ghost, and has discharged several servants for gossiping over it?
I met a man outside who kept me gossiping about trifles.
I know it sounds like humbug to hear me talk like this, but they were gossiping about you in the village.
The evidence given had been the subject of thousands of gossiping tongues.
Think of the stories which gossiping tongues will be telling about her just now!
Culpepper was filling with fugitives when I passed up the main street, and they were sprinkled along the sidewalks, gossiping with each other.
When the dance was at an end Ichabod was attracted to a knot of the sager folks, who, with old Van Tassel, sat smoking at one end of the piazza gossiping over former times and drawing out long stories about the war.
They had played together in infancy; they had worked together in manhood; they were now tottering about and gossiping away the evening of life; and in a short time they will probably be buried together in the neighboring churchyard.
There was one dapper little gentleman in bright-colored clothes, with a chirping gossiping expression of countenance, who had all the appearance of an author on good terms with his bookseller.
Travellers of inferior order were preparing to attack this stout repast, while others sat smoking and gossiping over their ale on two high-backed oaken settles beside the fire.
During the time of the Fair, which is held in the adjoining regions of Smithfield, there is nothing going on but gossiping and gadding about.
That he was an open-mouthed gossiping man, his account of his very solemn mission to the death-bed of the spy shows.
A gossiping missive is subjoined, the less reluctantly because Magan, having often stood in misanthropic isolation, it is pleasant to find any person who came in frequent contact with him.
The pleasure I used to take in telling my boy stories of the battles, and asking my girl questions about the disposal of her baby, and the gossiping of it, is turned into inward reflection and melancholy.
He tells what he thinks and what he feels, where and when he dines, when he gets up, and when he goes to bed, all the gossiping details interesting to one who loves us and whom we love.
The secret of his resolution against marriage was accounted for by the gossiping public in many ways variously absurd.
Old acquaintances dropped in without ceremony and remained the morning with her, gossiping of times past and present: or she dropped into their houses, and remained with them.
The fact was, that gossiping Prior's Ash had for some time coupled together the names of George Godolphin and Charlotte Pain in its usual free manner.
My son Timothy," said Philip, "you are a gossiping old wife.
Do you know, I expect they play bridge because they like it, and find it a more pleasant relaxation at the end of the day than cooking unholy messes over their study fires or gossiping in the dormitory?
With my own people gossiping they might tell her things which I don't want anyone to know.
Though this is the most gossiping town in Europe, I should have thought there was roguery enough in it also, to keep the inhabitants from meddling unnecessarily with a police officer.
Wilton; "for apprehensions of the rude curiosity and brutal scorn of that most gossiping place, have driven them to seek an asylum on the continent.
The Lord Prime Minister says we must be gossipingabout other people.
If some one had been looking at me from behind [Japanese expression signifying "gossiping about or criticizing"], I must have been ashamed indeed.
He has been every day entertain'd at some great man's,' says gossiping Peter Wentworth.
Instead of gossiping with everybody he met, as Arkwright had done, Crompton kept by himself and lived quietly at home with his mother.
So Arkwright found out all he could by gossiping about Hargreaves's spinning jenny, and no one was quicker to see what such an invention would mean to England than he.
Mrs. Sellers went gossiping comfortably along: "Oh, they like to hear him talk, especially if their load is getting rather heavy on one shoulder and they want to shift it.
Amid this gossiping and jesting throng, wandered a fat, silent personage, closely muffled in a cloak.
When she was not whispering and gossiping with Karen, she sang quite gaily in the little tiring chamber to which she had taken a special fancy.
Since the king's arrival at Wordingborg, Aage had not seen the captive maidens; it appeared that he had heard the gossiping reports of his warm interest for them, and that he feared to injure their cause or their reputation by a visit.
The evil of a wandering and a gossiping spirit; this is evil in the church, and is evil also in a wife, who is the figure of a church.
My wife, as she said last night, hath put away Nell to-day, for her gossiping abroad and telling of stories.
The Wife of Bath is drawn by Chaucer at full length as a shameless woman, pert, loquacious, and bold, whose favorite occupation is gossiping and rambling abroad in search of fashionable diversions, in the absence of her husband.
Even the women spent much of their time gossiping and drinking in such places, where they found great latitude for carrying out low intrigues.
The men loyally kept the secret, even Petherick restraining his gossiping tongue, for he had a wholesome fear of Tonkin.
He made travesties upon Virgil and Lucian, which are characterized by great licentiousness; and wrote a gossiping and humorous Voyage to Ireland.
Among the unintentional historians of England, none are of more value than those who have left detailed and gossiping diaries of the times in which they lived: among these Evelyn occupies a prominent place.
Aubrey, a gossiping chronicler of the next generation, says he was a butcher, and some biographers assert that he was a glover.
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