The quidnuncs of the town, who chanced to see him, and who had heard something of the political movements of the day, thought, no doubt, that he was meditating his future ministerial career.
London had been bewildered, and its literary quidnuncs utterly puzzled, when such a story first came forth inscribed with an unknown name.
First, the quidnuncs on Liars' Walk were regaled at the end of January by the sight of four gentlemen of birth being led past the Calle Mayor to be hanged instead of beheaded.
But when it was read by the quidnuncs on the following day it was found to contain so deep a meaning that it produced from Mr. Ratler's mouth those words of fear which have been already quoted.
Later, when the affair was made public, the quidnuncs of London could tell the most private details of his adultery with the Queen;[153] for Cromwell took care that such gossip should be well circulated.
What may at first have seemed to be quite a Utopian enterprise to quidnuncs in American social and political circles is to him a very ordinary business.
It was an exciting time, and quidnuncs of all parties were eagerly anticipating what the dark-skinned professor would say.
One can flee the quidnuncs of the salon, but not the questioning perplexity of one's heart.
Illustration] To see so strange and sad a sightQuidnuncs and gobemouches ran, And swore the dog was rabid quite To bite that Grand Old Man.
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