The rumor that Mellin holds Elijah's note for one hundred thousand dollars, that the note is secured by a mortgage on the Palm Wells tract, is true.
The rumor of Elijah's defalcation had not disturbed Seymour seriously.
There was a current rumor that she smoked cigarettes, a habit then almost unknown among women.
Much artillery was moved from the works on our left to the rear, and aided to put in circulation a rumor of a new movement toward Richmond.
The rumor of this extravagant profuseness delighted the hearts of all the shopkeepers in Paris; from the hotel of the Duke of Buckingham to that of the Comte de Gramont nothing but miracles was attempted.
And so the duke is madly in love with Madame, so the rumor runs, and will have no one approach her but himself.
But surely that will prejudicially affect the rumor you were going to spread, sire?
The rumor now spread that the princess was arriving.
And then there came the rumor that the Earl of Dorincourt was not satisfied with the turn affairs had taken, and would perhaps contest the claim by law, and the matter might end with a wonderful trial.
He had taken this direction with the hope of finding Blucher again on the Mulda; but the Prussian general had recrossed the river, which contributed much to give credit to a rumor which had been circulated for some time.
Five years later, when the rumor spread that he was to have the Channel Fleet, the toast was drunk at the table of the man then in command, "May the discipline of the Mediterranean never be introduced into the Channel.
His marriage to her in July, 1782, put an end to the rumor that he was paying his addresses to Miss De Visme, to which his frequent visits to the "Hermitage" had given rise.
Until Mr. Balfour's authoritative announcement of the fact in the House of Commons many people had discredited the rumoron the ground that such an office had never been offered to a Commoner.
Though marriages of women to men many years their junior are by no means rare in British society, the rumor of this engagement, which had been afloat for quite a year, excited an unusual amount of comment and criticism.
Rumor said that it had been already partially plighted to her cousin John Carroll of Duddington Manor.
Have rumor his next flight will be an attempted non-stop refueling flight around the world.
I've been questioned in every city I've been in and so far I've managed to evade confirming the rumor but it looks like you've got me in a corner.
We want to know whether there is anything to the rumor that you're considering a non-stop refueling flight around the world," said Helen.
Some rumor of the truth has flown about the town, as I was sure when I saw Aunt Naomi coming up the walk this forenoon.
She has somehow got hold of a rumor that George is speculating.
In the month of June following, rumor came to the capitol of a new Indian outbreak on our western frontier.
The rumor of the Indian depredation proved to have originated with some settlers who, in the disguise of Indians, had tried to scare away a Norwegian from a claim which he had taken from another man.
Early the rumorcrept about among us that Lee had come up during the night with fresh troops, and assumed command.
There is a rumor abroad that Philadelphia is to be evacuated, and that the British forces contemplate a retreat overland to New York.
Perhaps she was with them--but no; I recalled the rumor about our camps that the officers' wives and the loyalist ladies were to be transported to New York by water.
More and more rumor had brought tidings of them into the once quiet village.
Rumor gave it a leader of cunning and ruthless nature.
In some places, however, the rumor spreads that he makes no slaves, and he is called "the good one.
The rumor of the Baron's death was subsequently confirmed.
The Queen manifested the greatest interest in him, and showed great kindness to his family, when the rumor came of his death.
But that is probably only a rumor in order to have a reason why every moment boats run in full of people, who, like the Rahnkes, call themselves fishermen, and have just as little right to the name.
This rumor was so well founded that many of us believed it, and, consequently, much time was spent in writing farewell letters.
A rumor that we were to return home at once would start up from nowhere in particular, and circulate until it was believed.
We took no stock in the latterrumor till an officer voiced it--then we believed.
There is no grumbling because of disturbed sleep, for a rumor has gone about the ship that Spanish vessels have been seen off the coast, and even the cranks on board admit that drills and exercises are necessary.
Of course the "Rumor Committee" were ready with news of destinations galore.
We will be ready to complete our time of service, but there are some, if rumor speaks the truth--" He finished with a significant wink.
The rumorhad gone about that it was the custom to "swat" the last man with a club, and there was a great scramble.
It was about this time that a well-authenticated rumor went the rounds to the effect that we were to go with a formidable fleet to Spain, harass her coasts, and do up Camara's fleet.
The mere rumor that the enemy was prowling along the coast was enough to prevent sleep.
There was a rumor that Delhi had fallen, and an officer had told him that there was a Major Malcolm on Nicholson's staff.
He sent me out here this morning, as he has gone to meet the movable column from Lahore, and there was a rumor of a sortie from Delhi to cut it off.
No man knows how rumor travels here," said Mr. Mayne.
The rumorspread that a metropolitan journalist had fallen out of a balloon into their midst.
The amazed onlookers soon spread the rumor that Europe was again to be plunged into war; but, viewed in the light of subsequent events, this incident had even greater significance; it marked the end of Bonaparte's colonial scheme.
The rumor spread that he was not likely to survive, and politicians in Washington began to speculate on the succession to the Presidency.
The rumor of an expected break was prevalent at these places, but citizens remarked that the rumor was a familiar incident of the annual freshets.
There was a rumor also that the reservoir at South Fork might break.
It seemed that Mrs. Carew really meant to stay abroad for years, for Madame Rumor said, in a week after their departure, that the handsome old house had been rented to a rich and eccentric old man, a relative of the late Vincent Carew.
Rumor said that the mother and daughter were making hasty preparations to sail for Europe, to be absent several years.
I eavesdropped shamelessly, but it was the same rumor I'd picked up, myself, a little earlier.
They were talking about the price of tallow-wax, and they seemed to have picked up a rumor that it was going to be cut another ten centisols a pound.
Some of them had waited patiently from early morn for an opportunity to discharge, and it was a current rumor that twenty dollars had been paid for a chance to reach the steamers.
The rumorof these movements at the capitol soon reached the West, but in the distorted form which rumor ever employs.
