Well," she went on, "I attach very little importance to the rumours of a projected sale or lease of Ceuta to us.
There were ugly rumoursof complications in the Transvaal.
With my poor Emily not yet buried, can you wonder I was anxious that no more lying rumours should be started.
This, we trust, will effectually silence the sensational rumours which still persist.
It is so perilously easy for rumours to get about.
Vague rumours he had heard of those few weeks at Simla during which her name and Nick Ratcliffe's had been coupled together, but he had never definitely known what had taken place.
They knew current rumours well enough; they agreed with the opinion that since his 'Village Wedding' the painter had produced nothing equal to that famous picture.
Unfortunately, some very horrid rumours had got abroad--slander invented by the wine-shop keeper opposite, said pious folks.
The rumours spread, and Whistler began to be talked of as quarrelsome.
In 1897 rumours were spread of a "Whistler Syndicate.
In the early winter of 1878 rumours of his ill-health reached the papers.
There arerumours of tremendously wild financial measures, only I believe in no rumours just now, and apparently the Bourse is as incredulous on this particular point.
Rumours of the truth went up and down the land; but the court and the Church were silent, for the King stood in need of De Roberval.
He now stood looking at his stalwart, handsome young friend and fellow-voyager with a great pity at his heart, and wondered how he could break to him the news of the rumours he had heard.
The rumours of war that flit up and down in France are mere woman's talk.
The other was the case of John Williams, now Rector of our new Academy here, who was opposed most violently upon what on examination proved to be exaggerated rumours of old Winchester stories.
A thousand different rumours prevailed at once; the public places resounded with complaints and imprecations; from moment to moment the crowd became more numerous and the tumult increased.
Such popular rumours as were then in circulation that history has deigned to preserve, accuse the Saracens of having employed perfidious means and odious stratagems to avenge themselves upon the Christian nations, and ruin their enterprise.
At first it was believed that the Christian standards were floating from the walls of Cairo and Alexandria; but to these news other rumours soon succeeded, announcing great disasters.
It is amidst the rumours of a new revolution, of a formidable war, that I am about to describe the revolutions and wars that disturbed the East and the West in the middle ages.
It is natural also to suppose, that such rumours had their origin in popular ignorance, and that they gained credit from the opinion that was then entertained of the manners and characters of infidel nations.
Are there no strange rumours afloat of late concerning Khaled the Sultan?
Rumours that the prisoners were to be removed to a new building in two or three days only contrived to render the conspirators more desperate in their craving to be at large, and again the trap-door system was discussed.
Of course, it was the object of the youthful commandant to make an attack as speedily as possible, for rumours of approaching relief threatened to put an end to his machinations and spoil his ambitious scheme.
All sorts of alarmingrumours reached England as to Gordon's fate during this hazardous ride, but on February 13th he reached Berber in safety, and we heard that he had reached Khartoum on the 18th.
Meanwhile news had reached the Mahdists of their terrible defeat at Abu Klea, and also rumoursthat the English had taken Metemmah.
At these words methought there was trouble in her voice, and I wondered whether she was aware of the rumours whereof Prince Maurice had made mention in his letter to Sir Francis Vere.
And when you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, fear ye not.
Secret treaties or understandings were new and amazingly distasteful to the Radical wing, the Lobby rumours only increased the general uneasiness, and something of a crisis was reached when the undefined alliance was joined by Russia.
The jokes of the day died in their day, and the rumours endured until they were contradicted: I cannot now believe I ever felt the spirits in which I wrote, or believed the mushroom prophecies that cropped up in the night.
There was an average, that morning, of about ten rumours to the ear.
He said that all rumours in Jerusalem become exaggerated very quickly, and offered me a guard of one soldier to follow me about!
It only needs a hatful ofrumours to set Jerusalemites at one another's throats.
Rumours of all this desolation soon penetrated to the Assembly, and on August 3 it was officially reported that property was at the mercy of gangs of brigands, that no castle, no convent, no farm-house was safe.
Bailly, who was at home, ill, had taken alarm at the persistent rumours of departure, and urged Lafayette to redouble his precautions.
The country, when you can get ice, is a paradise in this weather, especially when London's so full of ghastly rumours and all that sort of thing.
This was a very different thing from the vague letters and rumours which had reached him from time to time and which he had put out of his mind with all the contempt of the materialist.
All sorts of exaggerated rumours had been flying about.
All lesser excitements were eclipsed when we heard further rumours that the English Red Cross might take us over to replace the men driving for them at that time.
And he had heard rumours from Florence that Madame Danterre was becoming steadily weaker and more unable to make any effort.
Nor was he sorry that they should also miss the growing rumours as to the disappearance of the fortune of Sir Edmund Grosse.
That good fellow Robinson did not draw out a farthing of his deposit at the bank after disquieting rumours must have reached him.
Your father does not believe the bank can hold out for another week; it may stop payment to-morrow, since there are rumours afloat which will destroy what credit it has left.
Rumours had come in every day of the terrible sufferings of the French as they were hotly pressed by the triumphant Russians, and of the general belief that but few would survive to cross the Niemen.
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