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So also, as a few years passed by, the havoc which the pestilence and the sword had made in her population was repaired; and in 415 Athens was full of bold and restless spirits, who longed for some field of distant enterprise wherein they might signalize themselves and aggrandize the state, and who looked on the alarm of Spartan hostility as a mere old-woman's tale.
Here are the hunters who shall see you do not escape. Go into the forest and gather your medicine." Makamuk had been convinced of the worth of the medicine by the Pole's rapacity. Surely nothing less than the greatest of medicines could enable a man in the shadow of death to stand up and drive an old-woman's bargain.
News of many sorts can now be circulated only by word of mouth. The queerest stories are whispered about and find at least temporary credence. Sensation-mongers appear at every old-woman's knitting circle. And all this has an effect on conduct. Two young wives of noble officers now in France have just run away with two other young noblemen to the scandal of a large part of good society in London.
Powers in her place, absurdly light and elastic, treading the floor in her flat, old-woman's shoes with brilliant precision. "All promenade!" cried Frank, this time his voice exultant that the end was successfully reached. He seized Nelly by the waist and danced with her the length of the room, followed by the other couples. The music stopped.
Established at the tea-table, she poured out a torrent of talk in broadest Scotch, in her high-pitched cracked old-woman's voice, and gave us an intimate domestic history of all the British residents of the district.
The heathen objectors in Minucius and Lactantius speak of their "old-woman's tales." Celsus accuses them of "assenting at random and without reason," saying, "Do not inquire, but believe." "They lay it down," he says elsewhere: "Let no educated man approach, no man of wisdom, no man of sense; but if a man be unlearned, weak in intellect, an infant, let him come with confidence.
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