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Updated: June 2, 2025
But I, angry at Captain Jed for his look and with Sim Eldredge and his companions for their impudent stares and the trouble I knew their gossipy tongues would make for me, was gloomy and resentful. She did most of the talking and I walked beside her, putting in a word occasionally and doing my best to appear as unconcerned as she really was.
It was a delightful excuse for Janet's resumption of her old friendly, gossipy ways; and every afternoon saw her in some crony's house, spreading out her work, and explaining her design, and receiving the praises and sometimes the advice of her acquaintances. Christina also, quietly but yet hopefully, began again her preparations for her marriage; for Janet laughed at her fears and doubts.
It quickened the beat of his heart like a drug. It drove thought of everything else out of his mind. He opened it and the faint perfume of it flowed over him and possessed his senses and his imagination.… It was a long, gossipy letter and told him of nearly everything that Julia had done in the six months since they had parted “forever”. The salient fact was that she had been married.
I found it was true that my own little village really had far more interesting people in it than any I had read about, and I learned to love all the dear, cranky, gossipy old characters in it, because I studied them so closely that I found how good at heart they were despite their peculiarities and foibles. "That's what I want you to do this winter, Lloyd.
This lady's maid, who loved mathematics and anatomy, was familiar with Malebranche and Descartes, and left some literary reputation as a writer of gossipy memoirs, was a prominent figure in the lively court at Sceaux for more than forty years, and has given us some vivid pictures of her capricious mistress.
Nor had certain gossipy members of the picnic party refrained from canvassing threadbare the significance of the unfortunate scene which had taken place on that occasion contributory evidence to the truth of the chambermaid's account of what she had overheard. The whole town hummed with the tale, and Garth had not long been allowed to remain in ignorance of the fact.
What must have started as an idle, gossipy rumour developed into a serious charge that my husband had hastened his old guardian's death.
"So, you see, I can't very well get conceited about what we are doing here although, of course, I am proud of it, too, in a way " She stopped then, afraid they would think she was gossipy and she let them talk for a while. The conversation turned to her last advertisement. "Are you sure your figures are right?" asked one.
His diary was kept in cipher, and published only in 1825. Being written for his own eye, it is singularly outspoken; and its naïve, gossipy, confidential tone makes it a most diverting book, as it is, historically, a most valuable one. The king carried a copy of it in his pocket, and Pepys testifies that it was quoted and praised on all sides. Ridicule of the Puritans was nothing new.
Somehow Mona did not get a very favorable impression of her employer from this gossipy information; but her fate was fixed for the present, and she resolved to do the best that she could, and not worry regarding the result.
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