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Updated: May 15, 2025
At last Pedro Alvarez whispered his suspicions to Lawrence Brindister that the reverend father had played them a slippery trick, and left Shetland altogether; this idea was found to be correct, when Sandy McNab, the pedlar and great news-monger of the district, paid his next visit to Whalsey.
At length I stood immediately in front of the arbour; an abbot rushes out and almost runs over me; he turns his head to look at me; I recognise my good friend Signor Lodovico, my musical news-monger from Rome. 'What in the name of wonder' I exclaim. 'Oh, sir! sir! he screams, 'save me, protect me from this mad fury, from this crocodile, this tiger, this hyæna, this devil of a woman.
He had not spoken twenty words, but he had satisfied the news-monger of Flat Creek that Ralph was a bad character at home and worthy of suspicion of burglary. The author now knows that such people are not to be put into books. "It's very good for the health to dig in the elements. I was quite emaciated last year at the East, and the doctor told me to dig in the elements.
Trenta considered himself, and was generally considered by others, as a universal news-monger; it was a habit that had remained to him from his former life at court. From the time of Polonius downward a court-chamberlain has always been a news-monger. "Heard? Why, the news the great news," Baldassare spoke in the same jeering tone.
Now be it understood, that this young man was neither a gossip nor news-monger; but, being at present a resident of the largest hotel in the place, he was, from the force of circumstances, apt to be the hearer of various items of interest, and these, for reasons which seemed good to himself, he usually considered it necessary to bring over to the homestead as soon as possible after they came to his knowledge.
There has been hot fighting; Heaven has given us the victory; the King's cause is wellnigh lost at the first push." Brilliana felt her heart drumming against her stays, but she turned a defiant face on the news-monger. "I do not believe you," she answered. "The King's cause will always win."
I suppose you're soft on the girl yourself," he sneered. "Think yourself a hero! Do you think she'd look at you, a beggarly news-monger? Why, she " "You can leave her out of it," said Rainey, quietly. "As for you, I think you're a dirty blackguard."
There, for instance, was Patience, the maiden aunt, his father's sister, the news-monger of the fireside, whose powers of ratiocination first gave Philip the Greek idea and method of reasoning to a point and arriving at truth by the process of exclusion.
Chesterfield, another of the contributors to The World, inserted in it a short character of him under the name of Cantabrigiensis, introduced by an encomium on his temperance; for he was a water-drinker. That he was what is commonly termed a news-monger, appears from the following laughable story, told by the late Mr. George Hardinge, the Welch Judge:
Stanley?" asked a bright lively girl, Ethel Thompson by name, the gossip and news-monger of the school. "No; what is it?" cried several voices. "Well, you must keep it to yourselves, you know," she said in a confidential tone, "but he has failed, he is a bankrupt." "Are you sure it is true?" asked one and another. "How do you know?"
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