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Sentences starting with gossip

Gossip of the Courts said that there was some strange romance behind this tireless pursuit of an inheritance, but he paid no heed. [11]
Gossip raged, of course. [9]
Gossip has never been able to connect her name with that of any man save yours, when she went for you in Castle Yard. [9]

Sentences ending with gossip

I only meant--I wouldn't do anything to make our friendship the subject of gossip. [9]
From politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry jests and gossip. [2]
I ought not to have given any cause for gossip. [11]
This belief in the sometime survival of the Roanoke colonists, and their amalgamation with the Indians, lingered long in colonial gossip. [4]
He especially befriended the correspondents of the newspapers of other cities, for, as he explained to March, those fellows could give him any amount of advertising simply as literary gossip. [8]
Do you see, that my peace here is not disturbed by idle gossip. [10]
Was she a person to run about with idle gossip? [4]
He had talked over many, if not all, of these things with Jasmine, and with no one else; but Jasmine would not gossip. [11]
He saluted the others gravely, and his eyes rested upon Achmet in a way which Higli Pasha noted for subsequent gossip. [11]
For old Fairfax's opinion he didn't care, but evidently the old fellow represented a lot of gossip. [4]

Short sentences using gossip

Don't gossip about that! [10]
Tell me some gossip. [9]
But enough of gossip. [2]

Sentences containing gossip two or more times

She did not heed, if she heard, the busy and wondering gossip of relations and acquaintances, gossip that has no less currency among the Friends than elsewhere because it is whispered slyly and creeps about in an undertone. [5]
He would not consult the Major, but the latter was in the way of picking up all sorts of gossip, both social and Street gossip. [4]

More example sentences with the word gossip in them

You're a gossip; you're a damned, pertinacious, preposterous gossip, and I'll say it as often as you like. [11]
There's gossip for you, thick as mortar," cried the charcoalman, and the mealman's fingers beat a tattoo on his stomach. [11]
Don't interrupt, unless you have something to say; though I should like to know how much gossip there is afloat that the minister does not know. [4]
It absorbed New York gossip for two days, and then another topic took possession of the mercurial city; but it was the sort of event to take possession of the country mind. [4]
Of the wonders wrought by "the great earthquake," these were all that came under my eye; but the tricks it did, elsewhere, and far and wide over the town, made toothsome gossip for nine days. [5]
The thing itself would break the daily monotony of life and provide hushed gossip for vraic gatherings and veilles for a long time to come. [11]
After the junction with the army of the brilliant admiral and Petersburg hero Wittgenstein, this mood and the gossip of the staff reached their maximum. [2]
Paris is brilliant with cafes: all the world frequents them to sip coffee (and too often absinthe), read the papers, and gossip over the news; take them away, as all travelers know, and Paris would not know itself. [4]
He turned away with a feeling of relief, however, for this gossip with the Huguenot maid would no doubt interest her, give new direction to her warm sympathies, which if roused in one thing were ever more easily roused in others. [11]
Lavilette and his wife were a little anxious; but Ferrol and Nicolas made excuses for her, and, in the wild talk and gossip about the Rebellion, attention was easily shifted from her. [11]
But no, she was quick to feel, and if there had been gossip she would have felt it in the manner of her neighbours. [11]
And so it was possible to have delightful music, and see the honest Germans drink beer, and gossip in friendly fellowship and with occasional hilarity. [4]
His good-natured Excellency was much annoyed at the gossip his henchmen created--especially when there arose a rumor that they were paid assassins of his, brought along to quietly reduce the democratic vote when desirable! [5]
But the gossip was all in old Delagarde's favour. [11]
There was no visible neglect, no sufficient alienation for gossip to take hold of. [4]
This must be vastly different from any other if it is not full of cliques and gossip and envy underneath. [4]
Well, I'm hard up; I don't mind gossip among ourselves; but sell the stuff to you--I'll see you damned first! [11]
She heard her uncle, the magistrate, speak of her father's unfortunate deed, and tell the Council how the name of Herr Ernst's daughters, who were held in such honour, had become innocently, through evil gossip, the talk of the people. [10]
And then the uncharitable gossip went on, that there was the Count de l'Auney, and that Mrs. Mavick was playing the one off against the other. [4]
He had no tongue for gossip either, so far as Fielding knew. [11]
I sprang alertly to meet wit and gossip, my mind ran nimbly here and there, I filled the role of honoured guest. [11]
Presently people began to gossip, and a story crept round that, in a new shed which he had built behind his shop, Francois was chiselling out of stone the nude figure of a woman. [11]
Besides, gossip as to a license to marry was all on the right side. [11]
Irving's letters of this period are full of the gossip of the town and the matrimonial fate of his acquaintances. [4]
Now and then, there is a letter, with the gossip of the place in it, or an account of some of the doings at our Society. [6]
Eager to hear their gossip, I appeared to sleep. [11]
In her Eden, the world had been forgotten; the hum of gossip beyond the gates had not reached her. [9]
I knew, numbering the order of his duties, that he could have but a very short time to spare for gossip at this juncture, yet I said that I could not join them for half an hour or so. [11]
There was all the news to tell, the harmless gossip of daily life, which Edith had a rare faculty of making dramatically entertaining, with her insight and her feeling for comedy. [4]
The gossip was the natural result of Mr. Cooke's large properties in the vicinity. [9]
I knew that the malicious and unthinking gossip of the town had reached him, and that he had received it in the simple faith of his hopes. [9]
If I left the house firmly resolved to bethink myself and, as I had bidden my sister, avoid danger and the gossip of the people, my feet still led me only where he desired to meet me. [10]
It was also the gossip of the bazaars that he had suddenly shown favour to those of the Royal House and to other reactionaries, who had been enemies to the influence of Claridge Pasha. [11]
On Saturday came the going to market with grain, or pork, or beef, or fowls frozen like stones; the gossip in the market-place. [11]
Pierre dined at the club that day and heard on all sides gossip about the attempted abduction of Rostova. [2]
He was at that time far beyond the span of life usually allotted to man, and what I heard him say was hardly worth retaining, for it related to the pleasures of the table, ladies' toilettes, court gossip, etc. [10]
The queer earthquake--episodes that formed the staple of San Francisco gossip for the next week would fill a much larger book than this, and so I will diverge from the subject. [5]
Your common talkers, that exchange the gossip of the day, have no wheel in particular to turn, and the wash of the rain as it runs down the street is enough for them. [6]
To all this talk, so far as it reached him, he was supremely indifferent, not only with the indifference which all gentlemen feel to the gossip of their inferiors, but with a charitable calmness which did not wonder or blame. [6]
If I do, some gossip or other will be sure to say, "Oh, he means her, of course," and find a name to match the pronoun. [6]
Morgan, who was so well informed in the gossip of society and so little involved in it--some men have this faculty, which makes them much more entertaining than the daily newspaper--knew the histories of half the people in the room. [4]
Our progress was slow when we came at last to the belvedered plantation houses amongst the orange groves; and as we sat on the wide galleries in the summer nights, we heard all the latest gossip of the capital of Louisiana. [9]
He comprehended that she had stepped forward as a shield to him in the gossip about Carmen. [4]
Have ye nae sense o' your manhood, young gentlemen, that for a mad gossip ower the wine ye wend into the dark to cut each other's throats? [11]
Her intimacy with Selby was open gossip, and there were winks and thrustings of the tongue in any group of men when she passed by. [5]
Only--only his Highness says to us--" "Don't gossip of what his Highness says, but do his bidding, Pergot. [11]
The wildest gossip said that the figure was that of the young lady at the Seigneury. [11]
In this so real dream it was the daily office work that seemed unreal, and the company and gossip of his club a kind of vain show. [4]
They can get plenty of gossip from the pilots. [5]
Thirty or forty pilgrims had arrived from the ship, by the short routes, and much swapping of gossip had to be indulged in. [5]
The lunch, and perhaps the dinner, will no longer be the occasion of satisfying the appetite or of gossip, but of improving talk. [4]
Even towards the passengers from Sydney, with their imitation English ways and little insular gossip, one could have only charity and the most kindly feeling. [4]
I think, for one, that they are very much above the level of the ordinary gossip of the country. [4]
So he rattled on, telling all the gossip he had heard among the orderlies. [2]
Then he went on to say he was an under-cook and could not stop to gossip, though he would like it another time; for it would comfort his very liver to know where I got my clothes. [5]
But sit down on the floor here--nothing else can stand your weight--and besides, we cannot be sociable with you away up there above me; I want you down where I can perch on this high counting-house stool and gossip with you face to face. [5]
The conversation turned on the contemporary gossip about those in power, in which most people see the chief interest of home politics. [2]
She took no offence at his reference to nursery gossip, which she had learned to hold cheap. [6]
The leading gossip of the village tried her skill in pumping him for information. [6]
She talked much of the lad she was to find, one Tim Macavoy, whose fame Gossip had brought to her at last. [11]
Among the groups of elders gathered for gossip were piratical Calabrians in sombre clothes, descended from Greek ancestors, once the terrors of the Adriatic Sea. [9]
Is it worthy of a sensible person to suffer courage to be depressed by a sailor's gossip? [10]
Therefore he would not let the night pass without at least showing her betrothed husband how he should regard the gossip of idle tongues if it penetrated to his hiding-place. [10]
Besides, I was not a little put out over the senseless piece of gossip which had gone abroad concerning me. [9]
Treasonable gossip filtered no longer from doorway to doorway; carbines were not to be had for a song; no more nightly drills and weekly meetings gave a spice of great expectations to their life. [11]
Alice Tynemouth was no gossip, and she was not malicious. [11]
He asked about mutual acquaintances, and she became still more animated and chattered away giving him greetings from various people and retailing the town gossip. [2]
No gossip was Mrs. Flynn, but she knew well what was going on in the parish, and she had strong views upon all subjects, and a special interest in the welfare of two people in Chaudiere. [11]
From their first meeting Els had seemed to her incapable of any careless error, and she had merely tried, by her bold, interference, to protect her from the gossip of evil tongues. [10]
You may shoot me from behind a tree or a rock, but swording with you--come, come, a pretty gossip for the Court! [11]
They repeated with malicious intent the gossip that Grant drank. [7]
I've got to make some great plunge, or in a few years more I'll be a middle-aged peeress with nothing left but a double chin, a tongue for gossip, and a string of pearls. [11]
There was much lounging in apothecaries' shops to smoke tobacco, gossip, and hear the news. [4]
There is no limit to the various intelligence and gossip that our complex life offers--no paper is big enough to contain it; no reader has time enough to read it. [4]
How should she know what gossip was going on in the town! [11]
He came to know the gossip gone abroad that the Duke had already chosen him for heir. [11]
I, as you know full well, do not care for gossip in the bath nor for reclining long over a banquet. [10]
Count Rostopchin alone kept the conversation going, now relating the latest town news, and now the latest political gossip. [2]
With a sigh, Jean Jacques turned back to the study of the road before him, to gossip with Zoe, and to keep on planning subconsciously the new things he must do. [11]
And he resented it, and was "huffy" when he was with her, and ran her errands, and brought her gossip, and bragged of his intimacy with the lovely creature among the fellows at Newspaper Row. [5]
Into these rooms is poured daily the news of the world, and these young fellows toss it about as lightly as if it were household gossip. [4]
And, gemini, gossip is like water, and will get in if a crack shows. [9]
Weeks had grown into months, and no news came--none save that which the Cure let fall, or was brought by the irresponsible Notary, who heard all gossip. [11]
She knew, indeed, how much he made in his speculations, how much he lost at cards; she knew through him the gossip of the clubs, and venturing herself not too far at sea, liked to watch the undertow of fashionable life. [4]
In the same hour Ranulph heard a piece of hateful gossip which made him fell to the ground the man who told him, and sent him with white face, and sick, yet indignant heart, to the cottage in the Place du Vier Prison. [11]
Out upon the honour which is harmed by gossip! [10]
The "interviewer" has his use, undoubtedly, and often instructs and amuses his public with gossip they could not otherwise listen to. [6]
He saw that his pistols were duly primed, he learned that Tardif had passed but two hours before, boasting again that Europe would have gossip for a year, once he reached Quebec. [11]
An artist after his kind, he no sooner got what he wanted than he carefully coaxed his victim away from thoughts of the disclosures into the vague distance of casual gossip once more. [11]
Zermatt gossip darkly hints that the elder Taugwalder cut the rope, when the accident occurred, in order to preserve himself from being dragged into the abyss; but Mr. Whymper says that the ends of the rope showed no evidence of cutting, but only of breaking. [5]
His stepmother received him kindly and began to talk on indifferent subjects; but he replied with ill-disguised impatience, for he had not come to chatter and gossip. [10]
We bowed, but he made no motion to come to me, and the Intendant engaged me almost at once in gossip of the town; suddenly, however, diverging upon some questions of public tactics and civic government. [11]
More than once he had walked behind the wheel-chair and pushed it some distance, making the little crippled man gossip of village matters. [11]
At Katharina's request he had opened a communication between the two houses by means of carrier-pigeons, and many missives were thus despatched with little gossip, invitations, excuses, and the like, from Katharina to Mary and back again. [10]
That was because he had not learned the small gossip which varies little with a thousand people in the same circumstances. [11]
The Sorrento people have no end of gossip about the wild island; and, simple and primitive as they are, Capri is still more out of the world. [4]
As fate would have it, she met on the highroad the least scrupulous man in the parish, an inveterate gossip, the keeper of the general store, whose only opposition in business was the post-office shop. [11]
And, as it happened, our serious conference was carried on with an air of easy gossip, combined with a not artificial interest in all we saw. [11]
But the heir had gone West, and as the summer wore on, the gossip died down. [9]
His long gossip had been more or less detached, and I had said nothing. [11]

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