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Sentences starting with rumor

Rumor had it that he was sorting out the sheep from the goats, silently choosing those who were to remain on the island and those who were to take part in the campaign. [9]
Rumor had not lied; the goddess really found the sarcophagus and the dead body of her husband on the northern shore of the lake. [10]
Rumor is a big thing, especially in a panic, eh? [4]

Sentences ending with rumor

This singing voice thrilled to my very heart; Neithotep's son, who was my companion, called it 'the wind of rumor. [10]
Mrs. Mavick did not deny the rumor. [4]
He did not, indeed, ask the opinion of the senate, and yet he felt that it would be better that news of the day's events should reach the curia under his own hand than through the distorting medium of rumor. [10]
Of course if his own conception is not clear, he will be as unjust as in writing about a person in real life whose character he knew only by rumor. [4]
Nothing so shameful as this has ever come before, nothing that cuts so deep, nothing that has dragged France so low; therefore there is hope that this tale is but another idle rumor. [5]
Have you heard any Street rumor? [4]

Sentences containing rumor two or more times

The rumor was of a Mr. Isaac Dudley Worthington, a name destined to make much rumor before it was to be carved on the marble. [9]

More example sentences with the word rumor in them

I suppose what you have heard a rumor of was not a general battle, but an "affair" at Bristow Station on the railroad, a few miles beyond Manassas Junction toward the Rappahannock, on Wednesday, the 14th. [7]
It was rather with a tremulous interest than with open hilarity that the rumor was generally received. [6]
Was it he who started the old rumor which made such havoc that afternoon? [9]
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]
Count Luigi was waiting, too; but not patiently, rumor said. [5]
And it seemed to him that he had heard a rumor, amongst the clerks in the store; that she was to marry him one day. [9]
Some had supposed there was a mutual attachment between them; there was a story that they were secretly betrothed, in accordance with the rumor which had been current in the village. [6]
But of late the rumor had grown persistently that Nollichucky Jack was now a kind of fugitive, and that he had passed the summer pleasantly enough fighting Indians in the vicinity of Nick-a-jack Cave. [9]
The city of the Pharaohs was in unwonted agitation, for the storm-swift breath of rumor had spread some news which excited both alarm and hope in the huts of the poor as well as in the palaces of the great. [10]
A rumor reached the capital and radiated thence to every city and town and hamlet, and was followed by other rumors like confirmations. [9]
And thus matters stood till rumor waxed loud and roused me from my leaden slumber. [10]
Gorgo could not share these hopes; a client of her father's had brought in a rumor that the Biamites, after advancing as far as Naucratis, had been dispersed by a few of the Imperial maniples. [10]
There was a rumor, some one said, that Salisbury was making preparations to march against Orleans. [5]
I hear a rumor to-day that you recently sought to arrest her, but were prevented by her presenting the paper from me. [7]
There is a rumor that you are thinking of peace. [2]
Also that other rumor that English nobility acquired an added stench the other day--and had to ship it to India and the continent because there wasn't any more room for it at home? [5]
This was the rumor of another will, and of Henderson's vast scheme of benevolence. [4]
There was a rumor about town that Henderson was a good deal extended. [4]
Shields at Front Royal reports a rumor of still an additional force of the enemy, supposed to be Anderson's, having entered the valley of Virginia. [7]
A rumor ran round the House at one moment that the vote was going in favor of the second reading. [6]
His lordship then referred to the rumor of a meditated blockade by us of Southern ports, and a discontinuance of them as ports of entry. [7]
Mr. Catherwood's Ben, reeking of the stable, had brought the rumor of the marching on the camp into the dining-room, and close upon the heels of this the rumble of the drums and the passing of Sigel's regiment. [9]
I suppose all of them were surprised at this rumor of a school or sect, and certainly at the name of Transcendentalism, given, nobody knows by whom, or when it was applied. [6]
If any rumor of the former discourse had reached Dartmouth, the audience must have been prepared for a much more startling performance than that to which they listened. [6]
But a little later a rumor reached Mr. Balch's ears that Jethro's hatred of Isaac D. Worthington was at the bottom of his reappearance in public life, although Jethro himself never mentioned Mr. Worthington's name. [9]
The monk had known the old smith well, and he also knew many things about the son and his destiny, yet no more than rumor entrusts to one person concerning another's life. [10]
Bob did not know that rumor, too, was spreading in Brampton. [9]
A rumor attributed it to Scott, who was always masquerading; at least, it was said, he might have revised it, and should have the credit of its exquisite style. [4]
Next day there is a rumor that somebody has seen a bluebird. [4]
It just shows how a malicious rumor will spread. [9]
Pontius had desired him to come to the palace and he had made his appearance at once, for, since the evening before, a rumor had been afloat that the Emperor was staying in Alexandria, and was inhabiting the palace at Loehias. [10]
My nerves had hardly grown quiet after this affair when they got another shake-up--one which utterly unmanned me for a moment: a rumor swept suddenly through the camp that one of the barkeepers had fallen over a precipice! [5]
The terrible rumor had scared the pious sisters out of their wonted peace and put them all into confusion, like smoke blown into a bee-hive. [10]
The first rumor had been false. [9]
Of all that grows on earth nothing grows so quickly as Rumor, and yet it is a miserable foundling that never knows its own parents. [10]
Open your ears; for which of you will stop, The vent of hearing when loud Rumor speaks? [5]
This rumor, unhappily for the bird (which will freeze to death), is confirmed. [4]
She was waiting for him with feverish anxiety, as a rumor of all that had happened had already reached the harem and penetrated to her apartments. [10]
The few meagre facts of Harriet Shelley's life, as furnished by the book, acquit her of offense; but by calling in the forbidden helps of rumor, gossip, conjecture, insinuation, and innuendo he destroys her character and rehabilitates Shelley's--as he believes. [5]
On the previous evening at the Lodge, he had heard that a rumor of his duel had reached the Emperor and that it would be wiser for him to leave Petersburg. [2]
The messenger then confirmed the rumor, which had reached Egypt, that Bartja had ascended the throne of Cyrus and had been recognized by the greater part of the empire. [10]
The time passed, but neither moved, and the last noise in the house ceased, so that they heard each other breathe, and the vague, remote rumor of the city invaded the inner stillness. [8]
The people standing before the temple listened to the priest's chant, and interrupted it from time to time with ringing cries of wailing, for already a dark rumor of what was going on within had spread among the multitude. [10]
No one said anything definite, but the rumor of an attack spread through the squadron. [2]
By some accident a rumor of it reached him first through a colleague. [6]
His fame as a powerful speaker had preceded him, and exaggerated rumor of his wit--the worst forerunner of an orator--had reached the East. [7]

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