"Gossipy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... most gossipy and least critical of all writers on primitive man, Bonwick, declares (97), in describing ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck
... would go over all her treasures. Then, in a few days the gossipy and astounded neighbors would behold Helen and Lily, dressed, each, in a gown of white brocaded satin, with a dinner gown of black velvet, and for Sunday, old point lace, with petticoats of finest hand-made Irish linen and silk stockings—all ...
— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore
... OF NEW YORK.—Being personal incidents, interesting sketches, bits of biography, and gossipy events in the life of nearly every leading merchant in New York City. Three series ...
— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
... the long hotel piazza, with the gossipy groups of wooden chairs standing vacant in the early afternoon; for the grown-up people are dallying with the ultimate nuts and raisins of their mid-day dinner. A villainous clatter of innumerable little vegetable-dishes comes from the open windows of the pantry as the boy ...
— Little Rivers - A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness • Henry van Dyke
... writings, but in his answers to criticism, quickly turned the public dislike into aggressive hatred. In 1894 a book appeared, "The Green Carnation," which was a sort of photograph of Oscar as a talker and a caricature of his thought. The gossipy story had a surprising success, altogether beyond its merits, which simply testified to the intense interest the suspicion of extraordinary viciousness has for common minds. Oscar's genius was not given in the book at all, but his humour was indicated and a malevolent ...
— Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris
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