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"Tittle-tattle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have turned into dead leaves according to custom; and the curiosities, upon which he set so extravagant a price, savour more of Wardour Street than of the genuine mediaeval artists. Nay, there are scoffers, though I am not of them, who think that the tittle-tattle which Miss Austen gathered at the country-houses of our grandfathers is worth more than the showy but rather flimsy eloquence of the 'Ariosto of the North.' Scott endeavoured at least, if with indifferent success, to invest his scenes ...
— Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) • Leslie Stephen |
Words linked to "Tittle-tattle" : verbalize, verbalise, blether, palaver, gabble, schmoose, utter, confabulation, talk, tattle, prattle, confab, causerie, gossip, chin wagging, clack, maunder, chin-wagging, gabfest, blabber, smatter, gab, chat, babble, mouth, twaddle, chit-chat, blab, chin-wag, chitchat, blather, small talk |
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