| 单词 | tittle-tattle |
| 例句 | There's a new man in town too, to set the ladies hearts all aflutter under their corsets, and to send waves of tittle-tattle reverberating back and forth between Lark Rise and Candleford. TV review: Arctic with Bruce Parry 2011-01-10T08:00:02Z Going to a festival is like being behind one huge closed door, where only the odd TV camera or tittle-tattle tales on Twatter™ and the like can expose your eccentricities. Tonight I'm a rock'n'roll scribe: From arse-rags to ostriches 2010-10-07T11:20:00Z Gibson seems to have been ubiquitous in the tittle-tattle press recently, and absolutely none of it is positive. Will Hangover 2 cameo give Mel Gibson more headaches? 2010-10-19T14:55:00Z Mr. McDonagh has a peerless gift for locating the mythologizing in small-town tittle-tattle, and the liturgical cadences in repeated phrases and actions. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Daniel Radcliffe as Cripple Billy 2013-06-27T17:08:49Z Meanwhile ladies in nice frocks exchange tittle-tattle, while the eel-like Mr Moray slithers around around trying – and succeeding – to wriggle under their corsets. TV review: The Boy Who Can't Forget; The Paradise 2012-09-25T21:10:01Z In the public perception this ephemeral tittle-tattle replaced her timeless talent. Russell Brand on Amy Winehouse: 'We have lost a beautiful, talented woman' 2011-07-24T22:14:47Z In fact, if you were from some stuck-up little tittle-tattle place like Philadelphia, the climate of forbearance could make you delirious. T Magazine: The Last Casbah 2011-05-20T14:00:57Z It was hard to take a news holiday, over Thanksgiving, what with the protests in Ferguson, the live updates, the streaming commentary, the instant video, the on-the-spot reporting, and the tittle-tattle of Twitter. Yesterday’s News 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z The author is contemptuous of Western historians who repeat this tittle-tattle without examining the evidence. Lost in translation 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z But does tittle-tattle really help attract more friends? Studied: Is Gossip Good for You? 2010-10-08T21:03:00Z "What the public are interested in, in the first sense, sells more newspapers: celebrity gossip, generally tittle-tattle," he said. Celebrities turn spotlight on press at UK inquiry 2011-11-21T10:50:10Z But such tittle-tattle was the lifeblood of Italian football and he was bullish, saying Lentini - living his boyhood dream and contracted to June 1995 - wasn't for sale. Lust, luck and a life less ordinary – the temptation of Gigi Lentini 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z President Putin recently dismissed the suggestion as "utter nonsense, drivel and politically-motivated tittle-tattle." Moldova: Russia threatens gas supply in Europe's poorest state 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z However, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said claims Russia is withholding gas to put pressure on Germany over Nord Stream 2 are "complete rubbish... and politically motivated tittle-tattle". Gas price rises: Russia not withholding supplies, says ambassador to UK 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z It's narrated by the mysterious Lady Whistledown, who writes regular newsletters full of tittle-tattle about the dating exploits of high society. Bridgerton: Everything you need to know about the Netflix drama 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Actual football looks unlikely for a little while so, in the meantime, lose yourself in the underworld of meaningless tittle-tattle: Premier League and British football shuts down until April due to coronavirus – live 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z His weekly, Next, which began as a print magazine but now has only a digital edition, writes a lot about celebrities and covers local tittle-tattle, but also provides unstinting support for the protests. A Hong Kong ‘Troublemaker’ With a Clean Conscience 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Gigi prefers playing card games with a friend of a family, a beet sugar baron who drops by to escape the latest tittle-tattle about his eligible bachelorship in the press. Wild, controversial and free: Colette, a life too big for film 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z “I’m not interested in all the tittle-tattle ... we all have to remember that he is a truly gifted player.” Premier League at 25: the best player – Eric Cantona | Paul Doyle 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the reports were "tittle-tattle". Brexit: UK 'will not enter into briefing war' with EC - BBC News 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Media tittle-tattle about President Trump’s telephone calls with foreign counterparts received new fuel last week after details leaked of a conversation with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Trump’s New Start With Russia May Prove Better Than Obama’s 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z “Let’s focus more on this and less on tittle-tattle gossip,” she said. Prince Andrew to press: End false stories about daughters 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z The company, Agon Limited, based in Russia, called the speculation “tittle-tattle and gossip.” Speculation Ends: Date and Venue Set for World Chess Championship in New York 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith said talk of a reshuffle was "Westminster tittle-tattle". Corbyn urged to 'step back' from Stop the War coalition - BBC News 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Ms Skinner described the letter's content as mainly "tittle-tattle" which was not published and which Mr Burrell himself put in a book a year later. Max Clifford fails to block Paul Burrell privacy claim - BBC News 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The tip-offs included "gossip" and "tittle-tattle" about Princes William and Harry, the Old Bailey heard. Sun journalists go on trial 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The gossip columns have a field day and can't believe their luck that such a rich seam of tittle-tattle is laid out on a platter for them. A comedy of terrors - in four acts 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z A lawyer representing Goldman, Robert Miles, called allegations about lavish entertainment “tittle-tattle” and the notion that a relationship of “trust and confidence” was breached “utterly unconvincing.” Libya's Sovereign Fund and Goldman Sachs Clash in Court 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z IN THE midst of an ongoing anti-corruption campaign in China it is often difficult to sort hard facts from the tittle-tattle about sensational new cases. Anchor away 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z The caipirinhas and cavier of the World Cup will make way for a daily diet of rumours, tittle-tattle and exasperation over the next few weeks. Which Premier League club has done the best transfer business so far? 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z White assiduously avoided clearing up the tittle-tattle, until eventually birth, marriage and divorce certificates were slightly churlishly unearthed by journalists. Jack White: 'I'm like Larry David, Alan Partridge and Chris Rock in one person' 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z When transfer windows were introduced, they were seen as potentially damaging for the red tops, for which transfer tittle-tattle was a staple. The madness that is Transfer Deadline Day 2014-01-30T09:44:09Z Why don't you get a real job, instead of one writing about made-up tittle-tattle? Football transfer rumours: Edinson Cavani to Chelsea? 2013-04-19T08:24:24Z With the Champions League quarter-finals kicking off tonight, the best sides in Spain, Germany, Italy and France have more important things on their mind than tedious transfer tittle-tattle – and so, predictably do their newspapers. Football transfer rumours: Michel Vorm to Barcelona 2013-04-02T08:37:02Z And she said the focus on the "tittle-tattle" would also put women off the idea of entering Parliament. Gillan attacks reshuffle coverage 2012-09-11T11:53:59Z This high-minded justification cloaked the commercial reality: readers gravitated to papers that published royal tittle-tattle. Prince Harry pictures: the Sun's ethics are set by the internet 2012-08-24T12:52:54Z To answer it takes us beyond tittle-tattle, but the reptiles mostly don't want to go there. North Korea is not just a laughing matter 2012-07-28T11:00:02Z Regurgitating tittle-tattle is the Mill's forte, confused readers, not arithmetic. Football transfer rumours: Daniel Agger to Barcelona? 2012-07-18T08:06:03Z Ms. Sultan Khan, the literary critic, said the magazine should concentrate on what Hello! does best — celebrity tittle-tattle and glowing photography. Memo From Pakistan: In a Troubled Country, Still Time for High Society 2012-06-25T02:48:04Z But she said some of the coverage of the reshuffle was "distorted" and focused on "tittle-tattle". Gillan attacks reshuffle coverage 2012-09-11T11:53:59Z Interestingly, what proved most popular were minutiae, tittle-tattle and familiar local issues... the glue of common interests that defined the local community. Local newspapers' crisis: how we created 'a digital town square' 2012-05-28T07:30:00Z Had he not jeered at Margu�rite, and endeavored to palliate his offense by repeating the absurd tittle-tattle to the man who had kicked him out of the house? The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z Ana is just herself, and there is no one like her, so why give yourself bad moments because of the tittle-tattle of a man like Costa?” Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z All the doctrines ever invented are mere tittle-tattle, only fit to amuse brainless ladies wanting in beauty, or minds stricken with positive sterility. The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports 2012-02-19T03:00:17.513Z What of this communication about Jean Boulot? surely it was idle tittle-tattle, born in the murky brain of a stupid old woman. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z It must be mischievous fudge about those cakes; a silly tittle-tattle of ignorant servants, to which Gabrielle, mopish and morbid, had given too willing an ear. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z They loved village tittle-tattle, and I had to join in with it whenever we met, because there was nothing else in the wide world I could talk to them about. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z He was a young unmarried minister, and the reputation of such in provincial Jewish congregations, overflowing with religion and tittle-tattle, is as a pretty unprotected orphan girl's. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z There'll be no need of a second crucifixion, or for more tittle-tattle about dying for sinners. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z I said nothing to this, nor did I answer anything to much other tittle-tattle. Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 2011-11-26T03:00:13.823Z In the first place, outside events were so terribly engrossing that local gossip and tittle-tattle for the time had lost their charm. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Such and much tittle-tattle was in that letter, all old news now.... The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Do not run in to them with every little tittle-tattle, but remember there is a nearer Friend always close. Left to Ourselves or, John Headley's Promise. 2011-10-05T02:00:17.183Z My Dear,—I learn that the vexatious tittle-tattle that occurred in your salon at Mayence has begun again; make people hold their tongues. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z Oh, it's all rot, I know, but how the deuce does such tittle-tattle get started? The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z He returned to his home in Coburg, exchanging, once for all, the momentous secrecies of European statecraft for the tittle-tattle of a provincial capital and the gossip of family life. Queen Victoria 2011-08-23T02:00:32.007Z But still he did not remain indifferent to a sincere feeling of love and respect and always distinguished it from idle and fulsome tittle-tattle. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z I even am sick of the woeful tittle-tattle of the newspapers, and never read it. Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z It was business as usual with a mixture of celebrity tittle-tattle, royal speculation and kiss-and-tell intrusiveness plus an abundance of so-what stories. News of the World contenders miss an open goal 2011-07-18T07:15:00Z People will forget what the News of the World did ... and that people's desire for tittle-tattle, regardless of how it is found, will remain. WRAPUP 10-Murdoch, savaged in parliament, pulls British TV bid 2011-07-14T01:43:52Z The tittle-tattle against Leigh Hunt repeated by Lord Macaulay is, on the face of it, unworthy of notice. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z Mr Bhosh's sparkling tittle-tattle completely achieved the Duchess's conquest, for he possessed that magical gift of the gab which inspired the tender passion without any connivance on his own part. A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... 2011-07-13T02:00:17.950Z The whole notion of press freedom is a smokescreen for selling newspapers with tittle-tattle, and you hide behind this.” The Lede: Celebrity Targets of Tabloid Cheer Its Demise 2011-07-11T15:34:45Z When the weather is this bad mechanics and engineers usually mooch about in their garages with their hands in their pockets, exchanging rueful smiles and tittle-tattle in this most gossipy of sports. Formula One's new rules on exhaust gases raise heat at Silverstone 2011-07-08T17:20:06Z But much of the meat and drink of newspapers, as Mulcaire admitted in his Guardian apologia, is "simply tittle-tattle." News of the World Is Shuttered, but Murdoch's Woes Aren't over Yet 2011-06-30T16:50:00Z As journalists, we feed off petty intrigue, palace gossip, daily tittle-tattle and even political pillow talk. Dumbing down? 2011-05-18T09:07:01Z Talk and tittle-tattle followed, and by devious ways it all reached the office at last, with additions. White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z Into the whirlpool of tittle-tattle Mrs. Mitchell wisely abstained from plunging. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z Fat purveyors of tittle-tattle with a cat on their knees, aldermen in wigs, burgomasters wearing a three-cornered hat and the whole thing set off by luminous ochre and cinnabar by the bucketful. The Mysterious Sketch 2011-05-03T02:00:14.907Z Amid a fierce competition for tittle-tattle, the News of the World will not be the only newspaper with guilty secrets. News of the World Is Shuttered, but Murdoch's Woes Aren't over Yet 2011-06-30T16:50:00Z Well," said Don Quixote, "I cannot be angry at thy ignorant tittle-tattle, because it proceeds from thy love towards me. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z You know I never allow you to repeat the tittle-tattle of the nursery. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 2011-04-26T02:00:25.180Z What was once village tittle-tattle is now recorded online forever. Lifting the lid 2011-04-24T23:35:01Z Don't go back to thy convent," said he when they were about to part company, "lest their tittle-tattle should be the ruin of thee. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z In a word, he wished to put an end to all the tittle-tattle about, and to have his full liberty. Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) 2011-04-01T02:00:37.710Z For all this worrying about who will win what and who may nor may not get relegated leaves very little room, or will, for the juice that normally gets this country moving – transfer tittle-tattle. Football transfer rumours: David de Gea to Manchester United? 2011-03-14T08:54:06Z Catch up with all the tit-bits and tittle-tattle over with the other work-shy cricket fans on the World Cup Daily blog. The Spin 2011-03-10T10:10:28Z His writings the very slip-slop of "commerage," the tittle-tattle of a Sunday paper, dressed up in the cant of Kentucky; the very titles, the contemptible affectation of unredeemed twaddle, 'Pencillings by the Way!' Nuts and Nutcrackers 2011-03-08T03:00:45.687Z A tittle-tattle of bribes and rivalries disgusts the intelligent student. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z "And you listened to their tittle-tattle, I suppose?" he said gravely. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z It's Bent and Aston Villa that the Mill blames for this tidal wave of high-speed tittle-tattle. Football transfer rumours: Thierry Henry to Leicester City? 2011-01-18T09:19:23Z The Mill isn't a claustrophobic purveyor of tittle-tattle, which is a good job as this morning's round-up of idle speculation has been somewhat delayed by a trapped-in-a-stairwell situation. Football transfer rumours: Luis Saurez and Scott Parker to Liverpool? 2011-01-14T09:31:20Z No harm will come to her: and thank goodness there will be no tittle-tattle to rouse Mr. Ionides's suspicions! Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z What the Italians called intelligence a German would call tittle-tattle, trickery, the spirit of opposition. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z The tittle-tattle went on pleasantly and quietly as yet, young Mistress Pundor not having arrived. The Yellow Rose 2011-01-12T03:00:29.407Z But the Mill isn't the sort of tittle-tattle purveyor to be concerned with the glitzy and glamorous end of the football world. Football transfer rumours ? Per Mertesacker to Arsenal? 2011-01-10T09:33:32Z Then they deplored the immorality of servants, a topic suggested by a theft which a valet-de-chambre had committed, and they began to indulge in tittle-tattle. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z Keep up to date with the latest football tittle-tattle with guardian.co.uk’s round-up of the day’s gossip Football Sport Travel Football transfer rumours: Maxi Rodríguez to Spurs or Liverpool? Football transfer rumours: David Beckham to Spurs? 2010-12-30T09:31:54Z This would occasion a good deal of bickering over the Indian official etiquette; and stories and tittle-tattle would go the rounds, enhanced, aggravated, until they reached the remotest sugar-factory in the district. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z Yet this key revelation was submerged in plate-loads of minor diplomatic tittle-tattle. The truth out of context is always less than the truth you need 2010-12-23T17:18:25Z Most papers are so busy sticking the boot into Liverpool that they've forgotten to print any transfer tittle-tattle at all. Football transfer rumours: Fernando Torres to Manchester City? 2010-09-24T08:17:00Z And here comes one now, wheezing under the weight of this meaty hunk of tittle-tattle, all the way from Amsterdam. Football transfer rumours: Lucas Leiva to Juventus? 2010-09-22T08:32:00Z Royal or celebrity tittle-tattle is clearly offside, legally as well as morally. Is the News of the World's phone-hacking really justified? Yes, sometimes 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Guardian Some days the Mill has a wonderful witty introduction, one that gently lowers you into a limpid pool of tittle-tattle with a friendly smile and a cheeky wink. Football transfer rumours: Shay Given to Fulham? 2010-08-17T08:33:00Z Still, if there's one thing to raise the Mill's spirits it's a juicy round of tittle-tattle and there's plenty of it about. Football transfer rumours: Arsenal in for ?16m Stephane Mbia? 2010-05-21T06:26:00Z It may have had several serious journalistic scoops in its lifetime, but much of its coverage involves Hollywood-style tittle-tattle. Scoop shock! 2010-04-12T09:12:00Z All this fluff, this tittle-tattle, this pointless detail about SamCam's wardrobe and SarBro's shoes is an embodiment of the idea that a woman is accoutrement of the man she marries, his trophy, his prize. Are we choosing a Prime Minister ? or a primate? 2010-04-10T23:06:00Z The Terry tittle-tattle at the office water cooler is strong stuff. 2010-02-02T13:21:00Z I write you this tittle-tattle, my dear, in confidence. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams Besides his own interests, the German had little to occupy him but the tittle-tattle of the day concerning family events and any remarkable news. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. If only that confounded set of fools hadn't started their silly tittle-tattle! An Engagement of Convenience A Novel There was the usual result of tittle-tattle, especially among the idlest and most numerous members of the community. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Silas was not socially inclined; he took no part in the gossip and tittle-tattle that flowed up and down the veranda. Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction Half the mischief in life comes out of tittle-tattle.” Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt She was often away from Court, feigning to prefer the rural delights of Hever to the splendours of Greenwich or Richmond, or offended at the significant tittle-tattle about herself and the King. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History You can hardly believe how such tittle-tattle annoys us. Above the Battle That would secure me against further annoyances and tittle-tattle. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second The tittle-tattle of the town ran in a different direction when some one discovered that the Racking Roan was tied every day to the rack behind the court-house. Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction Everything interested him: he weighed everything in his mind; no silly advice, no empty tittle-tattle, was ever dismissed by him without its due meed of consideration. The Heart of a Woman What fools women were to listen to every Old Wife who came along with idle tittle-tattle seeking recruits for the great Army of the Misunderstood! The Case and Exceptions Stories of Counsel and Clients Pope, by turning "my gossip" into "a gossip," has done away with the special relationship, and employed the word in its modern sense of a lover of tittle-tattle. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Willow herb, mint, pale speedwell and rattle Water hemlock and sundew—to the wind's tittle-tattle They nodded, dreamed, swayed in jocund delight, In beauty and sweetness arrayed, still and bright. Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems He detested small-talk and tittle-tattle, and I was the only girl he ever went with. Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction And tittle-tattle, senseless talk, inane remarks, were wafted on the grimy wings of the fog. The Heart of a Woman The Bureau is a regular old woman for tittle-tattle. The Bartlett Mystery Any of the servants coming along had only to step inside and listen behind the screen, and there would have been a fine tittle-tattle among them—aye, and it wouldn't have stopped there. Leonore Stubbs His writings the very slip-slop of “commerage,” the tittle-tattle of a Sunday paper, dressed up in the cant of Kentucky; the very titles, the contemptible affectation of unredeemed twaddle, ‘Pencillings by the Way!’ Nuts and Nutcrackers He cared not a jot for the tittle-tattle of the hotel. The Silent Barrier I suppose you realize, George, that I am keeping back a good deal of the tittle-tattle which reached me during your absence. Cynthia's Chauffeur I wonder at their present patience and perseverance, and can never sufficiently admire the contexture of that brain which can weave with unwearied toil such immense webs of idle tittle-tattle, and gossipping nonsense. Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754) A rumour somehow got abroad and was circulated in the tittle-tattle newspapers of the time, that at the instance of some fair lady he had shaved off these martial appendages. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Fearing their tittle-tattle, Lounsbury curbed his impatience to ask about the shack. The Plow-Woman As to scandal and tittle-tattle, none of it reached the seclusion of her convent-home, or was allowed to sully her fair mind. Brooke's Daughter A Novel Conrad will never be coerced into offering his readers sugar-coated tittle-tattle. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The cause, when inquired into, proves to be tittle-tattle on both sides.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Life in provincial towns in Scotland in those days was simply frittered away in the tittle-tattle of cross and causeway, and the insipid talk of taverns. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series They fling you the fine gold of their own lives, and wallow in the tittle-tattle of lady-novelists and Reynolds’s. An Ocean Tramp Having read these efforts to an admiring circle, he betakes himself with infinite zest to the discussion of aesthetic tittle-tattle over a cup of tea and a toasted bun. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 The domestic affairs of the prophet would have become the subject of a large amount of tittle-tattle, and the idea would have been remembered only to give greater point to the ridicule. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 But probably there was much tittle-tattle; and a disagreeable, jealous, or scheming inmate must have been able to stir up a good deal of strife in a society living at such close quarters. The Thread of Gold Lady Dundrum had taken her to some function there ... and she was eager for the tittle-tattle of the Court. Changing Winds A Novel You see here my life—barmaid society, ship’s tittle-tattle, unending rough toil. An Ocean Tramp We have assemblies, where we tittle-tattle and gossip. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance Wherever I went I heard nothing but malicious remarks, slurring accusations and tittle-tattle. Melomaniacs But I feel as if the relationship between Cecilia and myself were being profaned by tittle-tattle of that kind. The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays Not very much is said about her in any of the authentic accounts, and traditional tittle-tattle may be neglected. Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series She takes no interest in anything beyond the tittle-tattle of the county. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real Hej, child! you must not take any notice of what folks say—it is only tittle-tattle. A Bride of the Plains How much has she not owed of late to the tittle-tattle of her gillflirt sister Thalia? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 His personal sorrow, therefore, was not degraded by any foolish additional worry about the tittle-tattle of this, that, or the other personage. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange I inquired rather angrily, for I hated all the tittle-tattle of that little circle of gossips who dawdle over the tea-cups of Redcliffe Square and its neighbourhood. The Seven Secrets Being uneducated, and a large proportion unable to read, their chief intellectual amusement consists in tittle-tattle and gossip. The Toilers of the Field Had he been in Hampton a little longer, he would have added: gossip and tittle-tattle, small-mindedness and silly vanity. In Her Own Right To such a woman, with her healthy, orderly mind, the chaotic environment with its petty cares and dirty tittle-tattle, in which we lived, was very painful. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories He longed to spare her all the low tittle-tattle of her neighbours, the coarse jests of the hired men among themselves, and the eternal suspicions of the women. The Wind Before the Dawn The tittle-tattle of the gossips, the social intrigues of the dowager, are adopted as frankly as the self-devotion of a Miss Nightingale. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) She was a gossiping sort of body, and she wanted the child to recount to her all the tittle-tattle she knew about Glendower. The Children of Wilton Chase What did all this tittle-tattle about a great man prove anyhow except his greatness? Virginia It was only at a later period that it was the cause of unkind tittle-tattle. Tongues of Conscience Why, have you been listening to tittle-tattle as well as studying newspaper paragraphs! The Big Drum A Comedy in Four Acts Self-importance, jealousy, tittle-tattle are the order of the day. Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert Max, it was pitiful to listen to the tittle-tattle that was read. The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour If the girl had only repeated some tittle-tattle I should have taken no notice of course, but as it was, I felt bound to let you know.” The French Prisoners of Norman Cross A Tale His master often rewarded him for particularly choice morsels of loose tittle-tattle. Under the Rose There are some who seem to think that a man must rather enjoy hearing all the low tittle-tattle of envious backbiters. Julian Home Why had she told her son that she was to be up in London, thus producing conversation and tittle-tattle which made deceit on his part absolutely necessary? Orley Farm View larger image or Wardens of Reputationsto suppress scandal View larger image and tittle-tattle?. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914 Ah, I see well that what has made him so notorious was only idle tittle-tattle. King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth Every nice piece of gossip stops at their door, and they fatten and luxuriate in the endless round of the great world of tittle-tattle. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony Now the New England people, especially Bostonians, are inordinately given to knowing everything about everybody, and to “tittle-tattle,” while the Southerners are comparatively free from it and very incurious. Memoirs You speak to me about Etretat, and about the people who indulged in "tittle-tattle" along the beach of that delightful watering-place. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories Now I have given you the true account of all, so that you can safely put down all slanderers’ gossip and tittle-tattle on the subject. Working in the Shade Lowly Sowing brings Glorious Reaping He had wits enough to tell him by this time that in all this mysterious blundering talk of mine there was after all something more serious than commonplace tittle-tattle. My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life I know them better than you: they are strongholds of vanity, folly, tittle-tattle, and all the meanest vices of your sex. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 It was his intention to defer his visit to the bedroom in the left wing until the household had retired, so as to be free from the curious speculations and tittle-tattle of the servants. The Hand in the Dark At any rate, I remember there was a great deal of tittle-tattle at the time to the effect that she manoeuvred desperately hard to bring about the engagement. The Shrieking Pit Have you reflected that you will make yourself a nine-days' wonder, a subject for tittle-tattle with all the gossip-mongers of Europe? The Lady Paramount At length the point of the interview began to poke its horns out of this shell of tittle-tattle. Sketches "You would have Albany saying that you believe its tittle-tattle," she argued; and he deferred for the hundredth time to her superior perception of the mental processes of the social world. The Henchman After I had adjusted my waistband, again we spoke some tittle-tattle of the hour before I arose and, with a courteous salaam, took my departure. Tales of Destiny Be discreet as to repeating any local tittle-tattle you may possibly overhear. The Gourmet's Guide to Europe My dear Martha, in a few days they and their tittle-tattle will pass out of my existence, admitting that they have ever entered it. Parrot & Co. If we tried to be exact in saying Lincoln, or Lincoln's Cabinet, or the North did this or that, it would be necessary to thresh out many bushels of tittle-tattle. Abraham Lincoln None of the wishy-washy tittle-tattle interested me, in fact. Hearts and Masks She resented the conduct of the passengers in making her the subject of their tittle-tattle with a bitterness she had never felt before. In the Roaring Fifties See a Frenchman—how light and buoyant he trips into a drawing-room, fresh from the satisfactory scrutiny of the looking-glass, with all the news, and jokes, and tittle-tattle of the day, in full bloom! Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour That Selwyn was a gossip, no one knew better than himself, and he has incurred the censure of Sir George Trevelyan for repeating tittle-tattle, as he calls it, about Fox and his gambling. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life There's no use mincing matters between us, because you know as well as I do who is at the bottom of all this tittle-tattle. Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life "I am going to leave you, and if you will allow me, madame, I will occasionally come here and tell you all the outside tittle-tattle." His Excellency the Minister The General Here you see the effect of all this tittle-tattle. The Stepmother, A Drama in Five Acts "But if the tittle-tattle that must be going the rounds should come to his ears—" "If the truth should come to his ears," she replied tranquilly, "it would make no difference." Success A Novel She was charming and gracious to everyone—even to Charles Pixley, the while he swamped her with inane tittle-tattle, and higher proof of grace than that it would be difficult to imagine. Pearl of Pearl Island There is an incessant manipulation of neighbours' gossip and play-box tittle-tattle, all wrapped up in perfidious good taste to mask their flavour and smell. The Cathedral All the tittle-tattle of the world pours into those ears like vinegar through a funnel. Around The Tea-Table Looking down the table I told myself that it must be the very home of idle gossip and the hot-bed of tittle-tattle. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill To CLATTER, v. a. to tell tales; to tittle-tattle. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. This, the high office of tittle-tattle, is what we have in our eye. Walking-Stick Papers She had conceived a lively friendship for Helene, and was charmed with the kindly manner in which so sedate and lovely a woman would listen for hours to her tittle-tattle. A Love Episode After she tired of providing more realistic details of the night's uproar, Caleb deliberately tapped another vintage of tittle-tattle in hope of further information leaking out. Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned And when my tittle-tattle came to the ears of his acquaintance, he would drop his eyes in confusion and shake his little finger. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories Nor did he spare, in this wide-ranging book, to bring in other favorite matters of his, the hobereau—or squireen—aristocracy, the tittle-tattle of the country town and so forth. Lost Illusions Let us take no notice of the repeated tittle-tattle. The King's Cup-Bearer A system of espionage, whisperings, backbitings, and miserable tittle-tattle, sometimes of the most slanderous or the most ridiculous kind, was set going all over Oxford. The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 Well I know the tittle-tattle Of the caustic muleteer, And the Simla seismic rattle Is familiar to my ear. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919. Much that he gives us in his "General History of the Stage" is only gossip, yet what is there more fascinating than tittle-tattle about players? The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield And after the fine stories came the little legends—things about Charlotte when she was a governess herself at Mrs. Sidgwick's, and the tittle-tattle of the parish. The Three Brontës But this good lady wants to see men chatting together upon the Pelagian heresy— to hear, in the afternoon, the theological rumours of the day—and to glean polemical tittle-tattle at a tea-table rout. Famous Reviews Land!" he says, "it's like old times to hear all this tittle-tattle, and does me good. Tom Sawyer, Detective Instead, there will be columns of denunciation and tittle-tattle in every newspaper—quite as if you, a baronet's daughter, had run away with a footman. The Certain Hour The attentions of a certain person can hardly be among the tittle-tattle of Highbury yet. Emma George Sand was quite indifferent about all the great events of Parisian life, about social tittle-tattle and Boulevard gossip. George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings But she died eighteen years ago, and—' 'Instead of telling me all this tittle-tattle it would be much better if you did as I asked you, Edith, and fetched me the cigarettes. Love's Shadow As if she didn't know a great deal more of the world than her stupid sisters did, who never read a book or thought of anything beyond the tittle-tattle of their few local friends. The Case of Richard Meynell Was it not your tittle-tattle, in which I believe you belyed the poor fellow, which incensed me against him? Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 What I do detest is her fondness for tittle-tattle! Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books I have had my experience of gossip and tittle-tattle. Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales I was very young at this time, but I already had a certain disdain for tittle-tattle. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt Sir Amyas is certainly the prettiest behaved physician breathing, with the sweetest assortment of tittle-tattle, with an inexhaustible fund of anecdotes and compliments for the great, and an intimate acquaintance with the fair and fashionable. Tales and Novels — Volume 07 The good woman, who acted as guide to the Falls could not hold her tongue for a single moment, and her loud inharmonious tittle-tattle put us in ill-humour for the rest of the day. Holidays in Eastern France He had raked together, after the example of Scioppius against Scaliger, all the tittle-tattle which the English exiles had to retail about Milton and his antecedents. Milton You speak to me about Etretat, and about the people who indulge in "tittle-tattle" along the beach of that delightful watering-place. Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales Engagements, marriages, acceptances, excuses, compliments, tittle-tattle, personalities—a rolling flood of chatter and gossip. Under the Skylights I ordered that she should have food and shelter, and she became the jest of our negroes, and formed the subject of the scandal and tittle-tattle of the old fools in our little town. The Virginians All scandal and gossip, all the petty tittle-tattle was thrown into the background, another significance had been detected. The Possessed (The Devils) The Hague tittle-tattle about Morus's love-affairs is set forth in the pomp of Milton's loftiest Latin. Milton As you remarked to me, my dear Aunt, tittle-tattle is the mark of petty individuals and petty minds. Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales He abhorred gossip and spreading of tittle-tattle; avoided speaking before servants, or any one who would retail what was said. Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 You don't suppose that I believe all the tittle-tattle and scandal which one cannot help hearing in town? The Virginians He was very pious and knew better than any one all the tittle-tattle of the parish. Jean-Christophe Journey's End "And now there's all this wretched tittle-tattle about you!" chafed Lady Susan. The Vision of Desire I have heard nothing but malicious tittle-tattle, a falsehood beneath contempt, set afloat by some enemy of Merton's. Fan : the story of a young girl's life She vowed and declared that we must live at Fairoaks; that Clavering, with all its tittle-tattle and stupid inhabitants, was better than this wicked London. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family I am not here to play the Mentor to you, or to carry about servants' tittle-tattle. The Virginians You know that those great newsmongers are the curse of provincial towns, and that they have no greater anxiety than to spread, everywhere abroad all the tittle-tattle they pick up. The Countess of Escarbagnas "The tittle-tattle in these twopenny-halfpenny villages is almost past believing!" he exclaimed angrily. The Vision of Desire I am as indifferent to ordinary tittle-tattle as a rhinoceros. The Eustace Diamonds Any tittle-tattle was admitted, and postmen and servants were allowed to swear as to the directions on unproduced documents alleged to have been addressed to me. Prisoner for Blasphemy Anything more soothing to tired nerves than the tittle-tattle of these Wendlebury old ladies it is impossible to imagine. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 29, 1917 Lesbia could nowhere be better off than on the yacht, where she was away from the gossip and tittle-tattle of the town. Phantom Fortune, a Novel But what is all this tittle-tattle which I hear about appointments which you keep with the daughter of the Lepailleurs? Fruitfulness "And pray, is there no tittle-tattle, no scandal, no commenting on one's neighbours, in other civilized nations besides this?" Home as Found "I have borne with you patiently because of the acquaintance of years, but I shall be glad if this tittle-tattle of malice and ignorance now ceases," she said proudly. The Postmaster's Daughter I know not what, only this I know: that there are in all towns certain folk who, by means of magic or meddling, always find out everything about everybody, and then tittle-tattle thereof. Algonquin Legends of New England On the whole, the probability is, that Murphy's words were only the careless repetition of local tittle-tattle, of much of which, as Captain Booth says pertinently in Amelia, "the only basis is lying." Fielding Perhaps she would have treated the matter as mere idle tittle-tattle, if she had not already regretted that she herself had no second child. Fruitfulness Pepys and Burnet repeat to us the tittle-tattle of the circles in which they moved, and the various estimates which were made as to the effect of the impending disclosure upon the Chancellor's power. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 Nightingale, who, in many other instances, was rather too effeminate in his disposition, had a pretty strong inclination to tittle-tattle. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Take care on your part, Friar Ange," replied the philosopher, "and as you're afraid of the devil, don't offend him too much and do not excite him against you by inconsiderate tittle-tattle. The Queen Pedauque Yes, you are shut out by your own tittle-tattle. The Blunderer The conscious probity of the honest Doctor enabled him to despise this sort of tittle-tattle, though the secret knowledge of its existence could not be agreeable to him. The Surgeon's Daughter Pepys, repeating the gossip of the day, and the tittle-tattle of the back stairs, tells us how "they have cast my Lord Chancellor on his back past ever getting up again." Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 Thenceforth he lived amidst ceaseless tittle-tattle, acquainted with every little scandal in the neighbourhood, his head buzzing with the incessant yelping around him. The Fat and the Thin "Thenceforth he lived amidst ceaseless tittle-tattle, acquainted with every little scandal in the neighbourhood." A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; "I suppose there has been some tittle-tattle—I can read it in your face—but there's not a word of truth in it, not a word, I assure you." Love, the Fiddler Its arabesque pattern conveys a most charming content; and there is a dewy freshness, a joy in life, that puts to flight much of the morbid tittle-tattle about Chopin's sickly soul. Chopin : the Man and His Music Had we had Gazettes and Morning Posts in those days, would they have been filled with such tittle-tattle after the battle of Agincourt, or in the more resembling weeks after the battle of Naseby? The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Mrs. Haldene pretended to demur, but the reporters found her an inexhaustible mine of tittle-tattle. Half a Rogue When he first began to practise among the people of Warehold, and some garrulous old dame would seek to enrich his visit by tittle-tattle about her neighbors, she had never tried it a second time. Tides of Barnegat Familiar with the tittle-tattle and love tales of those distant lands he asked: "If the old marine god, with the long white beard, still pursued this mischievous naiad with his ridiculous love?" Life of Chopin Her own relatives were quite as much against the match as Balzac's, she reminded him, while narrating all the malicious tittle-tattle that mutual acquaintances were constantly telling her. Balzac He was aware of all this tittle-tattle, and laughed at it. The Widow Lerouge So they were sore exercised and confusion befel with much tittle-tattle of folk; each one said his own say nor were they guided by any to what they should do. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 The Wali feigned not to believe a word of this story, but he summoned the watchmen of the quarter one night and questioned them of this tittle-tattle. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] Every idle tittle-tattle that went about, Jack was always suspected for the author of it. History of John Bull Oh, nothing in particular, only that it is impossible to show one's nose in this hateful town without knocking against some vulgarity, stupidity, tittle-tattle, or some horrible injustice. Virgin Soil For months Victoria, that old German Frau, delayed me—because of some tittle-tattle.... Soul of a Bishop Ill-natured tittle-tattle, which should have been instantly nipped in the bud, had been allowed to assume disgraceful proportions; and the Throne itself had become involved in the personal malignities of the palace. Queen Victoria |
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