| 单词 | busybody |
| 例句 | As all this unfolded, busybody that I am, I kept tabs, eavesdropped, observed. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “On the side, Mom’s a private investigator. That’s what she calls it. I call it a professional snoop. My grandmother called it being a busybody. Mom spies on men who are—” She glanced at Finn. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Blessedly, their platters of food appeared, borne by a cortege of waiters, directed by the busybody maître d'. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Don’t know the manners of good society, eh?” he says to the character of the busybody, Mrs. Mountchessington, who has insulted him before exiting the stage. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Especially if someone is in busybody mode. I’m lookin’ at you, Red.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Bongo says I’m a busybody, and I suppose she has a point. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She did not want to seem like a busybody. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z By the time Xan hobbled into the widow woman’s garden, half the town was already there, setting up tables and tents, with legions upon legions of busybodies preparing themselves to fuss over the old woman. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z ‘And would spoil my joke. You are an interfering old busybody,’ laughed Bilbo, ‘but I expect you know best, as usual.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Quisqueya is a busybody, but it’s only because she’s so insecure. She doesn’t know how to connect with people. Don’t let her put you off.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The saying that people who have nothing to do become busybodies is not the only truth. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the fact that he was now our closest living relative, he was the last person I wanted to see—a busybody who had once proved to me he was not to be trusted. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z She’d always said I was a busybody, not to mention an optimist. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The Plot: You may have already seen or heard about this portrait of a prickly old busybody still in mourning for his wife. A Quick Guide to the Foreign-Language Oscar Nominees 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z In standard thriller fare, we readers would then follow police detectives as they comb the heather, interrogating hermits, village busybodies and the girl’s school friends. What happens to a tranquil British town when a 13-year-old girl goes missing 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z There are a busybody Venezuelan with two all-American sons and a fugitive unnerved by the horrors of Guatemala’s civil war. ‘The Book of Unknown Americans,’ by Cristina Henríquez The song about a mother telling a group of busybodies to mind their own business was witty and feisty and became a No. 1 country and pop hit. Country singer Tom T. Hall dies; wrote ‘Harper Valley PTA’ 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Will their busybody advice result in a happy ending or a tragic parting? ‘The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend’ review 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z As with “Gen X” or “soccer mom,” “millennial” is a demographic term that originated with media and marketing busybodies interested in consolidating identities that they can then target. Why There’s No ‘Millennial’ Novel 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z And Hermann Prey, a distinguished veteran, as Beckmesser, the town busybody. Taking Stock of James Levine’s Tarnished Legacy 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z These ghosts can be nosy and lubricious, as in George Saunders’s “Lincoln in the Bardo,” which followed a group of spectral busybodies in purgatory, observing the arrival of Abraham Lincoln’s newly deceased young son. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Anti-choice activists, being panty-sniffing busybodies at heart, have long been extremely interested in gathering as much personal information as they can about women who are seeking abortion. Anti-choice tech stalking: Activists are using GPS to track women entering Planned Parenthood 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z During the first season of , the aristocratic Crawley family and their busybody servants endured a succession crisis and the death of a Turkish houseguest. Downton Abbey Returns to America: Writer Julian Fellowes Tells All 2012-01-06T09:59:10Z Once popular for girls born in the 1960s, it then became a pseudonym for a middle-aged busybody with a blond choppy bob who asks to speak to the manager. A Brief History of ‘Karen’ 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z For all that she was in demand in later years to play harridans and busybodies, she never resorted to caricature. Pat Keen obituary 2013-03-21T13:38:50Z Paul said he finds it "troubling, this busybody nature that you want to come into my house – my bedroom, my bathroom…" But a woman's womb, hey, that's up for grabs. Rand Paul is pro-choice for toilets 2011-03-11T19:01:00Z As for the governors, they happened to be suffering a periodic urge to cease being a bunch of dim nobodies and turn themselves into dim busybodies. Alasdair Milne obituary 2013-01-09T19:13:47Z We have a system of internships which reinforces privilege, and, in Prince Charles, a busybody and crank who is wholly unsuited to be head of state, but will be because he is his mother's son. Is nepotism ever acceptable? 2011-04-09T23:05:55Z Gower is not only a poet but a tireless busybody who moves about London trading coins for scraps of information; he’s a medieval private eye and narrates much of the novel. ‘The Invention of Fire’ is a thrillingly written 14th-century murder mystery 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z By the end of the week, we were all busybodies in one another’s lives. On Small Ship, Ocean Life (and Other Passengers) Are Up Close 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z But even if it isn’t, you want privacy to protect yourself from prying eyes, whether those of disapproving busybodies or larcenous teen night-stalkers. Maybe this will inspire you to get your hands dirty: 6 steps to growing your own backyard pot plant 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Burley Cross in picture-postcard west Yorkshire is the exception and the novel, with its cast of well-to-do busybodies, her most light-hearted work to date. A life in writing: Nicola Barker 2010-04-30T23:13:00Z He’s mostly right, but the feds and other busybodies keep getting in the way. ‘The Highwaymen’ Review: Grumpy Old Men on the Trail of Glamorous Killers 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z His friends, he admits, do sometimes call her a “yenta,” the Yiddish word for busybody. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the basketball icon, reinvented as culture vulture 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z If there ever was an example of busybody liberals sticking their nose in other people's business to save the world it's the move to get rid of tipping. Is New York Too Expensive for Restaurateurs? We Do the Math 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z So is her role as the casserole-wielding busybody neighbor in the final season of “Dead to Me,” arriving on Netflix on Nov. 17. Suzy Nakamura Informs Herself With ‘The Dollop,’ Sister Wendy and Her Mother’s Diary 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z With the exceptions of Marquez, who plays Clytemnestra like a gathering storm, and Jim Ortlieb, who turns the old servant into an alarmed busybody, the company isn’t up to the challenge. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Call me an old busybody if you like, but I would be failing in my duty if I didn't warn you there's something terrible going on with the climate. Digested read: Harmony by HRH The Prince of Wales 2010-10-18T20:00:00Z And both girls use Carroll’s “bandersnatch” as a label for “do-gooding government busybodies” who, given Mom’s tendency to run away from home, might try to seize them. Books of The Times: ‘The Silver Star,’ a Novel by Jeannette Walls 2013-05-29T20:54:36Z He found an old house in a small town full of busybodies and expects to live peacefully there. Tana French’s Irish Western Features a Retired Lawman and a Missing Boy 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z She disarmed busybodies and browbeaters with preternatural self-confidence and an innate survival instinct that could turn ferocious. Jackie Shane, a Transgender Soul Pioneer, Re-emerges After Four Decades 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z IT began with parakeets, the brash, busybody rose-ringed parakeets of Delhi, with their lipstick red beaks and their irrepressible chatter, gossiping in the crevices of 15th-century tombs. India, Through a Birder?s Eyes 2011-01-14T20:30:41Z Planning disagreements, middle-aged busybodies, local politics: this is the stuff of a truly British murder mystery. Tonight's TV highlights: Michel Roux's Service 2011-01-12T00:05:01Z “I get the busybody thing from my mother,” he said. Is America Ready for the Mind of Terence Nance? 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Its movie analogue is, of course, the scene in which the prim little town busybody Felicia begins uncontrollably vomiting hundreds of the very cherry stones the witches are discarding at a soiree across town. Simon Cowell and the Witches of Eastwick 2010-07-15T18:59:00Z Oddly for such a subtle writer, George paints this woman as a cartoonish yenta — a busybody — whose character never rings true. 'Believing the Lie': a new Inspector Lynley mystery 2012-01-08T04:03:03Z Natalie, aspiring local newscaster and general busybody, cracked open my bedroom door and peered inside at me. Yoga, spinning and a murder: My strange months at Lululemon 2013-12-31T12:47:00Z With fewer opportunities even in physical work spaces to idly chatter, what’s happening to our office busybodies? Office Gossip Lives! 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z “I got to know all the top people. I was never intimidated, and I was always a busybody,” he said. Seth Rudetsky, Broadway’s Go-To Guy, Flirts With ‘Disaster!’ 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Martins wonderfully captures the busy town life and the humor of the character roles: the bumbling Marquis, the old crone who turns into the fairy godmother, the blustering father and busybody mother. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z Although Yenta was the name of the matchmaker in “Fiddler on the Roof,” it actually means “busybody” or “gossip.” Letters to the Editor 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z She refuses to decamp to the sidelines, but she also resists acting out stereotypes; she appears as neither a doting naïf nor a needling busybody. The Sublime Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Each is utterly self-absorbed, none more so than a busybody named Duncan Yeardon who lives in a nearby building. Books of The Times: Two Refreshing Splashes of Summertime Homicide 2011-07-03T21:37:35Z Up until then, the plot has broadly concerned the efforts of her busybody family and friends to find a husband for her. Ready to Try an Ozu Film? Watch These Two Family Tales. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z He finds an old house in a small town full of busybodies and expects to live peacefully there. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Watching this Tony-winning Broadway vet soak up the pleasures of playing the New York busybody — first dreamed up by Thornton Wilder in “The Matchmaker” — is touching. Review | Betty Buckley joins the ‘Hello, Dolly’ parade. And the pleasure of it doesn’t pass us by. 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z They busybody their neighbors and ministers, whether they intend to or not. In Praise of Barbara Pym 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z The busybodies are still there, lecturing and occasionally yelling, somehow no more helpful than before, even in this golden opportunity for giving advice. Nextdoor Pivots to Neighborliness 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Noted busybody Hope doesn't want to socialize as much. In defense of Hope: Why the so-called worst character on “Virgin River” is actually the best 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z They share these spaces with their busybody landlords, who are always a hovering presence. In Need of a Film About Romantic Possibility? Try ‘In the Mood for Love’ 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Five singers portrayed the 30 characters, including most of those who appear in Wagner’s original and a few additions, like some rangers and busybodies. Review: ‘Das Barbecü’ Is Wagner’s ‘Ring’ With a Side of Brisket 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z That is: violent murders in rural locales solved by busybodies in wide-fitting shoes. Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis ? the television shows that won't die 2011-08-12T23:11:04Z The director Tom Hooper can be a maddening busybody behind the camera, but this is one number in which he doesn’t try to upstage his performers. Movie Review: ‘Les Misérables’ Stars Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman 2012-12-24T22:48:43Z Lawn or no, he happily takes on the preoccupied busybodies who invade his slacker realm. Perspective | These TV shows have figured out Gen X’s greatest gift to society: Grouchiness 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z A doubleheader starring Flavia de Luce, the most intrepid and charming adolescent chemist/detective/busybody in all of rural, post-World War II England. Tops in crime fiction: Best mysteries of 2011 2011-12-07T23:39:04Z To me, a former small-town kid, it’s a tragedy, about a man whose dreams are beaten down by his needy, parochial, busybody neighbors. Generation X-Mas: The Rise of A Christmas Story 2011-12-24T14:59:14Z With predictable complements of heartsick teenagers, busybody servants and oppressive guardians, they could easily fall into rote. Music Review: Rossini Double Bill by Julliard Opera at Lincoln Center 2012-02-05T22:34:44Z I waded through several trailers and busybody intros, then found it almost hidden in a reel of other, far-lesser deleted scenes. Rambo: The greatest deleted scene ever 2010-08-14T18:01:00Z I cannot believe you advised this busybody to attempt to speak to the child. Perspective | Ask Amy: The kids are upset by Mom’s involvement with ‘stepson’ 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z There's a "busybody flute, a wise viola, and the masculine, workmanlike bassoon, trombone and upright bass"; there's a piano, too, an "agitator", with its electronic and sampled sounds. Muhly: I Drink the Air Before Me 2010-09-30T21:15:00Z The East End's most famous pug was typically found clutched to Ethel's bosom as the square's resident busybody did her rounds. Six to watch ... TV dogs 2011-04-06T12:58:00Z These are the town gossips as Greek chorus, yet while they’re funny, sort of, there’s also something oppressive about these busybodies. Movie Review: ?Bernie? With Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine 2012-04-26T21:53:23Z After failing to find a suspect at home, await approach from neighbouring cardiganed busybody. Missing a beat 2010-08-26T19:59:00Z Sophie must face down the busybodies at the fort who are appalled at her desire to understand the physiology of her pregnancy and her “unwholesome, even wicked” ambition to be a photographer. ‘To the Bright Edge of the World’: A terrific tale of Alaskan adventure 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z If there ever was an example of busybody liberals sticking their nose in other people's business to save the world it's the move to get rid... Is New York Too Expensive for Restaurateurs? We Do the Math 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Apparently, other parents decided they didn't want these busybodies telling them how to educate or raise their kids so they ran against them and won. Media must stop overcorrecting for too much Trump exposure: The public needs a closer look at crazy 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Then this busybody guy stepped forward out of nowhere and shook his head sadly at the large dent on the side of my car. L.A. Affairs: I was focused on work. I didn’t realize he was flirting with me 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z In today’s fraught political environment, the prospect is high that stock market investments would be monitored and questioned by congressional busybodies. Column: Social Security is perfectly healthy, but there's one easy way to improve it 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z This is why Republicans have landed on this strategy of simply giving a single busybody total veto power over a school curriculum or library. "They banned Dolly": Republicans want the dumbest parent at the school to control the curriculum 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z In counterpoint to Brosnahan’s well-drawn, insecure Iris, chafing at Sidney’s overbearing protectiveness, Silverman superbly embodies the eldest sister, a snooty Upper East Side busybody who looks down on Black and Jewish people. Review | Oscar Isaac, Rachel Brosnahan head sparkling cast in Hansberry revival 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z In an age when social media increasingly merges our public and personal lives, corporate HQ needs to resist this sort of busybody meddling. Opinion | ABC offers a masterclass in how not to handle workplace romance 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Working the polls has long been something that retirees did, along with nice church ladies, neighborhood busybodies, local political gadflies and civics geeks. Perspective | Nonetheless, they voted 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z The Broken Arms is noisy and crowded with busybodies, including an elderly theatrical mouse named Manfred Crabgrass. Creating furry friends with human emotions in ‘Cress Watercress’ 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z This is why Republicans have landed on this strategy of simply giving a single busybody total veto power over a school curriculum or library. "They banned Dolly": Republicans want the dumbest parent at the school to control the curriculum 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z But though they valued self-restraint, reformers never saw themselves as tyrannical busybodies, capitalist police, or enemies of freedom. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z She constantly gets harassed by some busybody aunt or uncle, but our parents are the worst. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Can you tell your family to shut up when they pressure your single sister? 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z “Please don’t call the manager on me Senator Karen,” he continued, including a prayer emoji and referring to Ms. Warren by a nickname for a busybody, know-it-all woman. ‘Senator Karen’: Elon Musk battles ‘my friend’s angry mom’ Elizabeth Warren on Twitter 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Habte might be considered a busybody in any other context, a meddler too interested in the lives of others. One woman helped move the needle on Black vaccination in South L.A. She's 'Mama Tsega' 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z It's legislation designed to arm that one busybody who has more time than sense to endlessly complain about everything, making it impossible for the school to teach even basic lessons to the students. "They banned Dolly": Republicans want the dumbest parent at the school to control the curriculum 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z But his treating congressional committees as troublesome busybodies wasting his time with their questions doesn’t make him a very suitable advocate for that change. Column: Surprise! Postal service is about to get slower — and more expensive 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z “That, I think, in some sense, is being a busybody in other men’s matters. I think that’s some of the sentiment out here in Wyoming. We’re pretty rugged individuals out here in the West.” Low vaccine rate highlights Wyoming conservative streak 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z So, as they approach the end of their intervals, 80-year-old martini drinkers — plucky octogenarians not intimidated by their busybody physicians — should expand their evening repertoire to include Manhattans. Opinion | What my 80 years have taught me 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z A self-described busybody, Tinder picked up pigeon ranching a couple of years ago. We humans have dumped on the poor pigeon for too long; it’s high time to admire this fascinating, fast, quirky bird 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z A busybody telephone operator falls for a writer experiencing a creative slump. Movies on TV this week: 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' and more 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Her commentary spread into various camps on social media, which framed her message as a holiday life-saver or a lying busybody. Katy Tur urges MSNBC viewers to spend Thanksgiving alone: ‘Cook a turkey for yourself’ 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z She doesn’t need the guides, but they help persuade skeptical busybodies, who can’t quite imagine what a Black woman is doing poking around the plants, to leave her alone. Editorial Roundup: Ohio 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z During debate on the bill, one opponent claimed the sponsors were pandering to busybody old maids who were always pushing do-gooder causes. Opinion | 100 Years of Voting Hasn’t Done What We Thought It Would 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z This is just a group of busybodies dictating to others how to conduct their lives. Opinion | The Supreme Court made a mistake on contraception 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z "It might take a few episodes for listeners to get used to the new style," said Charlotte Martin, who plays busybody Susan Carter. The Archers returns with a lockdown twist 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z In later posts and comments she called the COVID-19 illness simply a “respiratory flu” and an excuse for a busybody government. Evangeline Lilly rejects social distancing: ‘Some people value freedom over their lives’ 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z This one, her 11th, is about an old yearbook that goes astray, causing troubles for its owner’s grown daughter and the busybody documentary filmmaker who finds it. Go around the world (without leaving the house) with these 6 new-in-paperback titles 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z This sense of being made a caricature is an issue, he has said, that also aggrieved his father – in Prince Charles’s case as a hapless and ineffectual busybody. Can Prince Harry escape his sea of troubles? 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Her campaign cites her as a kind of spiritual diplomat, called to speak at God-inflected occasions around the world, but it’s very hard to place her in the pantheon of international religious busybodies. Marianne Williamson Wants Politics to Enter the New Age 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z New research suggests these busybodies of the insect world are capable of addition and subtraction—using colors in the place of plus and minus symbols. Bees ‘get’ addition and subtraction, new study suggests 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z They described her, among other things, as a “liar”, “headmistress”, “busybody”, “uncaring” and “untrustworthy”. Theresa May’s survival is just a Tory confidence trick | Gary Younge 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z A local busybody, incensed about infractions against the municipal code? Hundreds of Complaints Flood In About New York Store Signs, but From Whom? 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z But the “Party busybody” didn’t tell Hitler, according to Wilson’s book. ‘The Führer’s child’: How Hitler came to embrace a girl with Jewish roots 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The surveillance video in Anxi is also broadcast to cellphones and some televisions — placing neighborhood snitches and busybodies on the front line of local security. In China's villages, 'Sharp Eyes' are always watching - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z From the perspective of the UK’s 12,000 fishermen, there are probably more statisticians, scientists, government inspectors and general busybodies scrutinising their work than fish in nets. Dead kittiwakes, dwindling fish and oceans of plastic: my voyage of discovery 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Mr del Río says that following that incident, Bishop Duarte refused to ordain him arguing he was "a gossip and a busybody". 'I was forced to swim naked with our priest' 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z He calls her an interfering busybody and asks for her e-mail address. Emma Thompson’s Meticulous Intensity in “The Children Act” 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Don’t wait for your busybody inquisitor to react to your explanation. A Protégé Behaves Badly. Should You Remain His Mentor? 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The shame and rage surrounding abortion, the raw facts of every woman’s body being every busybody’s business, revealed themselves in the details. The UK ignored the Irish abortion question for too long – it was a failure of solidarity 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Its subsequent burgeoning is redundant evidence that restraining a popular appetite with a statute is akin to lassoing a locomotive with a cobweb, which should chasten busybody governments. Opinion | America is about to get more law-abiding 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z "They thought we were busybodies, interfering in Alex's mental health and care, because they were the experts," she added. Doctors 'warned' of killer's knife hoard 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z No one needs to worry about their straight coworkers, concerned mothers, prying neighbours, or busybody pastors logging on and finding out something they are comfortable revealing only to potential dates and sex partners. Grindr was a safe space for gay men. Its HIV status leak betrayed us | Brian Moylan 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The sooner people realize it, the better off we'll all feel and the fewer busybody "here's how you lose weight, and you really need to drop those pounds, fatso" articles we will have to endure. Jane Brody’s Personal Secrets to Lasting Weight Loss 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z What you did do was call yourself a busybody. You may be good with money, but if sister didn't ask your opinion, butt out 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Or should my concerns about seeming a busybody outweigh concerns about her son’s future health? Can I Let My Friend Pay Off My Mortgages? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z But he isn’t the village busybody, snooping of his own accord. ‘We Are Everywhere’: How Ethiopia Became a Land of Prying Eyes 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Is there nothing on this earth that busybody rubber-neckers don't care to peek at anonymously? In China, Daydreaming Students Are Caught on Camera 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Past Dollys have also included the likes of Pearl Bailey and Ginger Rogers, and so playing Broadway’s greatest busybody feels as if it’s an ascension into some sort of leading-lady hall of fame. Review | Bette Midler and ‘Hello, Dolly!’ are a perfect match. Don’t tell me you’re surprised. 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Its themes are familiar in the era of Donald Trump and Brexit: concern for hardworking people, support for traditional values, and opposition to immigration and supranational busybodies. Patriot power: How France's alt-right seeks to sway election - BBC News 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z The answer to your last question is easy: No. If the only issues were being thought to be a busybody and the possibility that a child would be seriously harmed, the latter would win out. Can I Let My Friend Pay Off My Mortgages? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z My daughter, the door expert, labeled me “a busybody” because, since Posh’s diagnosis, I’ve been whirling around — organizing the garage, polishing the cars, vetting the kitchen utensil drawer. I just realized: My dogs eat better than I do 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Chambers has scoffed at the allegation as “busybody, gossipy, vengeful cud.” Former Nebraska justice to review Chambers residency case 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z And he dotes on Mrs. Schmulowitz, his ancient busybody of a landlady, whose health problems provide an emotional subplot for “Hot Start,” the fifth novel in this fine series. Review: David Freed’s ‘Hot Start’ has sense of authenticity 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z She went on to appear in shows such as The Sullivans and Prisoner Cell Block H, before landing her best-known role as Ramsay Street's resident busybody. Vivean Gray, Mrs Mangel in Neighbours, dies aged 92 - BBC News 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Police are reporting phone calls from busybodies who claim to believe that people goofing off on their phones is “suspicious activity.” Don’t fear the Poképocalypse: Pokémon Go is a fun phone game, not the end of life as we know it 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Conservatives normally want to limit standing, to keep busybody liberal public-interest groups from using lawsuits to compel agencies to regulate. What Should We Expect From the Supreme Court’s Showdown Over Immigration? 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z She also doesn’t need help from her parents or busybody matchmaking aunties at the mosque. The Education of Maira Salim 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Like it or not, we are the descendants of busybodies. How Gossip Can Help You 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z "A man in a fading tweed jacket with corduroy patches on the sleeves? "A useless, don't-have-a-clue, busybody who just wants to put you and your mum in a care home, and then forget? Social workers: Do-gooders or doing good? - BBC News 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z They see themselves as do-gooders giving back to society, though others may see them as busybodies. Beijing Retirees Looking to Keep Active Volunteer to Walk the Beat 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z The woman who emailed them was a busybody, but they’re the ones who actually fired you over this. Can I Be Fired Over My Private Text Messages? 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z She called and asked if he wanted to meet — at the Salt Marsh Nature Center, not by the bocce courts with all those busybodies around to see. Taking It Slow, Until She Took Charge 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Seventy-two and suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, he is cared for by his priggish, busybody sister Alexandra. Book Review: In Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Atticus Finch Defends Jim Crow 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Maybe we need an Independence Day from busybodies. DAVID W. KREUTZER: Bureaucrats rarely give consumers what they want 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z The amorphous changes he is seeking in Europe - reforming benefits, bureaucracy and busybody Brussels - can easily be achieved within his meaningless overall objective of resisting "ever closer union". EU referendum: Parallels with 1975 - BBC News 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Instead, everybody judges one another against Confucius’s unattainable ethical standards, creating a society of intrusive busybodies. Reformers want to erase Confucius’s influence in Asia. That’s a mistake. 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z To keep busybodies at bay, Apple paid for police to patrol the area. Apple Paid Local College More than $1 Million for iPhone Event 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z They’re busybodies looking for an opportunity to tell someone what to do and how to live. Last Stand For Soda Taxes -- Hopefully 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Julie: I’ve always been pretty busybody and social and involved with lots of things and friends, so I would eat out a lot, go out for drinks, coffee. The Buy Nothing Year: How Two Roommates Saved More Than $55,000 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z "From Modi's perspective from Gujarat, the Planning Commission may have been a superfluous busybody playing preferential politics, attaching strings to money intended for the state's use," the Indian Express said in an editorial. In peril under India's new PM, a vestige of Soviet-style planning 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Or, is this just busybody gossip that naturally happens in an information-vacuum? Inside Google's Mysterious Ethics Board 2014-02-03T14:03:00Z If the busybody refuses to lay money on it, then the person must not be so sure. Stop Telling Me I’ll “Change My Mind” About Wanting Kids 2013-04-17T09:45:08Z They poke and prod like busybodies at the apparently spongy bacterial meadows. The Startling Mechanical Beauty of a Rotifer in Motion 2013-01-26T01:15:00.190Z “It’s a change in protocol, but now he’ll be expected to live up to it and stop being such a political busybody,” said Mr. Yao. Jiang Zemin, Ex-China Leader Steps Back, Fueling Speculation 2013-01-23T10:14:29Z Marc Fiore, 45, said he thought of Mr. Spengler as “kind of a busybody.” Webster Residents Survey Ruins After Homes Are Burned in Plot to Kill Firefighters 2012-12-27T01:44:19Z The busybodies at the village rumor mill claim that Pop took $200,000 of the Prince’s signing bonus to pay off his debts from gambling and bad business decisions. Prince & the Panda: A Not-So-Grimm World Series Fairy Tale 2012-10-28T12:50:05Z Republican Assemblyman Jay Webber, of Morris Plains, calls Spencer’s bill “busybody government at its best.” Next in New Jersey: Pets Buckle Up? 2012-09-27T19:49:11Z Many firms, however, are reluctant to answer probing questions from Western busybodies: Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned gas giant, scores zero on the first and third measures. Corporate transparency: Measuring mud 2012-07-12T15:01:35Z And if busybody former president Nicolas Sarkozy looked like he was permanently campaigning, it is partly because he actually was, with some intermediary election or other falling every year he held office. Monsieur Power Broker 2012-06-18T18:15:00Z Why have you left me to learn his name from the lips of servants and busybodies? Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Though please don't think me a foolish busybody. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z He had recognized Mary and the tattered Bosham, and he had read the riddle, grasped the facts, and cursed the busybody, all within thirty seconds. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Here a verbal commercial agency was established, and here delightful old gossips, like busy Sam Pepys and garrulous old busybodies, like Johnson's Bozzy, met and told each other all about everybody else's affairs. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z That was a man whom Lindo met daily in the street and passed with a careless nod and a word, not dreaming for an instant that the spiteful little busybody was concerning himself with him. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z That is the usual and proper fate of busybodies. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z "They are a couple of busybodies, and you can tell them so if you please, with my compliments." Miser Farebrother, Volume I (of 3) A Novel 2012-03-13T02:00:28.227Z The brothers treated their chatelaine with such an increase of punctilio and ceremony as should perforce stop the idle gossip of provincial busybodies. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z The busybodies talked nonsense, as they generally do. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z But to hoodwink suspicion he must be advised to avoid too abrupt a pardon, such as should set the tongues of busybodies clacking. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Then the good old busybody, whose mission it is to help things along. The Lucky Piece A Tale of the North Woods 2012-02-13T03:00:18.927Z Mrs. Thornimett's friends and acquaintances had assembled to tender counsel, after the fashion of busybodies of the world. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z These busybodies don't understand how the real media world operates. Don't let the facts get in the way of getting a story on to Twitter 2012-02-10T12:34:34Z To answer a busybody throwing doubts upon the statement of an honourable gentleman is a mistake. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z "What you two prim busybodies don't appear to understand is that Miss Courteen prefers to remain with me." The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z He departed, her firm friend and almost choked with disgust at his own readiness to believe the foul reports, magnified by gossiping busybodies. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z Perhaps it makes one a little of a busybody. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z I know more about Harriet Beecher Stowe than most people—though she never has set foot in the South—and I know she's a busybody. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z No, I've lost him—thanks to that old busybody over there. The Brass Bottle A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts 2011-10-11T02:01:04.737Z She herself will testify that no harm was done to her; no compulsion applied; and that you are an infernal busybody with some delusions of your own. Sentiment, Inc. 2011-10-09T02:00:23.850Z And this silliest and vainest of busybodies was the elder brother of Thomas and Henry Erskine! Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z My wife and I—naturally we’re great busybodies—have talked of your affair and we differ about it completely. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z They are the storm centers: it is there the busybodies talk. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z Without playing the part of the busybody, we may study the facts of human nature, and be aware of the developments of society. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z Photograph: Antonio Olmos Back to school time and millions of British kids are heading back to classrooms to embark on the national curriculum so beloved of busybody ministers. Kids today need a licence to tinker 2011-08-27T23:04:00Z It is the harvest, if not of the busy bee, at any rate of the busybody. Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.327Z The thoughtless chatter of busybodies, like this talkative waiter, often reflected public opinion with marvellous accuracy. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z O.K., there is something to be said for City Hall’s keeping its busybody hands off of these events. City Room: Hot Dogs, Explosions and History 2011-07-05T12:43:07Z Provided, of course, that he had succeeded in discouraging the attentions of the gallant busybody in fit shape to make himself a nuisance again that night. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z Wiseacres and busybodies told all who cared to listen how they had predicted some such catastrophe. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z It's the empty, barren, purse-lipped busybodies who cannot stay out of other adult's private and sexual lives -- while pretending to be elevated -- that are the truly odious villains here. The joys of repressed voyeuristic titillation 2011-06-07T15:08:00Z “I really find it troubling, this busybody nature.” Bulb in, Bulb Out 2011-06-03T12:00:41Z But these busybodies were not encouraged to say the little they knew. Love and hatred 2011-05-13T02:00:08.103Z "Dee," I whispered, "put your little finger in its mouth and let it suck until that busybody down the hall goes back into her room." At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-04T02:00:13.920Z "Your good-hearted old man is nothing but an old tattler and busybody." Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z In the Cabinet, Hoover was regarded as a highly capable busybody. The fight that just won't die 2011-04-10T15:01:00Z Last August I saw him in the remotest wilds of the Adirondacs, impatient and inquisitive as usual; a few weeks later, on the Potomac, I was greeted by the same hardy little busybody. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z Unfortunately some busybody went to see the entry, and came to herald his glorious discovery.” The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Edwards almost lived in the sick-room, being unwilling to risk the chance of some busybody undoing all his work. The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia 2011-03-22T02:00:16.873Z And so I shall be connected with my inspector, in a sort of family relationship, and this old busybody, who has tied and twisted, and knotted the match, shall triumph? Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z Sometimes I have had a fancy that if he were to come home and see her—but that's an old busybody's dream. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Spoof might order me out as a meddling busybody; he might subject me to the torture of taking Jean from me before my very eyes. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z We are bringing out a paper for our own ends—not to report the speeches of busybodies.' The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z Yet some busybodies up in Paris, some fools, seem to think that we are going too fast in Nantes. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z I'm afraid that I lost my temper a little, and I told Rosa she could write to all the busybodies at home and tell them from me to go to the devil. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z The captain was the gentlest of men, and, what is very rare, was nothing of a busybody. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z Bouillot acted the busybody, moved to and fro, jested with his men, and by way of encouragement gave them sound slaps in the small of the back. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z The man now chosen to rule New Netherland was a narrow-minded busybody, eager to interfere in small matters and without the statesmanship required to conduct large affairs. Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York 2011-01-17T03:00:47.770Z The children would be looked after all right: there were busybodies enough in the house for that!... Dr. Adriaan 2010-12-29T03:00:33.467Z He turns on his heel and departs in good order to his study, branded—for life, he feels convinced—as an officious busybody, a presumptuous upstart, and worst of all, a betrayer of old friends. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z I’m through with all such silly business, and I don’t propose to have busybodies discuss whether or not I am addle-brained!” The Wishing Well 2010-12-20T17:12:27.090Z "I don't want my kids being bothered with my busybody friends," March said. Social media users 50 and older are fastest-growing Web demographic 2010-09-24T18:14:00Z No one in authority knew about the tweet until some busybody decided to report Chambers. Twitter and a scary tale of modern Britain 2010-09-18T23:06:00Z A regiment of busybodies—from lawyers to human-resources functionaries—is waging war on office romance, particularly between people of different ranks. Schumpeter: Down with fun 2010-09-16T11:19:00Z In Florida real estate parlance, he is a “condo commando” — a busybody who questions other residents on what they are doing and then routinely complains to the condo’s board about them. Wealth Matters: If It Causes Stress, Is It Really a Vacation Home? 2010-07-23T15:59:00Z Mrs. Paul was a stay-at-home mom, longtime Girl Scout troop leader and self-described “busybody” who prided herself on knowing exactly what everyone was doing. For the Pauls, Libertarianism Began at Home 2010-06-05T16:22:00Z On domestic politics he took his cue from Crosland's Labour 60s revisionism, though he retained his father's suspicion of do-gooder, busybody politicians of all stripes – and their motives. Alan Watkins obituary 2010-05-09T15:08:00Z "To shoe the goose" is now quite obsolete as a saying, though it was at one time very popular as a suggestion to those people, fussy busybodies, who will keep meddling in other people's affairs. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources The tribunes he regarded as noxious busybodies, whose loose talk was dividing Rome into two parties. Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men The mind should be receptive, a harp waiting to catch the winds, a pool ready to be ruffled, not a bustling busybody for ever trotting about on the pavement looking for a new bun shop. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man I thought the complainants a set of self-righteous busybodies, and I vastly preferred the good will of the delinquent. Witching Hill A busybody, self-interested, he meddled with everything that could bring water to his milldam. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster As yet it is merely a plaything for a number of well-meaning busybodies, and an occasional convenience to a few middle-class readers. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses Evidently this fatuous busybody had not yet sprung the full force of the tremendous battery with which he believed himself armed. A Traitor's Wooing Bishop Hall said that the tongues of busybodies are like the tails of Samson’s foxes—they carry firebrands and are enough to set the whole field of the world in a flame. Weighed and Wanting Addresses on the Ten Commandments He was a busybody, I knew, and the worst gossip in the whole of that gossip-loving city on the Weser. Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England The old busybody has always some secret matter in hand for the hypocrites of the abbey. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades He's a line man now," announced Griggs after the introduction, "but some busybody has gone and told him that there's such a thing as real color. Ewing\\'s Lady So all that was left to the busybodies and the scandalmongers was to hear what they could and give free rein to their tongues. Leerie "I don't know whether I am only going to prove myself a busybody; but I am so fond of Mary Blanchet." The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. When the days grow shorter and the nights get longer, Jack Frost is a regular busybody—he is here, there, and everywhere. Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks And withal they learn also to be idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. Women of Early Christianity She is not shut up in the harem; but in the use of her tongue, and in her capacity as a busybody, there seems to be no restraint upon her. Greek Women But she was not to escape thus easily; some busybodies speedily reported what she had said to the Privy Council, which issued a warrant for her arrest. Women of England "She must be a heartless creature indeed!" the busybodies said. A Life Sentence A Novel "Well," thought Mr. Barnes, "I am first on the scene this time, and no busybodies shall tumble things about till I have studied their significance." An Artist in Crime And, besides, I got a hint from Cardinal Fleury, that old busybody, who manages a good deal more than the king’s conscience.” Francezka In private life Forster had the character of a bumptious busybody, which character indeed the two books just mentioned, even without the anecdotes abundant in more recent books of biography, abundantly establish. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) But Mr. Brown was there, and at sight of him Mr. Byrd's caution took alarm, and he bestowed upon this intrusive busybody a close and searching scrutiny. Hand and Ring "You don't know one thing about my business, and you can't prove a word you say, you infernal, lying, old busybody, not one thing," he fairly hissed in his rage. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas The surgeon, with a few words and much quiet show of efficiency, knelt by him, heedless of these official busybodies. Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp With what interest did she catch every word that these busybodies interchanged. The Grandee “That Nana is an officious busybody, trying to run our lives.” The Real Hard Sell The agricultural model, for instance, which was practicable, proved a kind of fly-paper for these busybodies. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) The chairman put far away from him the tell-tales and busybodies; but when, shortly after, one Sunday night the hayrick burned which he had just stacked up Saturday evening, he too began to scent mischief. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Last August I saw him in the remotest wilds of the Adirondack, impatient and inquisitive as usual; a few weeks later, on the Potomac, I was greeted by the same hardy little busybody. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 It did Sir Tom good to send these busybodies away. Sir Tom Henrietta Hen, who was one of the busiest busybodies on the farm, came along and stood and watched old dog Spot while he dug and scratched and howled about the woodpile. The Tale of Old Dog Spot There are so many busybodies in a little place, and the smaller the place is the more meddlesome people are. The Broom-Squire Car rental companies and mass transit and traffic authorities are watching where we go, sending us automated tickets, finking us out to busybodies, cops and bad guys who gain illicit access to their databases. Little Brother What pleased the hawk-faced old busybody most was the game the suave Harthouse was playing, which she was sharp enough to see through at once. Tales from Dickens He understood the spiteful nature of this little busybody, and was in no mood to listen to him now. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country If you must be a busybody say that. The Paliser case Nevertheless, the object of the high moralists and busybodies was partially attained, inasmuch as the difficulties and dangers attending a visit to Thor's Stone reduced the number of those seeking superhuman assistance in their difficulties. The Broom-Squire Perhaps that old, stupid, busybody, portrait-painting friend of his had advanced it. Melomaniacs And unless he liked gun-fighting, a man would have to be a good deal of a busybody to give the town marshal anything more tangible than his best wishes in the way of support. When the West Was Young United Italy is unitedly in the war, and, except among a few political busybodies, who intrigue after the manner of their kind, there are not two opinions about the war. The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War At the beginning of this month, I wrote to the French minister, M. Mercier, a friendly and respectful note, warning him against meddling with politicians and busybodies. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 His affairs are no business of Fräulein Sartorius, or any other busybody.” The First Violin A Novel Maria is the only one that knows, and she says I'm a busybody. Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly They may support you, or they may call you an interfering busybody for your pains; you'll have to take your chance of that. The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life Some tiresome busybody would be sure to see them, and report the matter to Miss Beasley. The Madcap of the School Nothing of the kind could ever happen, she said—she wished those busybodies would leave Raby and Mona alone; Mona was her friend, not his. Wee Wifie Let a hundred busybodies raise their clamoring tongues, they can never divide you and me. The First Violin A Novel Bessie is bigger than I am, but she isn't a busybody at all. Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly For Nancy's part, she had not thought of much besides-128- Plunkett; but she did not mean to reveal the situation to the court busybodies. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces Every meeting had to be accounted for, or there was no knowing what match-making busybodies wouldn't say; or, rather, what they would say would be easily guessable by the lowest human insight. Somehow Good "Oh, she told you about that, did she, the meddling busybody!" he answered coolly. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature His colleagues called him an 'enthusiast,' and disliked him as a busybody if not a fanatic. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. He plucked at the boy’s girdle; but the athlete extended one slim hand, seized the Spartan’s arm, and with lightning dexterity laid the busybody flat on Mother Earth. A Victor of Salamis Please do not regard me merely as an officious meddler—a busybody with nothing to do except to mind other people's affairs. Sundry Accounts He soon found that she was no longer the over‑zealous proselytizing busybody of the Cross—but immensely a woman of the world, making immense allowances. The Martian He becomes a sort of universal foreman, not a man, but a man-orchestra, a busybody, so busy that he can apply himself to nothing. The Cult of Incompetence But by what right did that busybody mix into his affairs? The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan "I suppose you will call me a busybody?" The Hero Conscience, but just now so insistent and disturbing a familiar, vanished for a space, nay more, assumed the garb of a meddling busybody who seeks to discover harm where no harm is. Studies in love and in terror On the instant the matter was clear to me, who have a genius for certain ways of a busybody. Friendship Village He was one of those amiable busybodies who take care of other people’s troubles for them. The Fighting Edge One of the most industrious and persistent seed-transporting agencies I know of is that ubiquitous, energetic, rollicking, meddlesome busybody, the crow. Seed Dispersal "Surely it is possible to be that without being a malicious busybody." The Hero If you have any influence with her, I beg you to persuade her to refuse herself to the endless busybodies who want to hear her account of what happened. Studies in love and in terror And do what I would, there came some singing in my blood, and like a busybody, I found myself standing still in the road fashioning a plan. Friendship Village The most likely of all was that the Contessa had seen that roundabout little busybody in the station, and taken an instant dislike to her through her single eyeglass. Miss Mapp Unfortunately some busybody in America made it his concern to forward to Irving all the ill-natured flings which could be gleaned from American notices of the new book. Washington Irving It would never do to come slinking back like a whipped cur; he must carry it off bravely in case the usual busybodies should be gathered round the bar. The House with the Green Shutters Nan Archdale led her life without reference to what those about her considered appropriate or desirable; and years had gone by since the boldest busybody among them would have ventured a word of rebuke. Studies in love and in terror At mention of this a busybody ran up the narrow street, calling loudly: 'Fräulein Wilhelmine! A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg These rules were never broken, and naturally the boys felt rather insulted when the city turned loose a horde of blue-coated busybodies to interfere with things that didn't concern them. At Good Old Siwash Certain pains, we are told by hearsay busybodies, mean certain serious conditions, and the category of these diseases extends from indigestion to consumption and to cancer. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies The keeper made the busybodies take themselves off. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life "Socrates is an evil doer, a busybody, who pries into things in heaven and under the earth, and teaches these same things to others." The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics In the early days of Secession agitation, another son of Judge T. G. Morgan, Henry, had died in a duel over a futile quarrel which busybodies had envenomed. A Confederate Girl's Diary The terms of the two notes are widely divergent; and, in such a case, Pitt naturally accepted that of Lebrun and scouted that of Maret, as of a busybody or an intriguer. William Pitt and the Great War The women who are eternally poking their noses into other people's business, who burden their minds with other people's affairs, who are busybodies, always neglect their homes and their children. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies And those who by human birth were more ancient than Christ, when they attempted to consider and prove things by reason, were brought before the tribunals as impious persons and busybodies. A Source Book for Ancient Church History Probably some malicious busybody had become aware of his frequent calls at Four Winds and chose to interfere in his private affairs thus. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 A man who has a genius for that thing always carries it in his face, just as his opposite—the busybody—carries the traces of his restless inquisitiveness in the face and manner. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude "Oh, you go home, y' busybody!" he answered. The Rich Little Poor Boy She sincerely hoped that Diana had escaped notice both going and returning, and that no busybody from the village would bring a report to Miss Todd. A harum-scarum schoolgirl She was a busybody, always trying to get somebody into trouble. The Tale of Snowball Lamb As for me, I have my little house, my very own and no rented one, and all my dear boys, and I'm a happy old busybody. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 And as soon as they had passed on Mrs. Woodchuck remarked what a busybody he was. The Tale of the The Muley Cow Slumber-Town Tales The mind should be receptive, a harp waiting to catch the winds, a pool ready to be ruffled, not a bustling busybody, forever trotting about on the pavement looking for a new bun shop. The Green Carnation My scrawny busybody of a maid opened it before I had opportunity to even draw forth my key. The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle The gossip, the busybody, the scandalmonger is the worst pest that infests the average town and village. Practical Ethics Fatigue, too, came to dull that busybody—that tireless, gossiping gadabout—conscience. Lorraine A romance The court was infected with parasites in the way of informers and busybodies who knew no way to thrive except through intrigue. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 What if they had believed the horrible accusation spread by you and a few more vagabond busybodies of the same kidney? The Day of Wrath Nothing in Spain was as troublesome nowadays as the busybodies would have one believe—not even the beggars. The Car of Destiny Moreover, the bishop seemed to be so utterly unconscious that anyone could accuse him of the crime, that Graham shrank from being the busybody to enlighten him. The Bishop's Secret He hadn't epaulets nor a sword, like our traps, but for all that there was a sort of family likeness, and the same busybody expression. My Friend The Murderer But not for long, for in a little while he heard of an old organist who had taken up Martin’s rôle—a meddlesome busybody who fished in troubled waters, for the trouble’s sake. The Nebuly Coat Though Lida had parried his questions at first, protecting her secret, she was now grateful because he had persisted; his manner and his nature removed him from the ranks of mere busybodies. Joan of Arc of the North Woods He felt no pain to speak of, but busybodies kept bothering him. From Place to Place Meanwhile, the busybody looked after the curate with an evil smile; and, gratified at having aroused such irritation as the abrupt parting signified, turned back to The Derby Winner. The Bishop's Secret He was a poor specimen, that foreman; one of your little, officious, meddling busybodies, as aggravating as the buzzing of a persistent fly. The Paternoster Ruby That marriage will draw away all the busybodies. Good Old Anna But if he applies his rules to other than his own personal or domestic affairs, he is berated as an impertinent busybody who is talking of things he does not understand. The Moral Economy You will give our friends here the impression that I am a busybody. Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore Langland lets loose upon the indolent, the careless, the busybodies who talk much and work little, a foe more terrible and more real then than now: Hunger. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance It is all true enough, and every word about the six-legged busybodies is true as true. Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies He's turning out a perfect busybody, and he's getting as artful as they make 'em. Salthaven Especially they agreed that Jimmy Rabbit was a busybody and that somebody ought to teach him better manners. The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales The Army Council were, no doubt, responsible in their corporate capacity for abolishing the left-hand salute, but there must have been some busybody who put them up to it. Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 This had been the reasoning among the Fellness busybodies ever since Coomber had announced his intention of taking the little girl home; but he was as obstinate in this as in most other things. A Sailor's Lass In other words, we want you to think and feel about the lives of these six-legged busybodies, and see for yourselves how much even a butterfly can add to the interest and beauty of living. Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies "Listless triflers," "busy idlers," "purposeless busybodies," are seen everywhere. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power After all, as they said, when any protest filtered through to Leadenhall Street, what were the natives for, except to be exploited; and busybodies who took them to task were talking nonsense. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert “You will not be able to stop at the rectory even if that busybody Bates doesn’t carry it over to the magistrates.” The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias Usually she was quite harmless, even if she was a busybody and a gossip. The Tale of Betsy Butterfly Tuck-Me-In Tales We know that Christ's people are not thieves—not liars—not busybodies—not dishonest—not avaricious—not wasteful—not cruel. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature The landlord is on the point of putting the man in prison for debt, when the busybodies jump to the conclusion that he is the Inspector. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections "You must take out a summons in the proper fashion," said the magistrate, who clearly had no sympathy with busybodies. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert We are not troubled by the suspicion that some busybody of a planet is only waiting its chance to do us an ill turn. By the Christmas Fire And Betsy hoped that Mrs. Ladybug's errand to the farmhouse would keep that busybody engaged for the rest of the day. The Tale of Betsy Butterfly Tuck-Me-In Tales For she will go straight back and tell it all, to this over-bearing busybody of a queen, and if now I do not go, it will seem an incivility almost equal to an insult. The Substance of a Dream That unscrupulous busybody felt himself in great danger, for he knew that the British regarded him in the light of a deserter from their army. The War of Independence The small busybody had managed to stir the kettle, but, her youthful arms being quite unequal to sustaining its weight, she let it drop, retreating with a wild Indian yell of alarm. For the Sake of the School Every tinker, tailor or candle stick maker, every busybody in the city took it upon themselves, although without training, ability or experience, to advise how the city should be governed. Watch Yourself Go By My lord grew offensive, hinting of busybodies who came between the Duke and his friends. Simon Dale "If there is anything I mortally abhor, it is a tattler and busybody." Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems However, as I am an inveterate busybody I cannot refrain from an attempt to enlist your sympathies for some of my favorite Chopin. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques You'd have married me last fall if some busybody hadn't filled your ears with scandal. Quin The busybodies who so greatly interfered with public matters were from the grocery wagon sections and were addicted to chewing cloves. Watch Yourself Go By The Kaiser was properly the national busybody, the head schoolmaster, who attended to everybody and everything and drove all constantly forward toward a unified and splendid destiny. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life "I thought she was a meddlesome busybody, and now I know it." Dixie Hart Now, I know well that the Commissioners have had you before them; they are tiresome busybodies. By What Authority? It is not out of place here to warn a young wife against being advised by a neighbor or a busybody, as to whom she should select as physician or nurse. The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Among her neighbours was a busybody who craftily found out how the old woman had so suddenly become rich. Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know Why, Alfred, that old busybody hasn't yet got it through his head that any living man could object to a joke like that. Dixie Hart A few impertinent busybodies protest against the demolition of Rantremly Castle, but that is all.' The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont He had called her a119 meddlesome busybody who went about poking and prying into other people's affairs and had ordered her to leave the house and never enter it again. The Alchemist's Secret The girl had stopped when addressed, but almost immediately walked on, as if to escape the little busybody who, nothing daunted, trotted at elbow for a rod or more. The Henchman The German, and especially the Prussian policeman, has become the greatest official busybody in the world. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View I have often wondered if the busybodies got it straight. Dixie Hart It wouldn't have mattered if he was merely an insignificant busybody like Christy. The Loom of Youth Some meddling busybody interfered in the quarrel and brought the proprietors into a friendly spirit. The Gourmet's Guide to Europe Burr's reticence gave little satisfaction to the busybodies who sought by direct question to verify their several conjectures. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett And now there's that yarn that some careless busybody started about Nanny Turner being left a fortune of eighteen thousand dollars. Green Valley The garrulous busybodies, who were Rose's chief dread, told the Confederate officials that they had certainly slept near Johnson the night before the day he was missed. Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War Gentlemen, this busybody has come all the way from Washington here to tell me I'm a thief. A Certain Rich Man Some friends were sent for, Mrs. Myers, Miss Polly Lyon, daughter of her master, and others; while busybodies flocked in, among them one Robert Scarrat, a toiler, who had no personal knowledge of Elizabeth. Historical Mysteries For we hear that there are some, which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge The gossips and the busybodies would die of mal-nutrition were it not for marriage and its complications. The Spinster Book The busybodies, who had indeed told the truth, looked at the speaker in speechless amazement, but reiterated their statements. Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War We can readily fancy what literature becomes when not only its born children, but the minor busybodies whose natural place is politics, excluded from these, pour into the study of letters. On the Sublime The coach, or cab, was crammed full, some friends walked, several curious citizens rode, and, when Elizabeth arrived at the house, Nash, the butler, and other busybodies had made a descent on it. Historical Mysteries It may be a busybody has come in to worry you, who never bought a cent's worth of you or anybody else whom you know; nevertheless her tongue is an advertisement. The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future Some busybody or other lost no time in conveying the startling news to Stephen Dale, who had hitherto had no suspicion of the state of things. Up in Ardmuirland He searched for him through the motley crowd, but in vain; then, recollecting that the peddler's bundle had been left behind, he sought Musa, to see if he had heard anything of the little busybody. The Days of Mohammed But life is a good deal like a big busybody of a policeman, continually telling us to get up and move on! The Motor Maid He was a bit drunk, I think, and thought he'd have a shot at makin' the village busybodies sit up and give 'em something to talk about. The Riddle of the Frozen Flame On hearing this Xanthus commands him to find some one who is not a busybody. Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers How dull of him not to have guessed at once! it must be that unfortunate girl, Kitty Crichton, with whom busybodies were associating his name. A Comedy of Masks A Novel Some long-headed busybody might stumble on our secret and undo us. Carette of Sark I mention this because otherwise busybodies might have misinterpreted the arbitrary action of his executors to the detriment of his fame. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Joshua and Neddy carried on the boiling down business successfully for some time, regularly shipping tallow to Melbourne in casks, until some busybody began to insinuate that their tallow was contraband. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned From the back premises advanced to meet me the undertaker, with a visage tentatively wobegone, not yet knowing whether I was widower, orphan, businesslike executor or merely the busybody family friend. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21 With the member for Mallow, too, indiscreet busybody that he was, had he not a reckoning to settle? A Comedy of Masks A Novel If Janet was a busy soul, she was just as certainly a busybody. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 He was stable-boy, steward, ladies'-maid, and professional busybody, as well as a bit of a character, though he possessed none worth mentioning. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Well, if I would press her, two or three busybodies had hinted that a certain young lady, who should be nameless, was rather too eager in her pursuit of the vicar. Uncle Max I have cooked up a story to keep the freedmen and other busybodies off. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. "What meddling busybody told him that the Baroness gave me a new blanket at Michaelmas?" thought she; but at last, very unwillingly, she went to an inner room to fetch a blanket from her bed. Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales The man who had made the statement was the loose-lipped busybody who had suggested to his host that he give up his six-shooter since there were "ladies present." Judith of the Plains There was a local busybody of a minister, and it was he who first intimated to the then Mrs. Spalton that her dear and intimate friend, was betraying her.... Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Perhaps he did, and perhaps—as some busybodies said—he took the cottage for that purpose; but so far, he had refrained from seeking the society of Pine's wife. Red Money Pah! it is a courtyard, bounded by four square walls, a path or two to walk in, and the eyes of busybodies to order our doings and sneer us out of our souls. The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making It was only because they were such good friends that the busybodies said they had just missed being man and wife. Doctor Claudius, A True Story One of those plumed busybodies, who plagued him considerably and followed him everywhere, even to his meals, so they said, thought to play the wag, and took the Emperor's place as he rode away. Folk Tales Every Child Should Know That busybody of an administrator and censor has undone all! David Lockwin—The People's Idol There, every busybody is interested in his neighbor; here, we are met on every hand by strangers who do not know, or wish to know anything in regard to us. Randy and Her Friends The two amiable busybodies sipped their tea and watched. The Imaginary Marriage It's very sweet and generous of you not to be angry with me and think me a busybody meddling in other people's business. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl England indeed has three nations: the workers, the idle rich who live only for themselves, and the idle rich or well-to-do who live also for others—in other words the busybodies. A Wanderer in Holland The busybodies, good-natured but garrulous, did not have to rehearse the story to its end; it would have been superfluous. The Daughter of Anderson Crow Neighborly busybodies meet the children on the street and sigh over them and ask them how their new mother treats them. Around The Tea-Table In fact, he could either be greeted as a Mehrer des Reichs, or be disowned as an unauthorised busybody. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) A meddlesome busybody who pokes his nose into other men's secrets. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill Luckily her nature never allowed her to become a mischievous busybody. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest And behind them and above them, in all parts of the House, was that countless host of busybodies, bores and specialists who see in Egypt an opportunity of airing fads, fanaticism, or vanities. Sketches in the House (1893) Reformers he appraised as busybodies, who were protesting against the conditions of success in business and politics. The Promise of American Life In fact, it is certain that Queen Victoria absolutely forbade any such step; but the mischief done by sentimental orators, heedless newspaper-editors, and factious busybodies, could not be undone. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) And that's what's before you now, girl, so for goodness' sake don't go about like the parish pan, letting every busybody make mischief with you. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill Naturally, all this gave rise to endless talk; what prattling little busybody but would relish so succulent a morsel! Stories of the Border Marches O brother, use it to curb extravagant spirits and busybodies; but let not the nations be governed by it. The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Ellabelle was peeking between the plush curtains on this occasion, for some heartless busybody during the day had told her that her son and husband was both renegades now. Somewhere in Red Gap That offensive little busybody, which pretended to have been a champion of "this people's institution" came out with a nasty editorial, entitled "The Post's Latest Flop." Queed But the national élan forbade any postponement or compromise; and France forthwith accepted the rule of an able official hierarchy as a welcome alternative to the haphazard acts of local busybodies. The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) “The Lady Trustees are a pack of old busybodies,” growled his sister. The Lion and The Mouse A Story Of American Life No doubt some busybody, seeking to curry favor with him, had run to this Clanton with the tale of how Mysterious Pete had sworn to kill him on sight. A Man Four-Square Let the big busybodies divide her amongst them as they like, so that they leave one alone with one's fair share of the sky and the grass, and an occasional, not too vociferous, nightingale. Prose Fancies (Second Series) It was a world where a man couldn't even get a black eye without a thousand busybodies commenting on it. Queed Taking up a report rashly against one another of a scandalous nature, giving ear unto tattlers, and busybodies; or being busybodies in other men's matters yourselves, as this will give great offence. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London As for Tessa—I bequeath her and her little morals to the first busybody who cares to apply for them. The Lamp in the Desert It was remarkable that, of all the busybodies and impertinent people in the parish, not one ventured to put the plain question to Mr. Hooper wherefore he did this thing. Twice Told Tales George Sand promised to write the preface, but some busybody told her that I was attacking the whole world, so she would have nothing to do with it. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 He had also a large fund of personal vanity which made him sometimes a busybody when inaction or silence would have been wiser for himself. Lord Elgin Kremer was a thoroughly honest but grossly illiterate rustic busybody who thus far had attracted the capital's attention mainly by reason of his curiously cut leopard-skin overcoat. The Reign of Andrew Jackson At the first opportunity, Frances confided to me that Mrs. McLeod had forbidden Esther visiting them again, since some busybody had carried the news of our picnic to her ears. A Texas Matchmaker Doubtless a dozen busybodies had been watching him and told his wife the whole affair. Twice Told Tales The busybody is gossiping among little knots of people and telling, manufacturing, or magnifying the latest scandal, or the latest news from the frontier, from Antioch, from the racing-stables, the law-courts, or the palace. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul After many months there arrived in the neighborhood one Denton Offut, one of those scheming, talkative, evanescent busybodies who skim vaguely over new territories. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I One cannot help feeling a good deal of sympathy for the excellent doctor, although he was certainly a busybody and, one would naturally infer, a bore as well. George Washington, Volume II He had come to Cornwall in pursuit of the last pieces of evidence for his family tree, and some local busybody had told him that I was versed in Cornish antiquities and heraldry. The Moon Rock But of a prospective bride the most gossip-loving busybody at White's had never heard! The Reason Why Let us try for the future to be thick-skinned, and when Gashmu's tongue is whispering, and whenever some busybody like Sanballat repeats Gashmu's words to us, let us act as Nehemiah did. The King's Cup-Bearer He will no more admit that Paine was a busybody, inflated with conceit and with a strong dash of insolence, than he will that Thomas was a drunkard. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays Mere busybodies and sentimentalists they are and bitterly jealous of each other. The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes Never in Oxford, before or since, were busybodies more truculent or more unscrupulous. The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 He seemed to be a sort of busybody there and interfering in other people's business and I don't think his letters impressed me. The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) He sent me another letter, in which he declared D.L. was to him as a 'heathen and a publican,' and I was a 'busybody in other men's matters.' The Grimké Sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimké: the First American Women Advocates of Abolition and Woman's Rights Well, to-day they are things like this—an angry letter from an old friend to whom something which I said about him was repeated by a busybody. The Silent Isle It was put about now that he drank, because some busybody had seen a jar of spirits carried into the house from the wine merchant's cart. Hodge and His Masters Cupido is a regular busybody and you can get all the latest news in his barbershop. The Torrent Entre Naranjos It was he who, on a kindly busybody expressing surprise at his daring to drink so many different wines at dinner, said that it was only the indifferent wines of which he was afraid. Collections and Recollections But this was risky; it would bring him in view of a kitchen window whence some busybody might observe him. The Wrong Twin "I always leave that sort of thing to the busybodies who enjoy it." The Obstacle Race If so, there may be some busybody or another down there fool enough to tell her that people are talking about her. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage The pension was in arrears, and busybodies annoyed him with interferences of all sorts. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti This idea, being once started, made those idle busybodies there are in every village eager to discover if the suspicion were correct. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 It has been said by some busybody that his testimony was incompatible with mine, and so a sort of feeling is manifested as if it were so. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II If one attacks you, your reputation will be set upon by busybodies. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition The brat is calmed at last, and would no doubt remain quiet enough, only some mischievous busybody points you out again with "Who's this, baby?" and the intelligent child, recognizing you, howls louder than ever. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Michelangelo, we know, was extremely impatient of control and interference; and we shall see, within a short time, how excessively the watching and spying of busybodies worried and disturbed his spirits. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti They procured from him a certificate that the noble busybody and his physician had made a mistake, and that all the functions of life in the infant appeared to be in perfect order. Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire What d' you expect in a town that's as filled with busybodies, that have plenty of time to stick their noses into other folks' business, as this is? Main Street Doubtless, a dozen busybodies had been watching him, and told his wife the whole affair. From Twice Told Tales They are busybodies who are about early in the morning, hammering, shouting, and rattling the fire-irons, and rendering it generally impossible for the rest of the house to remain in bed. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow There were circumstances about the sudden death of Boursier which the busybodies of the environs felt they might regard as suspicious. She Stands Accused "And as for understanding her, I understand that she is a confirmed busybody and I told her so." Anne of Avonlea Yes—it was knickerbockers, I'm busybody enough to remember that; and that you had, for your age—I speak of the first far-away time—tremendously stout legs. The Ambassadors Squirrels are the gossips and busybodies of the woods; they haven't learned the fine reserve of its other denizens. The Golden Road But here we were reckoning without the inevitable busybody. The Lost Continent Come to thyself again and let us look at this matter square in the face, and speedily too, lest some unfriend or busybody come on us. The Well at the World's End: a tale And as for Mrs. Lynde being a busybody, perhaps she is. Anne of Avonlea She had an exquisite tact and insight in relation to all points of manners; but the people she lived among were blunderers and busybodies. Middlemarch It sometimes happened that officious busybodies spoke to him of Marius, and asked him: "What is your grandson doing?" Les Misérables In this latter dress, at the instigation of that busiest of busybodies James Boswell, he sat to have his portrait painted. Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1 And the students in our colleges and universities, Paul would not find them tattlers or busybodies. The Woman's Bible As for the lady herself, he wrote her down a tiresome busybody and perhaps he was not far wrong. The Highwayman One serious evil which he hoped might be abolished by a change of system was the ragging of constituencies by a comparatively small number of busybodies interested in some particular fad. Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election I was trying to forget Elena, and in Lichfield it was not possible to induce such forgetfulness without affording unmerited pleasure for gabbling busybodies…. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking "I didn't know I was both a busybody—and a Pharisee!" The Coryston Family A Novel The Apostle accuses women of learning to be idle, going about from house to house, of being tattlers and busybodies—these young widows, or unmarried women. The Woman's Bible The busybody gathered himself together and slunk behind the group of councilmen, while the Mayor slowly ascended the steps of the market cross. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Of all the prying busybodies I know, you are certainly the worst. The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk It is the curiosity of a friend, not of an impertinent busybody. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Russell will forgive me when he hears how I was worked upon by those parasites and prudish busybodies, who infused their vile suspicions into my mind. Tales and Novels — Volume 05 "If you'll be good enough to keep an eye out for busybodies—and yourself as inconspicuous as possible in this doorway…" And he walked back to the curb, measuring the wall with his eye. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama She, with her unique gift of serenity—her place was not among the busybodies grinding axes that were better blunt; interfering with the slow, slow working of the Mills of God. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 For a long time, therefore, neither she nor her father ever talked, or encouraged talk about him; whence certain questing busybodies began to snuff and give tongue. Salted with Fire He too, I think, must have looked upon Cicero as a meddling, over-virtuous busybody; as did even Pompey when he returned from the East. The Life of Cicero Volume One Sister Cecilia," he said, "is a busybody, and, like all busybodies, a fool. From One Generation to Another All was "copy" that came to those cases,-from the glory of the heavenly bodies to the nuisance of the busybodies who scolded his Majesty through the columns of the Bangkok Recorder. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Begin the morning," he says, "by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. Why Worry? Destiny, busybody that she is, has her thousand irons in her perpetual fires, turning, testing and wielding them. The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors So it passed; but a busybody carried this, with other tattle, to Mr Swift, who questioned me also. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty With that he left her, rather precipitately, for Sister Cecilia, like all busybodies, was a quick walker. From One Generation to Another Stuart set out apparently to follow them—but that was only a ruse to blind busybodies. Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee We can not silence the tongues of busybodies and mischief-makers, you know. The Christian A Story Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not. The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Timothy He spoke slowly, giving her time to recover herself, thanking fate that she had collapsed into his arms rather than into those of some chattering village busybody. The Shadow of the East While conversation was going on in this placid, agreeable and instructive manner, the eternal meddler and busybody Boswell, must intrude, to put it in a brawl. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography His brisk little figure in its pressed pants, spats and fedora, bounces around amid the apoplectic disturbances like some busybody Alice in an operatic Wonderland. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago "It is his conscience," said the busybodies, whose inexperience on the subject of conscience excused the mistaken diagnosis. The Native Born or, the Rajah's People You're wondering the same thing about your father that these busybodies are. Georgina of the Rainbows Similar busybodies called at Mr. Cattell's shop in Fleet Street, and plied him with cajoleries when menaces were futile. Prisoner for Blasphemy The father had a partial justification for his wrath in the fact that a busybody had carried to him all manner of slander about Mozart and, likewise, slander about Constanze. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 So some of these naughty busybodies began questioning the children when they could get them away from Waubenoo, for in her presence they were as mute as she was. Algonquin Indian Tales We have heard say no doubt that there are some which walk among you inordinately, and work not at all, but are busybodies. The first New Testament printed in English And I never talk to journalists—a pack of busybodies, sir, saving your presence. The Middle Temple Murder It looks now like certain busybodies in this community had over-stepped themselves and been hoisted up by their own petard. The Boss of Little Arcady "For pity's sake," said Norah, giving the little busybody a good-natured push. Dotty Dimple at Play A little group of pothouse politicians, wire-pullers, busybodies, local journalists, and small lawyers, working for various monetary interests, have "captured" the local Conservative organization. In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace And also they learn to go from house to house idle, yee not idle only, but also trifling and busybodies, speaking things which are not comely. The first New Testament printed in English First they stone our camp; after that they try to burn us out; and now some busybody throws you into the lake. The Outdoor Chums The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera Club Everything was going along finely until two hopeless busybodies were attracted to the spot by his screams, and fished him out. The Boss of Little Arcady Your Ingermans and your Elkins, and the rest of the busybodies gathered at the inn, may defame him as they choose, or as they dare. The Postmaster's Daughter Besom.—This gives a caution to avoid meddling in other people's affairs or you may find yourself regarded as an unpleasant busybody. Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves For some reason—perhaps only that of a social busybody—he wanted to bring about a match between Craven and Miss Van Tuyn. December Love After dinner a busybody in the shape of a too intelligent young coffee-planter, who possessed an aneroid barometer, brought that instrument to the smoking-room with a scared face. The Grey Lady "You see what a meddlesome busybody I am," the guest laughed. Flowing Gold If Mr. Blithers was to have anything to say about the matter, it would be for the ear of the Prince alone and not for the busybodies. The Prince of Graustark I intended to keep snooping busybodies out of that side of the castle if I had to nail up every door in the place, even at the risk of starving those whom I would defend. A Fool and His Money The one was Synesius of course;—that most incoherent and most benevolent of busybodies chose to betray me behind my back:-but I will not trouble you with that part of my story. Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face The final proof that he was human and his name frailty lies in the fact that he was a busybody. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists A charming state of affairs for me if some busybody or some enemy of mine raises the question of my fitness for my holy duties! The Unwilling Vestal They also began to vilify His servants, and to count the very best of them meddlesome, troublesome, busybodies. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 |
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