It has always occupied a peculiar autonomous position of its own; its political, social, and economic conditions are at least a century behind those of the neighbouring provinces, and have given rise to many gross scandals.

Organised vigils lasted till the thirteenth century in some countries, but owing to abuses and discord they became not a source of edification, but the occasion and cause of grave scandals, and were forbidden gradually and universally.

Some polite scandals of Parisian life.

Evidences of an attempt to suggest, if not actual references to, contemporary scandal, are to be found in such items as "A strange instance of vanity and jealousy in the behaviour of Mrs. F- "; "The particulars of the fate of Mrs. J L "; and "A story of the Duke of 's mistress."

If these are spiced with a little scandal of your neighbours, or the party you have just left, so much the better; they are more relished.

At the very least the truth would mean a hateful reflection on my dead father, and the whole thing would have led to an intolerable scandal.

The life of the regent was a perpetual scandal, especially in his heartless treatment of women, and the disgraceful revels in which he indulged.

" "It is a false scandal," cried Fra Antonio, who had found his voice at last.

And a pretty scandal it'll make.

The wealth of the Church was a sore evil in his eyes, since it diverted the clergy from their spiritual duties, and was the cause of innumerable scandals, and was closely connected with simony and the accumulation of benefices in the hands of a single priest.

And so she stumbles on, from one inevitable admission to another, until the damning truth is clear that she herself is Felicia Hindemarsh, the central, though not the most guilty, figure in a horrible scandal.

There was no doubt that she had felt keenly the tortures which her husband had undergone, and also the humiliation of seeing her name dragged forcibly into this ugly, blackmailing scandal.

It "covereth" all things, studiously conniving at real defects, and concealing assured miscarriages: how much more not divulging imaginary or false scandals!

" "We must try to prevent them from making an unnecessary scandal," said Thorndyke.

It would have made a useless scandal and would have set every one talking.

"You'd have found it significant that Blackburn laid the foundation of his fortune in Panama during the hideous scandals of the old French canal company.

But if you will turn from reading the pages of history, biography, or memoirs, and take up any newspaper of the day, you will doubtless be astounded to find how small a percentage of the divorces, the murders, and other domestic scandals are to be blamed to the possession of genius, unless, as one might well, you recognise a special and separate genius for trouble.

Then Felicite went over all the arguments that he himself had employed to persuade Clotildethe dreadful scandal, to which insult was now added; impending want, so hard for them both; the impossibility of continuing the life they were leading.

" "Be off with your dusty scandals!" said Richard, laughing.

Also it must be admitted that the kingdom of Serbia, with its capital Belgrade, thanks to the internal chaos and dynastic scandals of the previous forty years, resulting in superficial dilapidation, intellectual stagnation, and general poverty, lacked the material as well as the moral glamour which a successful Piedmont should possess.

Meanwhile, he overwhelmed his uncle with marks of attention and friendship; he made every effort to cope with his guest's cheerful discourse, who, after relating the flight of the Grand-Vicar, surprised in criminal conversation with the wife of the Captain of Gendarmerie, acquainted him all the little ecclesiastical scandals.

I may mention, in connection with the above, the system of False-Weights, which is an enormous scandal to this great commercial city.

Nor for several centuries did the monks in their sacred enclosures give especial scandal.

All their lives nothing had happened, and here was a deliciously exciting possible scandal, and they clung to it.

But in the main, the book reflected Defoe's strong tendency to speculate upon unusual and supernatural phenomena, and utterly failed to "divulge the secret intrigues and amours of one part of the sex, to give the other part room to make favorite scandal the subject of their discourse.