" At this moment, one of the petty officers came to the group of gossipers and cried: "Go to!

There was a tedious procedure of examination, hindered by the swarms of gossipers, the merchants' agents, smugglers, and the men to whom the latest news meant livelihood, who streamed out of the city gate and mingled with the new-comers from Asia, Bythinia, Pontus, Pisidia, Galatia and Cappadocia.

Do not sit near a group of gossipers or near a creaking door.

Being situated near the Parliament Housethe centre of literary and antiquarian loungers, as well as lawyersCreech's place of business was much frequented by the gossipers, and was known as Creech's Levee.

"When Gray Wolf, who was so jeered and laughed at by all who dare, heard from the gossipers how it had happened that he had received such a thrashing he was doubly wild and furious.

As in those bucolic days the Western press was under the secure censorship of a revolver, a cautious tone of criticism prevailed, and any gossip was confined to personal expression, and even then at the risk of the gossiper.

"Worship makes worshiped, worshiper, worshiping; gossip, gossiped, gossiper, gossiping; fillip, filliped, filliper, filliping.

The boasters suffer from dropsy, the miser from cramp in the wrist, the ambitious from febrile heat, the gossipers, who delight in tale-bearing, from the itch; but you, he says, addressing the prefect, you who govern Rome, suffer from the morbus regius (you see the pun).

Men were also great gossipers ("common talkers") in the churchyard, as a number of presentments show.