tale-bearing

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With quietness they work - Μετα ἡσυχιας· With silence; leaving their tale-bearing and officious intermeddling.

The Value of Real Work 2008
With quietness they work - Μετα ἡσυχιας· With silence; leaving their tale-bearing and officious intermeddling.

Archive 2008-04-01 2008
One way that this tension and quarrelling is produced, is through her own tale-bearing.

For Young Girls and Teens 2005
In vain did he attempt to extricate himself from the consequences of his tale-bearing.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
In vain did he attempt to extricate himself from the consequences of his tale-bearing.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
One way that this tension and quarrelling is produced, is through her own tale-bearing.

Archive 2005-04-01 2005
In vain did he attempt to extricate himself from the consequences of his tale-bearing.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
In vain did he attempt to extricate himself from the consequences of his tale-bearing.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
But you recollect a certain fat lad, son of the schoolmaster, whom Sir Richard punished for tale-bearing three years before, by sending him, not to Coventry, but to Oxford.

Westward Ho! 2007
In vain did he attempt to extricate himself from the consequences of his tale-bearing.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007