rumour

• He, therefore, sent Savary, in whose practised cunning and duplicity he hoped to find a remedy for the military rashness of Murat, to assume the chief direction of affairs at Madrid; and the rumour was actively spread, that the Emperor was about to appear there in person without delay. —  The History of Napoleon Buonaparte
• [1] Ten days later the Jacobite's Journal had ceased to exist; and that a rumour was abroad connecting this demise of the Journal with the bestowal of a new and arduous post on its editor appears from a paragraph in the London Evening Post . —  Henry Fielding: A Memoir
• The one thing that does worry me a bit about this rumour is the suggestion of a console version. —  Latest from PALGN
• Michael Arrington reported what he called a rumour on technology blog Techcrunch on Thursday night, saying Mountain View-based Google could pay more than $250 million for San Francisco-based Twitter.
• Having said that, i don't know if this rumour is anything more than mere publicity and speculation really. —  Corrieblog

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