rumoured

• It had been rumoured, that the plundering of Algiers was the object of the French armament; but this account he considered as much too vague to warrant implicit adoption. —  The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson
• If so, forget what has been rumoured, and what I have advised you. —  The Memoirs of Napoleon
• "That's why you came, isn't it?" the man said, perhaps a bit sadly. —  The Gates of Thorbardin
• It had been rumoured, though, that the Mafia had financed the establishment. —  Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth
• He had joined himself to Talbot, so it was rumoured, and now a great host was somewhere in our neighbourhood, ready to fall upon us if they could find us, and cut us to pieces, as they had done so often before — witness the fields of Crecy, Poictiers, and Agincourt! —  A Heroine of France

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