Busybodies

Busybodies have taken it upon themselves to "report" me to my Executive Presbyter.

Without Fear And Trembling James F. McGrath 2009

Busybodies and prigs ensure that an officious and rigid reverence for the flag, based directly on military etiquette and codified by the federal government, is practiced in social clubs, sports matches, and even carried into putatively Christian churches, where the flags of a worldly nation often occupy more visual space in the sanctuary than the Cross.

Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2007 – December – 03 2007

Busybodies and prigs ensure that an officious and rigid reverence for the flag, based directly on military etiquette and codified by the federal government, is practiced in social clubs, sports matches, and even carried into putatively Christian churches, where the flags of a worldly nation often occupy more visual space in the sanctuary than the Cross.

Veterans Against Individual Freedom 2007

Busybodies: Without sanction of kinship, custom, or dire need, certain humans will still thrust themselves into affairs.

Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981

Busybodies with good intentions were constantly ordering minor changes in the starship's drive while they waited for politics to let them launch.

World of Ptavvs Niven, Larry 1966

QUOTATION: Busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Quotations New Testament. 1919

Busybodies who reported horrors would be disbelieved, and would be said to be actuated by hatred toward the existing régime and by a perverse love for every country but their own.

Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism 1914

Busybodies lacking all sense of humour therefore buzzed it about that the abolitionist leader sought to stir up a mutiny.

William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

Busybodies rushed back and forth, carrying foolish and inconsequential messages; and these strong yet gentle men, both hungering for sympathy and love, were thrust apart.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists Elbert Hubbard 1885

Busybodies were fond of saying that it never ought to have been his; that, if the strict law of right and justice had been observed, it would have gone to his elder brother; or, rather, to that elder brother's son.

Verner's Pride Henry Wood 1850