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But there was the pressure of always being looked at furtively, of always feeling like whatever we did was getting judged by all the chatty gossippers who populated the halls between classes, and we knew our lives were potent fuel for the all-powerful rumor mill chugging away at the background of every student's and every teacher's conversation.

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But there was the pressure of always being looked at furtively, of always feeling like whatever we did was getting judged by all the chatty gossippers who populated the halls between classes, and we knew our lives were potent fuel for the all-powerful rumor mill chugging away at the background of every student's and every teacher's conversation.

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Such an occurrence created quite a sensation among street-corner gossippers.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

This part of the house may be considered the general resort of the gossippers and quidnuncs; and here, or in other more commodious places, materials for writing, paper, pens, lights, &c. are found.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 285, December 1, 1827 Various

And if there is a hell conducted on the principles of my temporary hell, gossippers will one day wish they had attended strictly to their own business.

A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Clifford Whittingham Beers 1909

And if there is a hell conducted on the principles of my temporary hell, gossippers will one day wish they had attended strictly to their own business.

A Mind That Found Itself Beers, Clifford W. 1908

And here the knot of gossippers, at the corner of the streets, or in the stores, or in the parlors at home, would draw more closely together as they whispered,

Darkness and Daylight Mary Jane Holmes 1866

That same brother-in-law who frightened me, was putting up one evening at a hotel some miles off, and while sitting quietly by himself in one part of the room, he overheard a conversation between a travelling pedler and several gossippers of the neighbourhood, who were lounging away the evening at the hotel.

The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States 1849

That same brother-in-law who frightened me, was putting up one evening at a hotel some miles off, and while sitting quietly by himself in one part of the room, he overheard a conversation between a travelling pedler and several gossippers of the neighbourhood, who were lounging away the evening at the hotel.

The Fugitive Blacksmith Pennington, James W C 1849

That same brother-in-law who frightened me, was putting up one evening at a hotel some miles off, and while sitting quietly by himself in one part of the room, he overheard a conversation between a travelling pedler and several gossippers of the neighbourhood, who were lounging away the evening at the hotel.

The Fugitive Blacksmith or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington James W. C. Pennington 1839