town-talk

More micro-cinema at the Trylon, followed by dinner @ town-talk.

7.24.2009 « Photo-a-Day 2009

It was town-talk for at least three days, and was only kept out of the newspapers by the exertions of Mr. Wagg, acting upon a hint from Mr. Wenham.

Vanity Fair 2006

Arthur to marry such a girl as this? and the tete-a-tete of the two gentlemen was broken up by the entry of other gentlemen, members of the Club — when fashionable town-talk, politics, cribbage, and other amusements ensued, and the conversation became general.

The History of Pendennis 2006

It reached Lake from Tom Twitters, of his club, who kept the Brandon Captain au courant of the town-talk; and it came to Dorcas in a more authentic fashion, though mysteriously, and rather in the guise of a conundrum than of

Wylder's Hand 2003

His misconduct at last became town-talk, and his misdeeds were in every body's mouth; so, when he had lamed half-a-dozen labourers, scared the whole neighbourhood like

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

One of the great lyric poets of France, who is placed by his countrymen upon the same level as Pindar -- Denis Leonchard Lebrun -- was the town-talk for several years, during his action against his wife for the restitution of conjugal rights.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

He had been a close friend of Mr. Colwyn, and it was not likely that Mr.. Colwyn's infirmity had remained a secret from him: he must have learned it from common town-talk long ago.

A True Friend A Novel Adeline Sergeant

But before this, a remarkable event occurred, affording still greater food for town-talk and gossip generally.

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

"I find we shall never agree together, therefore let's divide the common stock, and each of us set up for himself: Thou'rt a piece of a scholar, and I'll be no hindrance to thee, but think of some other way; for otherwise we shall run into a thousand mischiefs, and become town-talk."

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

'I have come to see,' she said, 'James Steerforth's fancy; the girl who ran away with him, and is the town-talk of the commonest people of her native place; the bold, flaunting, practised companion of persons like James Steerforth.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917