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...spoke, the girl entered and saw the visitors. She replied rather diffidently to their profuse words of greeting, and sat almost silent while they told her, volubly, the gossip and the possibilities for gossip in the village. She seemed much relieved when they took their leave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FIRST FAMILIES. | 11/11/1881 | See Source »

...even the continual presence of beauty cannot make its power felt in the sordid soul. The attraction that influences yonder natives is not aesthetic truth, but vulgar gossip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FIRST FAMILIES. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

...gossip of the girls, interrupted only for a long, stony stare at the youth, went on with redoubled fervor; but now their theme was the bashfulness and awkwardness of Yung Thing. This subject displeased Loe; she withdrew from the crowd, followed by Sue. These two, sitting apart, conversed in sweet whispers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FIRST FAMILIES. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

...talks of college gossip more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BORES. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

...rare power of producing literary articles of real merit upon interesting subjects. The editorials are not dignified enough for so dignified a paper. There is an element in them which we do not like in an editorial, but which we find appropriate and amusing in the "College Gossip." The Hamilton Lit. is better in its local than in its literary department. The Acta Columbiana is the brightest, raciest, wittiest of our exchanges; but its tone is not always as elevated as we could wish, and its dress is in bad taste. The contrast between the different styles of type...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

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