None of whom seem overly concerned about being gutted like a slaughtered lamb on the stone table for tittle-tattling on their neighbours. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)
Craig, how you feel about being gay isn't my interest, but your view that referring to anyone's sexuality is "tittle-tattling" does interest me. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)
Is there not milking-time, when you are going to bed, or kiln-hole, to whistle off these secrets, but you must be tittle-tattling before all our guests? ❋ Unknown (2004)
I heard water tittle-tattling away in deep shadow below. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Anything was possible in such a petty-minded, tittle-tattling place. ❋ Unknown (2003)
But if he lapsed from his own standards by tittle-tattling in school the most likely reason was that his Foreign Office contact was a noted beauty. ❋ Unknown (1999)
'How dare they be tittle-tattling about it before anybody's seen fit to tell our Ruth. ❋ McDermid, Val (1999)
Watching Vavalana careful, however, sly dog, peeping or tittle-tattling for Queen. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1977)
He strikes me as being a very commonplace kind of military man, tittle-tattling, idle, and unintellectual; and in the habit of filling up every interval of life with brandy and soda water. ❋ Madame Sarah Grand (N/A)
While you've been tittle-tattling I've been doing, -- listen to what this bobby's got to say. ' ❋ Richard Marsh (N/A)
I didn't think Mrs Clay was the sort of person to go tittle-tattling -- she can please herself; but it doesn't concern you if I do put on airs. ❋ Miles Franklin (1916)
It wasn't as if she would get any harm out of the talk; she knew as well as everyone else in the village that she (Mrs. Brown) was no idle gossip, tittle-tattling over other people's affairs. ❋ Unknown (1894)
Mr Cargrim, by his late tittle-tattling conversation, had fallen in her good opinion; and she was not going to let him off without ❋ Fergus Hume (1895)
Sir Galahad, my dear -- Sir Galahad rides and fights in the land that lies beyond the sunset, far enough away from this noisy little earth where you and I spend much of our time tittle-tattling, flirting, wearing fine clothes, and going to shows. ❋ Unknown (1893)
Though there were thus two reasons for public interest, the result was one and the same -- a constant tittle-tattling. ❋ George Douglas Brown (1885)
"Charity rejoiceth not in iniquity," but charity is not to be found in that tittle-tattling, excited crowd of talkers. ❋ Unknown (1879)
