gossiphood

Example Sentences

• "XV. Where Challenge may be for affinity to the party or to bis kinſman , or alley of the party, and how it may be pleaded, and ſor Goſſiphood."
• "The gossiphood is the only guarantee of any connexion with the later märchen."
• "[…] whereat the Bergomask fell into a mad fit of jealousy and forbade Zanina to call the soldier gossip or to speak with him ; insomuch that he would have had her break her sacred bond of gossiphood."
• "These are that once fellow-feeling is recognized, its scope will tend to expand as more and more affinities are discovered, here for example those of neighborhood, gossiphood, etc.;"
• "[…] while my Lord Storford had already approved himself too staunch a knight, too honourable a gentleman, and too graceful a courtier, for much surprise to await the Lady Mildred's second choice, either in the prattling gossiphood of the shire of Gloucester, or the more solemn discussions of the antechambers of Westminster."
• "[…] for Dr. May had such a great inclination to scramble up the ladder after them, that she, thinking it a dangerous experiment for so helpless an arm, was obliged to assure him that it would create a sensation among the gossiphood of Stoneborough, if their physician were seen disporting himself on the top of the house."