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Madame Selarne was in a gossipy mood and they found many mutual acquaintances.

Toward the shaven monk who trudged along with his cowl tilted back and the sweat washing down his fat jowls, the coal-burner was deeply reverent; to the gentleman he was abject; with the small farmer and the free mechanic he was cordial and gossipy; and when a slave passed by with a counte- nance respectfully lowered, this chap's nose was in the air -- he couldn't even see him.

And I don't think a whole lot of those gossipy old porpoises either.

"What is the news?" said the gossipy tinker, pricking up his ear; "I am a tinker by trade, Middle by name, and come from over against Banbury."

By apparently careless and purposeless questioning I learned from my gossipy landlady that the young woman's bedroom adjoined my own, a party-wall between.

"Ned writes good, gossipy letters I taught him how and he tells me all that 's going on.

He's led his gossipy neighbour to believe he has cancer and people are stopping me in the street to commiserate.

This breezy, even gossipy account of two centuries of alpine adventure is a good introduction to the vast literature on the topic.

STARS IN MY EYES by Don Bachardy (The University of Wisconsin Press, $34,95) An astute portraitist as well as the life partner of the late Christopher Isherwood, Bachardy also shows a great memory for gossipy detail in his anecdotes about the celebrities--including Bette Davis--who sat for him.

If he comes over in public as he does in private - a jokey, gossipy, football-mad family guy - then he'll knock David Cameron off his bike.

The life of a high-school freshman princess, it seems, is fraught with peril--and also with lots of funny and gossipy details about boys, dresses, and famous people: Martha Stewart helps Mia with her Halloween costume, for example.

A quarrelsome, gossipy lot, these writers are the real focus of our interest as we read, partly because Picano has gleefully cast his colleagues--men we've come to know as heroic messengers of the good gay word--as slightly smarmy old queens.