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  • With quietness they work - Μετα ἡσυχιας· With silence; leaving their tale-bearing and officious intermeddling.

    The Value of Real Work 2008

  • With quietness they work - Μετα ἡσυχιας· With silence; leaving their tale-bearing and officious intermeddling.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • One way that this tension and quarrelling is produced, is through her own tale-bearing.

    For Young Girls and Teens 2005

  • In vain did he attempt to extricate himself from the consequences of his tale-bearing.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • In vain did he attempt to extricate himself from the consequences of his tale-bearing.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • One way that this tension and quarrelling is produced, is through her own tale-bearing.

    Archive 2005-04-01 2005

  • In vain did he attempt to extricate himself from the consequences of his tale-bearing.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • In vain did he attempt to extricate himself from the consequences of his tale-bearing.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • But you recollect a certain fat lad, son of the schoolmaster, whom Sir Richard punished for tale-bearing three years before, by sending him, not to Coventry, but to Oxford.

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • In vain did he attempt to extricate himself from the consequences of his tale-bearing.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

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