1 A rumour went round that Snowball had after all contrived to introduce poison into Napoleon's food.
2 Late one evening in the summer, a sudden rumour ran round the farm that something had happened to Boxer.
3 And sure enough, the rumour was true.
4 It had come to his knowledge, he said, that a foolish and wicked rumour had been circulated at the time of Boxer's removal.
5 Small sounds carried far; domestic sounds out of the houses were clearly audible on either side of the roadway; and the rumour of the approach of any passenger preceded him by a long time.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE 6 Well, my dear boy, Marshall from Fillingwood asked me, that's all I can say about a rumour.
7 A most scandalous, ill-natured rumour has just reached me, and I write, dear Fanny, to warn you against giving the least credit to it, should it spread into the country.
8 As no scandalous, ill-natured rumour had reached her, it was impossible for her to understand much of this strange letter.
9 With the next morning, there came a rumour, that two men and a boy were in the cage at Kingston, who had been apprehended over night under suspicious circumstances; and to Kingston Messrs.
10 She longed to see the Crofts; but when the meeting took place, it was evident that no rumour of the news had yet reached them.
11 The reddleman's hint that rumour might show her to disadvantage had no permanent terror for Eustacia.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 12 In the evening her grandfather came indoors with a rumour that Yeobright had removed that day from Alderworth to the old house at Blooms-End.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated 13 He loved to lie in the very centre of five millions of people, with his filaments stretching out and running through them, responsive to every little rumour or suspicion of unsolved crime.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box 14 My father is dead and gone," answered Telemachus, "and even if some rumour reaches me I put no more faith in it now.
15 I began to cherish hopes I had no right to conceive: that the match was broken off; that rumour had been mistaken; that one or both parties had changed their minds.