It was said of Moore that he was a man of whose abilities rumour speaks favourably.

"If rumour speaks truly," he whispered, "we are to have a real treat!"

But how was one to deal with men whom one had never seen and was never likely to see, if rumour spoke correctly?

Another less common rumor speaks of a ghost ship of unknown origins.

A contradictory rumor speaks of a whole race of Medusas originating in Atlantis.

You have not even bloodied that sword of yours in her service, if rumor speaks true.

The rumors spoke of a man called Nurash, a war chief of the mountain tribes to the north even of the Rojags.

The rumors had spoken of that.

This, though, is a matter of another sort; for the rumors speak of foul magics.

Not if rumor speaks truly.