It's probably nothing more than small-town gossip anyway," she went on in a rush.

He'd rather play golf . . . Are you interested in all this small-town gossip?

There is gossip that he might be drafted by a professional football team, but it is just that, small-town gossip.

The vices of a small-town gossip, she felt, quite rightly, were virtues in a writer.

Robert has just realized how viciously the small-town gossips might treat Francesca.

Uninformed small-town gossip is malignant and uncontrollable.

Or nothing at all but small-town gossip?

Since I seem to be advancing rapidly, they turn on me like small-town gossips.

Still, in their stories about him some journalists were no better than the small-town gossips.

A true miracle would be a place without small-town gossip and slander, he thought, but kept his snide all the way back to the cottage.