talebearer
taleteller

"I don't mean to be a talebearer or unduly troublesome."

Will you listen to every talebearer who tries to split us apart for reasons of his own?"

Mrs. Wilson, mother of Wilson children and a talebearer like her daughter.

And we will have suppers once a month both to do honour unto Talebearer and to promote her interest.

Nor do I expect you to play the jailer or the spy or the talebearer of her confidences.

Nobody could call him a detractor or a backbiter or a talebearer or a liar.

Nicolas might well have been a spy-perhaps even so Halwice-but she was no talebearer and never had been.

"Blackening people's names, especially when the talebearer wishes to stay anonymous, will not get anyone anywhere in our archdiocese," Cardinal Wetter warned.

At St. Teath, where I stayed so often with a writer friend, the motto of the parish church is, "A straw for a talebearer."

Carminow - Cala rag whethlow (A straw for the talebearer)

His name was Damon Rhys, and his novel Talebearer had just won the Pulitzer Prize.

Hast not thou Held counsel--played the talebearer whose tales Bear plague abroad and poison, knowing not how - Not with my wife nor brother?

Further she promised, "I will not lie, I will not steal,I will not curse, I will not be a talebearer."

Moreover, Samokhvalov, tired of the wave of love letters, tells about the situation to the meddlesome Shura, a local labor union committee activist and the biggest talebearer in the office.

At around noon she had stopped at Book City on Hollywood Boulevard and scanned the used-book racks until she found a paperback copy of Damon's old novel Talebearer.

And at the suppers and the rites of Talebearer each member is to drop an anonymous opinion of some other member's character into a common letter box, and the president shall read them out.

And in Leviticus, Moses warns his people, "Do not go up and down as a talebearer among your people" (although, as many have observed, that is probably the least observed of the Torah's 613 commandments).

In the Bible the equivalent words are: dibbah, meaning "talk" in a sinister sense; rakhil, the "merchandise" of gossip with which the talebearer goes about; and ragal, a verb, denoting the "peddling" of slander.

Here is the entire crappy incident in a nut shell, as follows: Mr. Nelson, a born neophile and enthusiastic talebearer and gossip, is in utter charge of the mess hall, as already related, along with Mrs. Nelson, a termagant, unhappy woman, and inspired trouble maker.

The beauty of this sentence is not at first appreciable, for though self-deceit and self-satisfaction are both very powerfully demonstrated in it, and though these are some of the society's most vehement supporters, yet it is the good goddess Talebearer who nourisheth the seed of mischief thus sown.

"You speak like a master taleteller," he said in pleasant deceit.

The tradition of the Southern taleteller is so well established that you merely have to invoke it to embody it.

Lucy, in her most obvious guise, is a stock character, an inexhaustible taleteller who won't let go of your sleeve.

The Weirds end violently, although the taleteller never seems to lose his equilibrium: This is the way it was, and he is our eyewitness.

A player, a singer, a taleteller-" "And a great fool," Tyrion finished.

About the Author "I think of myself in the oral tradition - of a troubadour, a village taleteller, the man in the shadows of the campfire.

One winesodden taleteller even claimed that Rhaegar Targaryen had returned from the dead and was marshaling a vast host of ancient heroes on Dragonstone to reclaim his father's throne.

But the taleteller had a more sinuous mind than the polemicist, and the sad effect of Gilmour's thesis is to make Kipling a less interesting figure than most careful readers now find him to be.

"Like a medieval chronicler with the eye of a poet and the heart of a taleteller, he fits together radiant fragments into a wholly new kind of construct," the author Guy Davenport once wrote of Mr. Metcalf.

My best to you all, Beau L'Amour Los Angeles, California November 1992 ABOUT LOUIS L'AMOUR "/ think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village taleteller, the man in the shadows of the campfire.