But I couldn't -- and I can't tell you, either, what it's meant to me these two years to believe you were going to marry him, and be told every week by some
busybody that your engagement was on the point of being announced.
Further, we affirmed that justice was doing one's own business, and not being a busybody; we said so again and again, and many others have said the same to us.
If we are asked to determine which of these four qualities by its presence contributes most to the excellence of the State, whether the agreement of rulers and subjects, or the preservation in the soldiers of the opinion which the law ordains about the true nature of dangers, or wisdom and watchfulness in the rulers, or whether this other which I am mentioning, and which is found in children and women, slave and freeman, artisan, ruler, subject,--the quality, I mean, of every one doing his own work, and not being a busybody, would claim the palm--the question is not so easily answered.
So he set out and followed the same road which his brother had done, and met with the same elf, who stopped him at the same spot in the mountains, saying, as before, 'Prince, prince, whither so fast?' 'Mind your own affairs,
busybody!' said the prince scornfully, and rode on.
Some busybody has been reporting my conduct on a certain day.
It was just the right sort of food for the popular gossip that gaunt busybody had been picking up.
There I should have been successful beyond a doubt if some
busybody hadn't sent that cable to her husband.
The reader may set me down as a hopeless
busybody, when I confess how much this man stimulated my curiosity, and how often I endeavoured to break through the reticence which he showed on all that concerned himself.
It was a serious thing to be in the power of this spiteful old
busybody. But his next remark took a weight from my mind.
All at once, yet somehow not so suddenly as to excite suspicion, Raffles had become the elderly
busybody with nerves; why, I could not for the life of me imagine; and the policeman seemed equally at sea.
But Malcolm, who has played the bumbling
busybody for 24 years, visited Corrie's ITV studios in Manchester two weeks ago to discuss a gradual return next year.
But do not kid yourself, our
busybody food police are looking at every opportunity to tax us more, and the sugar tax is just another ploy to take your cash out of your wallet without you noticing.