But like a great many other Busybodies, she wanted to find out all she could about Peter's affairs, and she thought that the surest way to do it was not to let Peter know that she was about until she had had a chance to use her sharp little eyes all she wanted to.
"Mrs. Peter Rabbit"
Thornton W. Burgess
Every meeting had to be accounted for, or there was no knowing what match-making Busybodies wouldn't say; or, rather, what they would say would be easily guessable by the lowest human insight.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
"Now, I know well that the Commissioners have had you before them; they are tiresome Busybodies.
"By What Authority?"
Robert Hugh Benson