And the worthy woman was really-if her son could only have got his eyes freed from the scales of domestic superstition, and seen it-intensely happy and exultant at this fiendish little piece of discomfort-mongering.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Besides, here I am alone in your studio in Bayreuth, the most scandal-mongering town I ever heard of.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
A sea of strange countenances encompassed her, and now and again when some particularly murky wave rolled by, a wave of men whose faces bespoke all the crimes of money-mongering, she and the Marquis exchanged glances of deep sadness.
"Paris From the "Three Cities""
Emile Zola