Like most great processes of art, this is an adoption and perfecting of habits usual with the most inartistic people-a turning to good account of the interminably circumstantial superfluities of the common gossip and newsmonger.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
And it was due in some measure to Oline that things had turned out no worse; so earnest was she in trying to secure a small remainder for herself that she dragged to light forgotten items that she, as gossip and newsmonger for years, remembered still, or matters outstanding which others would have passed over on purpose, to avoid causing unpleasantness to respectable fellow-citizens.
"Growth of the Soil"
Knut Hamsun
The observer suffered for this; he was a wealthy citizen, and great newsmonger, and one who haunted Paul's Walk.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)"
Isaac Disraeli