Example Sentences
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It was only such as had reason to dread the secret communication between closet and housetop that feared her tongue; if she spoke loud, she never spoke false, or backbit in the dark.
From Malcolm by MacDonald, George
He was the hero of London society, which adored and backbit him alternately, and he was precisely the man whom the boy Brummell would worship.
From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 by Wharton, Philip
