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Meanwhile, Amelia Simpson had been imparting a budget of Oldchester news.

From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

Presently Count Bunker, who had been imparting the most terrific particulars of former interviews with the Wraith to the younger Galloshes, remarked that he must pass the time by overtaking some pressing correspondence.

From Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large by Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer)

Her face was crimson, and she winked hard to keep the tears of vexed shame back—for the faces of the loungers told her that Tommy had been imparting other confidences.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

She made him stay to dinner, and Du Meresq, who thought things were looking up, gladly dismissed his Hansom, which had been imparting an unwonted appearance of dissipation to the locality for the last hour.

From Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, Mrs. George Croft