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Burney mentions a report that Hawkins had been slandering Johnson.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by Boswell, James

Besides, we know that Essex, and after him Cecil and Henry Howard, had been slandering Raleigh basely to James.

From Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Kingsley, Charles

Perhaps the usurer had been slandering his friend.

From The Widow Lerouge by Gaboriau, Émile

He had a vague idea of some judgment descending upon them all from this great man whom they had been slandering.

From The Debtor A Novel by Stevens, William Dodge