Once you are sure your child knows what tattling is, try not to pay attention to it when it occurs.

"No fear of my tattling," and the boy smiled curiously to himself as he bent over the book, polishing the brassbound cover.

What does your tattling against Drax prove?

The "tattling of many tongues" in Virginia's Valentine poem was a reference to actual incidents.

The company encourages anonymous tattling.

Before being found by Intensive tattling on him, they rushed back to work distinguishing artificial chems from those native to the environ.

A Case of Tattling?

Worst of all, his tattling has made him the Principal's pet, so the Principal won't lift a finger to discipline him.

They take refuge in the gas chamber where Marge scolds Homer about the lives he ruined with his tattling.

So much so that the culture has become a deranged tattling of competing alarms in which the operative question is, Which can be ignored first?

'Now before we get into anything, ladies, no scratching, no spitting and no tattling to mummy.'

Wisty turns him into a weasel (prompting her to call him the "Tattling Weasel" for the rest of the book), .

Thanks to Martha's ineradicable tattling, the news that the Professor had gone to discover a way to the centre of the earth had spread over the whole civilised world.

SHARON HULBACK has gotten used to hearing her children's tattling.

You are cultured and intelligent, Ivan, and you surely understand that the world is not destroyed by villains and conflagrations, but by hate and malice and all this spiteful tattling.

Mr. Westacott, who says he finds celebrity gossip a bore, even provides a handy flowchart to help the morally aware gossiper navigate the protocol of morally acceptable and unacceptable tattling (see chart above).

SPORTSSUNDAY Tattling in Steroids Case Informers are aiding the inquiry into a steroids case involving the grand jury testimony of top athletes.

Work with your children to set ground rules - like no tattling, hitting, or name-calling, no fighting in the car (or the car pulls over until it stops), and no taking someone else's property without permission.

Such tattling may include retributive memoirs, but, Ms. Roiphe said, it can be as sophisticated and disguised as Jane Austen's criticism of a "cruel marriage market" that resulted in "Pride and Prejudice."

Just how many of the men who stood in Mr. Presser's way to the top were removed by his tattling to the F.B.I. is not detailed in this book, but the implication is that such victims did exist.

There are marvelous touches in "What Remains," including an effort by a state official from the "Bureau of Letterheads" who tries to enlist her to join his institution's "planned program of cultural activities," a form of payment and privilege for doing a little tattling on colleagues who fail to hew to the party line.

But if some of her women knew what was going on, they saw no need to tell tales.

There was no need to tell tales out of turn.

But there was more than his voice to tell tales with.

A girl she could rock and tell tales of days gone by.

His men were sitting around the fire, telling tales of war.

Brown also tells tales of living and working in the country music industry.

It is you who have been telling tales for the most of today.

"Then we are going to teach you not to tell tales."

It is good, however, that neither man will be able to tell tales of what has happened for some time.

But turned and telling tales, or setting him up; who knew?

The Oracle is said to tell tales of the past to give hope for the future.

He was cheating himself and telling tales about the others.

Many tenants told tales of having been out on the streets before.

As for the general telling tales out of school, he can be forgiven.

People in various neighborhoods told tales of days without delivery.

Well, if he was just telling tales then Pike had a few of his own to share.

Pretty soon we were all telling tales about imaginary events that might have happened.

Many of the people had gathered around the fire that night, listening as the old ones told tales.

Red Ron would probably listen, but that's too much like telling tales out of school for me.

The birds and beasts do not tell tales of that sort.

If you wish to drink and tell tales, do so, but quietly.

Pimps were girls who had told tales on them in school.

It wasn't like him to tell tales out of school, or to go outside his own power structure for help.

They had had four days to tell tales around town.

No one can tell tales about him out of school because he'll tell them first.

As such, tattling should not be part of your plan.

She had only the power to tattle on us, and really not even that.

Anyway, even if he tried to tattle on her, no one was home to believe him.

Each player can tattle only twice in a single game.

She should not have paid attention to her cousin's tattling.

He could run and tattle, surely, but there'd be no one to believe him.

There is much more to tattling than issuing a simple news report.

"You're the one who went and tattled to my father.

I would not tattle that he had already missed his first lesson.

"Telling how someone in the family needs help isn't tattling."

She said, in an informative tone, like a little girl tattling.

I could have told him that she'd threatened me, but somehow it seemed like tattling.

Al thinks he can score by tattling on the other guy to the authorities.

But there was no way he was going to tattle.

"You see, they want me to tattle on a friend of mine.

You're not the only one who can tattle little secrets!"

If this girl should tattle, I will never live down the scandal."

I knew too much, you see, and I was not above tattling to get my way.

They'd rather tattle in secret than come smartly forward and tell you what they know.

One of the girls tattled, and she was promptly brought before the tribunal.

Maybe he didn't want to risk running into Cornell, having tattled on him.

Who knew what that troublesome woman might have tattled from her eternal place in the world of the dead.

I feared the answer: I'd soon be dead and couldn't tattle.

So he'd tattled on her some when they were kids and she'd gotten spanked for it.

"Actually, the agreement was just to tattle about you coming to our clubs.

"However, it takes two to make a tattle work, and the second player is usually good old Mom."

Indeed, some tattle of Cambridge life would have been a pleasurable relief.

As far as I know, the only tattle is someone from the home and ladies' page.

The bird uses its Tattle Tail to show what is occurring at the palace.

This was never just about cheap tattle.

Thickening darkness brought the tattle of the river as though it declared that it had seen and heard all.

It's no theme For a morning's tattle.

Fran said that tattle was hardly the word, considering what the man in the West might do to them-if he is a man.

I grant that tattle is often vacuous.

Leave such talk and tattle.

The tattle does 3 damage to anyone scratching, grabbing, teasing, or being grabbed or scratched.

A successful tattle can be dodged by a cower or a successful lick.

Edward, isn't the United Kingdom such a dusty of tattle of country.

A solo artist since 1996, she was previously a member of alternative rock band Tattle Tale.

But she added: "He was a tattle.

'And ruin your bachelor peace with my tattle?

When one of us was mad at another brother all we had to do was tattle; whether the story was true or false didn't matter.

Mr. Tattle and his wife live in Princeton.

He took them back to the perfection tattle, which he lifted quite easily from its position atop the comely engine.

She wasn't sure she could stand sharing taws with this strange tattle man.

As such, tattling should not be part of your plan.

She had only the power to tattle on us, and really not even that.

Anyway, even if he tried to tattle on her, no one was home to believe him.

Each player can tattle only twice in a single game.

She should not have paid attention to her cousin's tattling.

He could run and tattle, surely, but there'd be no one to believe him.

There is much more to tattling than issuing a simple news report.

"You're the one who went and tattled to my father.

I would not tattle that he had already missed his first lesson.

"Telling how someone in the family needs help isn't tattling."

She said, in an informative tone, like a little girl tattling.

I could have told him that she'd threatened me, but somehow it seemed like tattling.

Al thinks he can score by tattling on the other guy to the authorities.

But there was no way he was going to tattle.

"You see, they want me to tattle on a friend of mine.

You're not the only one who can tattle little secrets!"

If this girl should tattle, I will never live down the scandal."

I knew too much, you see, and I was not above tattling to get my way.

They'd rather tattle in secret than come smartly forward and tell you what they know.

One of the girls tattled, and she was promptly brought before the tribunal.

Maybe he didn't want to risk running into Cornell, having tattled on him.

Who knew what that troublesome woman might have tattled from her eternal place in the world of the dead.

I feared the answer: I'd soon be dead and couldn't tattle.

So he'd tattled on her some when they were kids and she'd gotten spanked for it.

"Actually, the agreement was just to tattle about you coming to our clubs.