magpie

The little rail-enclosed plots that lay between the pavements and the hotels were magpied with torn paper […]

[…] she liked to be able to have a picturesque fact or two with which to support herself when she too, to hold attention, wanted to issue moving statements as to revolutions, anarchies and strife in the offing. And she had noticed that when she magpied Tietjens’ conversations more serious men in responsible positions were apt to argue with her and to pay her more attention than before....

He knew how people were magpieing with their malicious chatter that she had committed the cardinal sin of believing love was permanent […]