billingsgate
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Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate.
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Baggs' own opposition to the war earned him a barrage of billingsgate from hawks�who in turn received a rubber-stamp reply: "This is not a simple life, my friend, and there are no simple answers."
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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.
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He never paused to weigh his words when he assailed an opponent, believing that in politics billingsgate is the gate of success.
From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Matthews, Brander
