billingsgate

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The object of all this billingsgate is a devoutly religious�and highly litigious�Quaker who has never been known to fire a shot, lift his fist, or even raise his soft voice in anger.

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Mrs. Huxley was rebuked because she, her husband and some other delegates had shown their disgust at the billingsgate of the pro-Communist intellectuals, who formed a majority of the stacked meeting.

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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.

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Otherwise there might have been heard something approaching to billingsgate.

From Active Service by Crane, Stephen