billingsgate
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From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gleason merely settles in for an extended Honeymooners skit, swinging on the billingsgate with his wife and rolling fried-egg eyes skyward at every silence.
From Time Magazine Archive
One must sometimes stand speechless before a subject, else burn his lips with blasphemy or befoul them with billingsgate.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper
