billingsgate

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On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.

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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.

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In the city whose name has been a synonym for social war and political billingsgate, Champion Deneen warred upon Robert E. Crowe, the State's attorney of Leopold-Loeb fame and Mayor Thompson's entourage.

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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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The prolongation of the billingsgate in the contest between Cleon and the sausage-seller grows wearisome to modern taste; but the portrait of the Demagogue is for all time.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright