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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Nor is he shy about lapsing occasionally into the Yorkshire-accented billingsgate that he has perfected over the years in leading T.U.C.'s toughest negotiations�including British Ford's acceptance of unions at Dagenham during World War II.

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There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue.

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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.

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The two women recommenced their billingsgate, the boy stuttered, the soldiers laughed, and the dog howled.

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de