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.
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A volley of oaths and river billingsgate followed the remark, and blows which fairly shook the cabin came upon the sturdy panels.
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“Rum, alias kill-devil, is as much ador’d by the American English, as a dram of brandy is by an old billingsgate,” &c.
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The two women recommenced their billingsgate, the boy stuttered, the soldiers laughed, and the dog howled.
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The appearance is, that her social walk was wide away from the purlieus of common mundane diabolism and billingsgate.
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