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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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.

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

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The appearance is, that her social walk was wide away from the purlieus of common mundane diabolism and billingsgate.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen