billingsgate
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Mrs. Huxley was rebuked because she, her husband and some other delegates had shown their disgust at the billingsgate of the pro-Communist intellectuals, who formed a majority of the stacked meeting.
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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.
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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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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 Charles Paul de Kock
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