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billingsgate

[bil-ingz-geyt, -git] / ˈbɪl ɪŋzˌgeɪt, -gɪt /


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

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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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I have no doubt that, if it could have been interpreted, it would have been proven the rankest and most voluble billingsgate ever uttered.

From Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs by Fuertes, Louis Agassiz




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