billingsgate
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From Time Magazine Archive
The object of all this billingsgate is a devoutly religious�and highly litigious�Quaker who has never been known to fire a shot, lift his fist, or even raise his soft voice in anger.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a man of great mental endowments, and in the use of invective, often degenerating into billingsgate, he stood without a rival in American journalism.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper
