billingsgate

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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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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.

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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.

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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