pasquinade

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Excerpt from Author Feuchtwanger's pasquinade: He opened up his checkbook to the sky But the sky showed no expression.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the end of this document is added a copy of a pasquinade which appeared at that time in Manila, lampooning the governor and his adherents.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 by Blair, Emma Helen

As this pasquinade made a great noise in Rome, the Pope offered a considerable sum of money to any person that should discover the author of it.

From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan

Could there be any thing better than a pasquinade which appeared during the conference upon Italian affairs at Z�rich between the representatives of Austria, Italy, and France?

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James

Charles II. feared the attempt of desperate men; and he might have forgiven Rochester a loose pasquinade, but not Cowley a solemn invocation.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac