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

A price of two thousand guldens was set on his head, which gave Vondel cause for another trenchant pasquinade.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

One evil effect of pasquinade and sneer is to put the prospective daughter-in-law on the defensive, and prepare her mind, unconsciously to herself, to regard her future husband's mother as her natural enemy.

From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Harland, Marion

That Goth and Vandal have not wrought more havoc than emperors, people, and popes is recorded in the pasquinade on Urban VIII.

From Rome by Malleson, Hope

I will cry ‘bravo’ to every pasquinade Dickens lets off on that demented class, which cried out every time they saw that buffalo-skin over-coat appear: ‘The Gods have come down to us.’

From Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America by Rocchietti, Joseph