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
Pardon, Senorita Isabel, Sunday comes not into a pasquinade.
From Remember the Alamo by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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 Isaac Disraeli
On this expedition, some verses were handed about, which probably are now first printed, from a manuscript letter of the times; a political pasquinade which shows the utter silliness of this "Ridiculus Mus."
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
It is an angry pasquinade on an absurd book advocating polygamy on Biblical grounds, by the Rev. Martin Madan, Cowper's quondam spiritual counsellor.
From Cowper by Goldwin Smith
I was bred in the Tory camp; the Tories put me in Parliament and gave me office; I lived with them and liked them; we dined and voted together, and together pasquinaded our opponents.
From Endymion by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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