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
That motto from the prologue to Persius' book of satires might be inscribed on the title-page of Gozzi's pasquinade.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
The Roundheads, a masterly pasquinade, shows the Puritans, near ancestors of the Whigs, in their most odious and veritable colours.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I by Montague Summers
Cudgelling was at one time used as the remedy in cases of outrageous libel and pasquinade.
From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by James Hogg
Percival responded with a sharp newspaper pasquinade, entitled "A Lecture on Nosology."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various
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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