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
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 Summers, Montague
A pasquinade, comparing his reign to that of Nero, was affixed to the palace gate.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William
It was among the earliest of the terraces in the Park, and its whimsical contrast with the chaster beauties of the adjoining structures soon became the signal for critical pasquinade.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829 by Various
If his friend wishes to bet on the next Pope, he will give him a hint; and now will conclude with the last new pasquinade which has amused the city.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward
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 Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
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