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 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
With which terribly severe denunciation the reader may compare the statements of a pasquinade, unsurpassed for pungent wit by any composition of the times, written apparently about a year later.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn
Clement VII. ridiculed by Luther, 76; pasquinade upon, 258.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James
I told him, he shou'd not try to pasquinade the Source of his Poesy.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
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