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

And the little pasquinade is so curious, and will fill a gap in that fine collection so nicely!

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill

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 Gozzi, Carlo

If, as the old pasquinade had it the Barbarini did what the Barbarians did not, how much worse than barbarians have these modern civilizers done!

From Don Orsino by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

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