billingsgate

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Mrs. Huxley was rebuked because she, her husband and some other delegates had shown their disgust at the billingsgate of the pro-Communist intellectuals, who formed a majority of the stacked meeting.

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There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue.

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On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.

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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.

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I have no doubt that, if it could have been interpreted, it would have been proven the rankest and most voluble billingsgate ever uttered.

From Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs by Fuertes, Louis Agassiz