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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Nor is he shy about lapsing occasionally into the Yorkshire-accented billingsgate that he has perfected over the years in leading T.U.C.'s toughest negotiations�including British Ford's acceptance of unions at Dagenham during World War II.
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The appearance is, that her social walk was wide away from the purlieus of common mundane diabolism and billingsgate.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen
