billingsgate

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He never paused to weigh his words when he assailed an opponent, believing that in politics billingsgate is the gate of success.

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Then preachers opened the sluiceways of vituperation and billingsgate upon Colonel Ingersoll for having interceded for a man convicted of mailing obscene literature.

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A volley of oaths and river billingsgate followed the remark, and blows which fairly shook the cabin came upon the sturdy panels.

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“Rum, alias kill-devil, is as much ador’d by the American English, as a dram of brandy is by an old billingsgate,” &c.

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The two women recommenced their billingsgate, the boy stuttered, the soldiers laughed, and the dog howled.

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