billingsgate

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Baggs' own opposition to the war earned him a barrage of billingsgate from hawks�who in turn received a rubber-stamp reply: "This is not a simple life, my friend, and there are no simple answers."

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In the city whose name has been a synonym for social war and political billingsgate, Champion Deneen warred upon Robert E. Crowe, the State's attorney of Leopold-Loeb fame and Mayor Thompson's entourage.

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The object of all this billingsgate is a devoutly religious�and highly litigious�Quaker who has never been known to fire a shot, lift his fist, or even raise his soft voice in anger.

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The heroic examples of Greek and Roman invective paled before the inexhaustible resources of learned billingsgate stored in the minds of the humanists and theologians.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved