billingsgate

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While illicit lovers, escaped lunatics and stranded Passion players create bedlam, and soft soap is interspersed with billingsgate, the actress and the producer outham, in an effort to outwit, each other.

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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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Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate.

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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.

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

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de