billingsgate

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

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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.

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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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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