billingsgate
Example Sentences
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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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The two women recommenced their billingsgate, the boy stuttered, the soldiers laughed, and the dog howled.
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The appearance is, that her social walk was wide away from the purlieus of common mundane diabolism and billingsgate.
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Their weapons were “loathsome billingsgate and brutality,” and “sublime bathos.”
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Turmoil and billingsgate slang were unknown in the halls of legislation.
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