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