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 best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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Mrs. Huxley was rebuked because she, her husband and some other delegates had shown their disgust at the billingsgate of the pro-Communist intellectuals, who formed a majority of the stacked meeting.
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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.
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Amid sounds of a scuffle and the continuous outpouring of billingsgate the light over the garage door flashed on suddenly and disclosed Flynn in the act of precipitating himself into the fray.
From Lady Larkspur by Nicholson, Meredith
