billingsgate

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

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There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue.

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Turmoil and billingsgate slang were unknown in the halls of legislation.

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll