billingsgate

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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery 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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Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate.

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

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Lodge's reply was a fair sample of the literary billingsgate of that controversial age and deserves the oblivion into which it promptly sank.

From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Baldwin, Edward Chauncey