billingsgate
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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.
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While illicit lovers, escaped lunatics and stranded Passion players create bedlam, and soft soap is interspersed with billingsgate, the actress and the producer outham, in an effort to outwit, each other.
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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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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
