billingsgate

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That was Firebrand Danny Cohn-Bendit, leveling a barrage of billingsgate at Herbert Marcuse, the aging Pied Piper of the New Left, who appeared at Rome's Eliseo Theater to give a lecture, "Beyond the One-Dimensional Man."

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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.

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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.

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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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The appearance is, that her social walk was wide away from the purlieus of common mundane diabolism and billingsgate.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen