billingsgate

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

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

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

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They exhausted the vocabulary of billingsgate in denouncing those guilty of this most henious of all sins, and charged them in plain terms, with being afraid to investigate or to discuss the subject.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.