billingsgate
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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.
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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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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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Mrs. Huxley was rebuked because she, her husband and some other delegates had shown their disgust at the billingsgate of the pro-Communist intellectuals, who formed a majority of the stacked meeting.
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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 Charles Paul de Kock
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