pasquinade
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Excerpt from Author Feuchtwanger's pasquinade: He opened up his checkbook to the sky But the sky showed no expression.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I told him, he shou'd not try to pasquinade the Source of his Poesy.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
If his friend wishes to bet on the next Pope, he will give him a hint; and now will conclude with the last new pasquinade which has amused the city.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward
The poetical form in which this pasquinade is written dates from an early period in Castile.
The inscription, a very poor one, excited considerable ridicule, and a pasquinade was circulated lamenting the absence of the nine Muses on the occasion of its composition.
From Cuba Past and Present by Davey, Richard
I was bred in the Tory camp; the Tories put me in Parliament and gave me office; I lived with them and liked them; we dined and voted together, and together pasquinaded our opponents.
From Endymion by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
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