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

A pasquinade, comparing his reign to that of Nero, was affixed to the palace gate.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William

Charles II. feared the attempt of desperate men; and he might have forgiven Rochester a loose pasquinade, but not Cowley a solemn invocation.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

If, as the old pasquinade had it the Barbarini did what the Barbarians did not, how much worse than barbarians have these modern civilizers done!

From Don Orsino by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

Percival responded with a sharp newspaper pasquinade, entitled "A Lecture on Nosology."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various