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

Clement VII. ridiculed by Luther, 76; pasquinade upon, 258.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James

With which terribly severe denunciation the reader may compare the statements of a pasquinade, unsurpassed for pungent wit by any composition of the times, written apparently about a year later.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn

Could there be any thing better than a pasquinade which appeared during the conference upon Italian affairs at Z�rich between the representatives of Austria, Italy, and France?

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James

Cudgelling was at one time used as the remedy in cases of outrageous libel and pasquinade.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James