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
As this pasquinade made a great noise in Rome, the Pope offered a considerable sum of money to any person that should discover the author of it.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan
But how are we to understand the uses of the pasquinade Hymn?
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew
Clement VII. ridiculed by Luther, 76; pasquinade upon, 258.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James
The Roundheads, a masterly pasquinade, shows the Puritans, near ancestors of the Whigs, in their most odious and veritable colours.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I by Summers, Montague
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