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
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)
That motto from the prologue to Persius' book of satires might be inscribed on the title-page of Gozzi's pasquinade.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
One evil effect of pasquinade and sneer is to put the prospective daughter-in-law on the defensive, and prepare her mind, unconsciously to herself, to regard her future husband's mother as her natural enemy.
From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Harland, Marion
A price of two thousand guldens was set on his head, which gave Vondel cause for another trenchant pasquinade.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
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