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He never paused to weigh his words when he assailed an opponent, believing that in politics billingsgate is the gate of success.

Then preachers opened the sluiceways of vituperation and billingsgate upon Colonel Ingersoll for having interceded for a man convicted of mailing obscene literature.

A volley of oaths and river billingsgate followed the remark, and blows which fairly shook the cabin came upon the sturdy panels.

“Rum, alias kill-devil, is as much ador’d by the American English, as a dram of brandy is by an old billingsgate,” &c.

The two women recommenced their billingsgate, the boy stuttered, the soldiers laughed, and the dog howled.