pasquinade

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• Harvard College, writing a pasquinade to post upon the Ipswich meeting-house, and Nashaway was "suffered to live without the meanes," waiting for him until 1654. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885
• He repeated a kind of doggrel pasquinade, beginning with -- Tales and Novels — Volume 10
• 'pasquinade' as shall take you into these Holy of Holy purlieus of mischief and money-making, you will deserve to be chief of the Temporal Power
• I mean, assuming the "New Yorker Cartoon Law of Biting Satire", which states that the jocularity of a particular pasquinade is directly proportional to the abstruseness of the language in which you couch it, it was hilarious. JERRY BRUCKHEIMER’S LAWS OF SCIENCE
• One of the most famous of these ‘pasquinades’ neatly demonstrates how much Romans care about their heritage, for all their apparent nonchalance.
• A mountaineer therefore in Avaria or Koomookha who considered himself aggrieved by a decision of his khan, and who dared not complain openly, could relieve his outraged feelings only by inventing and setting afloat an anonymous pasquinade. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
• Lucy, his treatment must have been galling and humiliating; for it so wrought upon his spirit as to produce a rough pasquinade, which was affixed to the park gate at Charlecot. 43 43 The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
• His pasquinade's origins come from his exploration of what he calls the memoir culture.
• Luther at first took it seriously for a forgery -- a mere pasquinade -- until he was assured by the Elector of the genuineness of this and another and similar letter, and thus provoked to take public steps against it. Life of Luther
• This famous act of vandalism by Urban VIII inspired the famous pasquinade: Quod non fecerunt barbari fecerunt Barberini. It Was the Roof