He often complained of the insults, ribaldry, billingsgate, and Bear-garden language to which he was exposed; and some of his biographers have taken these lamentations seriously, and expressed their regret that so good a man should have been so much persecuted.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
The energy of the fishwomen in their efforts to trade with all comers, accompanied by loud expressions and vociferous exclamations, led us to think that there might be a Finnish billingsgate as well as an English.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
In billingsgate fish-market it has been a regulation that salesmen shall fix up in a conspicuous place every morning a statement of the kind and amount of their stock; and such a regulation, whenever it could be enforced on other markets, would always be to the advantage of every one except a few traders."
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae