pasquil

How to use pasquil in a sentence

• This humorous pasquil has been generally supposed to have been written by Sir John, as a banter upon himself.

  Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume II (of 3) | Thomas Percy

• The zeal of the Scottish reformers was at its height, and this zeal found vent in many a pasquil discharged at Popery.

  A Book of Ballads, Volume 1 | Various

• She accepted it jocularly as a “pasquil,” and Knox on his departure was condemned and burned in effigy.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 8 | Various

• A pasquil on the Commander in Chief, or a tirade against the Government, was sure to be eagerly read and warmly approved of.

  Russia | Donald Mackenzie Wallace

• One of pasquil's Jests is "how mad Coomes, when his wife was drowned, sought her against the stream."

  Shakespeare Jest-Books; | Unknown