fracas
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This ball, after turning round and round for a few seconds, burst like a bombshell, and with so much noise that the explosion was distinctly audible above the general FRACAS.
From In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant by Verne, Jules
The appearance of a constable, far from restoring order, was the signal for an uproarious tumult; the FRACAS, as the French artist was heard to declare, promptly developed into a MELEE.
From South Wind by Douglas, Norman
A dozen voices crying simultaneously, "Have a care!" and "Not here! not here!" and all looking the same way, I was able to detect the three principals in the FRACAS.
From From the Memoirs of a Minister of France by Weyman, Stanley John
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