shindy

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All their duty but to make Shindy day and night, Now with throats of thunder, Now with clattering lips, While she thumps them cruelly With stretched finger-tips.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891 by Various

What can excel the telling of the story of Captain Shindy at his club,—which is, I must own, as true as it is graphic.

From Thackeray by Trollope, Anthony

Captain Shindy, the Snob, does not tell us so plainly what is not a gentleman as does Colonel Newcome what is.

From Thackeray by Trollope, Anthony

Even Shindy probably had some feeling for the poor woman he left at home.

From Thackeray by Trollope, Anthony

"Poor Mrs. Shindy and the children are, meanwhile, in dingy lodgings somewhere, waited upon by a charity girl in pattens."

From Thackeray by Trollope, Anthony