fisticuff

Example Sentences

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It was not often that my siblings had true fights, but when they did, they were monster, one-on-one fisticuff affairs, and Helen had picked the Mount Everest of fighters.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

In no account of this great conflict is any precision observed concerning the pell-mell and fisticuff parts of it.

From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

If many disagreeable occupations, hunger and an occasional fisticuff, may be classed as adventure, then I have had my run of it.

From Parrot & Co. by MacGrath, Harold

How many men are like the clenched fist—pugnacious, disputatious, quarrelsome, always spoiling for a fight; a verbal fisticuff, if not a physical one, is their delight.

From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John

Literature has hitherto glorified serene immobility, ecstasy, and sleep; they will extol aggressive movement, feverish insomnia, the double-quick step, the somersault, the box on the ear, the fisticuff.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James