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
Ireland and Scotland were about to set to; Erin was going to fisticuff Gajothel.
From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
But it was beneath the dignity thus outraged, to avenge itself by a vulgar fisticuff, and A—— bethought him of a much better and more honorable course.
From Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States by F.O.C. Darley
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 R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
The good Geoffrey told of his fight, of situations obtained and lost, of fisticuff encounters, of quarrels and blows....
From A Nest of Spies by Marcel Allain
