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
And have a fisticuff which would appear 200 in every newspaper in the world?
From The Place of Honeymoons by Arthur Ignatius Keller
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
The bigger boy became enraged at this refusal to continue the play, and seemed inclined to resort to fisticuff, but I interposed and put a stop to the affray.
From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Andrew Steinmetz
But one day, to show his own wonderful powers of fisticuff, the king summoned a crowd of his warriors to his palace, and made them form a great ring.
From O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas by Gordon Stables
