shindy
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Bennett in-laws and ex-s turned up at Manhattan's glittery El Morocco, opened the nightclub shindy season.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Turks would treat any attacker to a first-rate shindy.
From Time Magazine Archive
This shindy must be stopped, or 'twill, I fear, Demoralise the pack!
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, December 10, 1887 by Various
“To oblige me by not mentioning this little shindy to any one—will you?”
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
If he comes when the Wakes are on there will be a shindy!...
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
Our dress was costly; not that it had much lace and gold on it, but that, what between falling on the road at night, shindies at mess, and other devilment, a coat lasted no time.
From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever
He also scented some rare shindies in the game Yaspard was playing, and Harry, seeing that the situation was an awkward one, agreed.
From Viking Boys by Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby
The people are too deeply interested in football, starting prices, rates, public parks, sliding scales, excursions to Blackpool, and municipal shindies, to concern themselves with organists as such.
From The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Arnold Bennett
What shindies you used to have with her, Lady Kicklebury!
From The Wolves and the Lamb by William Makepeace Thackeray
Marks, shindies, prayers and punishments, all flavoured with the leathery stuffiness of time-worn Big Hall....
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
