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
It's claws are showing, and they may want clipping, And shindy in the streets is just a pest; But Law, though lately once or twice found tripping, Won't interfere with the calm Civic nest.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, Nov. 11, 1887 by Various
Down by the square one day I saw an old boy in white ducks and a sun helmet having a shindy with the sentry at the barracks.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
Most up to the boss in a shindy, now, wasn’t she?
From In Wild Rose Time by Amanda M. Douglas
"It's always new-comers as stirs up shindies," growled a miner who, having reached the surface a few minutes earlier, formed one of the expectant group.
From The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines by W. A. (William Allen) Rogers
They've put up several very nasty little shindies at one place or another.
From Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys by John McElroy
I have been sorry since, for I suspect it was a Home Rule meeting, and Limerick has a great reputation for shindies.
From The Charm of Ireland by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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
