shindy
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The Turks would treat any attacker to a first-rate shindy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bennett in-laws and ex-s turned up at Manhattan's glittery El Morocco, opened the nightclub shindy season.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why, not many weeks ago I was in a far tighter place than this last little shindy of ours, and narrowly escaped with my life at the hands of the latter.”
From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Bertram Mitford
People I’ve talked with here say it was a dandy shindy while it lasted.
From The Ranchman by Charles Alden Seltzer
For my part I don’t believe there’ll be a shindy at all.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
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
"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
What shindies you used to have with her, Lady Kicklebury!
From The Wolves and the Lamb by William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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
