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
"My word, though, won't there be a shindy?" said Frederick, laughing.
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
People I’ve talked with here say it was a dandy shindy while it lasted.
From The Ranchman by Charles Alden Seltzer
Then he struck at him, and there was a shindy.
From A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
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
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
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
It is getting a big bore, When, with tempers hot as Indies, Heroes smash each other's windies, Pursuing of their shindies about Afric's shore.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 2, 1891 by Various
