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
If he comes when the Wakes are on there will be a shindy!...
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
A scout has just come in and tells us the enemy are intrenched about 4 miles off, so that we shall have to-day a shindy of some kind.
From Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James
How shall I make my poor Voice heard ’Midst this brute shindy, brainless, mad?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, October 29, 1887 by Various
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
He gathered from the papers that writers, painters, musicians, were holding shindies almost every night, at which delightful rebels, too busy to occupy themselves with actual creation, talked charmingly about their plans.
From Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley
"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
Those ten centuries are full of lusty fights, victories, vanquishments, quarrels, peacemaking, shindies big and little, rumpus solemn and ridiculous, clouds of dust, regal dust, political dust, and religious dust—you know the way of it.
From The Little Manx Nation - 1891 by Sir Hall Caine
