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
Oh! yes; there’s been a devil of a shindy.
From The Stronger Influence by F.E. Mills Young
“Why, ye see I was passin’ jes’ after the shindy.
From In Wild Rose Time by Amanda M. Douglas
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
"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
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
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
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
What shindies you used to have with her, Lady Kicklebury!
From The Wolves and the Lamb by William Makepeace Thackeray
