shindy

Example Sentences

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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 are you kicking up the shindy of such a deuce's own hullabaloo?"

From A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... by Jabberjee, Hurry Bungsho

"My word, though, won't there be a shindy?" said Frederick, laughing.

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie

This shindy must be stopped, or 'twill, I fear, Demoralise the pack!

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, December 10, 1887 by Various