shindy

Example Sentences

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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

“To oblige me by not mentioning this little shindy to any one—will you?”

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram

Would you believe it, sorr, the very next day after you were gone, Imbono's men and Mboyo's men began to quarrel; 'twas Orange and Green, sorr, and a fine shindy.

From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Strang, Herbert

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 James, Henry