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

Only a Petrel, I, But when my form you spy,— Look out for shindy.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 12th 1893 by Various

I recollect another shindy I had when attending the traps.

From The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier by Drayson, A.W.

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