fisticuff
Example Sentences
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It was not often that my siblings had true fights, but when they did, they were monster, one-on-one fisticuff affairs, and Helen had picked the Mount Everest of fighters.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
But one day, to show his own wonderful powers of fisticuff, the king summoned a crowd of his warriors to his palace, and made them form a great ring.
From O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas by Gordon Stables
Ha! a fisticuff fight, with odds—five to one!
From The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure by Mayne Reid
The bigger boy became enraged at this refusal to continue the play, and seemed inclined to resort to fisticuff, but I interposed and put a stop to the affray.
From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Andrew Steinmetz
I'm tired o' being a kick-a-toe and fisticuff to everybody.
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
