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

In no account of this great conflict is any precision observed concerning the pell-mell and fisticuff parts of it.

From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

But it was beneath the dignity thus outraged, to avenge itself by a vulgar fisticuff, and A—— bethought him of a much better and more honorable course.

From Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States by Darley, F.O.C.

Ha! a fisticuff fight, with odds—five to one!

From The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure by Reid, Mayne

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 Stables, Gordon