shindy
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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
"My word, though, won't there be a shindy?" said Frederick, laughing.
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie
It is the granddaughter's birthday, and there was a regular shindy about who was going to be asked.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
Well, the morning after you went there was a rare shindy, as you may imagine, when they found your manger empty.
From Swift and Sure by Strang, Herbert
I have been sorry since, for I suspect it was a Home Rule meeting, and Limerick has a great reputation for shindies.
From The Charm of Ireland by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
They've put up several very nasty little shindies at one place or another.
From Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys by McElroy, John
Our dress was costly; not that it had much lace and gold on it, but that, what between falling on the road at night, shindies at mess, and other devilment, a coat lasted no time.
From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Lever, Charles James
What shindies you used to have with her, Lady Kicklebury!
From The Wolves and the Lamb by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Those ten centuries are full of lusty fights, victories, vanquishments, quarrels, peacemaking, shindies big and little, rumpus solemn and ridiculous, clouds of dust, regal dust, political dust, and religious dust—you know the way of it.
From The Little Manx Nation - 1891 by Caine, Hall, Sir
