shindy
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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
If I'm spotted there can only be a shindy.
From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
"Knock at the door, of course, and pull the bell, and dance a break-down on the steps, and make a shindy generally, so as to let 'em know we've come."
From A Hero of Romance by Richard Marsh
And so Tay Pay transgressed the bounds of taste, And led to shameful shindy.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 5th 1893 by Various
Marks, shindies, prayers and punishments, all flavoured with the leathery stuffiness of time-worn Big Hall....
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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 Charles James Lever
"It's always new-comers as stirs up shindies," growled a miner who, having reached the surface a few minutes earlier, formed one of the expectant group.
From The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines by W. A. (William Allen) Rogers
He also scented some rare shindies in the game Yaspard was playing, and Harry, seeing that the situation was an awkward one, agreed.
From Viking Boys by Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby
He gathered from the papers that writers, painters, musicians, were holding shindies almost every night, at which delightful rebels, too busy to occupy themselves with actual creation, talked charmingly about their plans.
From Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley
