Word: brawls
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...Homeric brawl with the London watch...
Symptoms, in the beginning, are those which attend the incubation of various diseases-irregular fever dizziness, hyperaesthesia of the skin, pains in the arms and legs, loss of sexual power. Forebodings appals the sufferer; faceless shapes of doom brawl in his mind; ulcers corrupt his arms; his skin greys; his eyebrows, loosened, overhang his eyes like disheveled blinds; while his voice shrinks and becomes raucous, as if he contended for possession of it with an evil spirit. Little by little, as his body rots, an odor pervades it, more deathly and infinitely more revolting than that of the carnal house...
...improving bad boys. "We will make knights of them," it decided, thereupon founded the "Knighthood of Youth" (or "The Order of Character"). These knights do not curse and hold wassail; they do not devote themselves to the performance of high-flown absurdities in the interests of their ladies, brawl with one another with dangerous implements; there is no reveling about any table, round or otherwise; no spurring of jaded stallions; no wearing of women's garters on the cap. On the contrary, these are knights in name only. They are encouraged to perform deeds of honesty, kindness to animals, thrift...
...knows, is a queenly lady "tall as a tall church candle" (TIME, Jan. 5). Mr. Gigli, whenever he sings with her, must swell his cockerel bosom, look to his biceps if he would be seen to play the man. In the last act of Fedora, hero and heroine meet, brawl; the latter is hurled to the ground. Gigli was determined to acquit himself well. Fiercely he struggled against the onslaught of Jeritza, flung her from him as prescribed; but ah! too boisterous was the fling. Headlong went she, to land in the glass and metal of the footlights, spraining...
...that turbulent country ruled over by Amir Amanullah Khan, was sentenced to death an Italian engineer. He became implicated in a brawl in Kabul, the capital. The police tried to arrest him. The engineer defied them. The police persisted. The engineer shot, killed a Bobby. Finally, the engineer surrendered, was tried, was condemned to death...