Why, not many weeks ago I was in a far tighter place than this last little shindy of ours, and narrowly escaped with my life at the hands of the latter.
The saloons drove literally a roaring trade, for the shindy that went on in them as the night wore on, and their habitues waxed livelier, was something indescribable.
The hardest task will be to cure him of his love for fighting," added Chester; "he can get up a first class shindy in ten minutes, no matter where he is placed.
Besides, I'm nothing of a boxer, and if I were should hate a shindy just as much.
Holroyd was proud of his big dynamo, and expatiated upon its size and power to Azuma-zi until heaven knows what odd currents of thought that and the incessant whirling and shindy set up within the curly black cranium.
I was in a deuce of a stew about that for hours, as it seemed, until the shindy of the arrival began.
Why, that somehow or other you were at the bottom of that shindywhen all the troops were turned out on a false alarm.
There is a shindy in the town, your honour," he said to the colonel.
There was a freight-conductor named Jackson that he had a shindy with in Mr. Ferguson's time, and it came to blows.
I'd have him safe under lock and key before the shindy begins to-night, if it was my job.
We showed the law great respect, though, after the shindy was over; called him sergeant and offered to support him in maintaining the peace.
Let's strike the grub; that Tree shindy has made me ravenous.
The moving galley's bow was plunking them back through their own oarholes, and I could hear the devil of a shindyin the decks below.
I was on me way from Uncle Elk's cabin whin the smoke of this camp caused me to turn aside, wid the result that I'd been mixed up in the biggest shindy of me life if ye hadn't took it in yer head to spoil the picnic.
