Barroom ruckus

Usage examples of brawl.

After fourteen stormy years the two friends, who more than any others were responsible for the launching of the Third Retch, for its terror and its degradation, who though they had often disagreed had stood together in the moments of crisis and defeats and disappointments, had come to a parting of the ways, and the scar-faced, brawling battler for Hitler and Nazism had come to the end of his violent life.

If I leave them they start brangling and brawling and nothing gets done.

If we are but brawling bravos in this land, where will it find peace but in the iron grip of the last tyrant left standing?

Swamped by brawling bodies, Jasmine the druid, never comfortable indoors, found herself stranded as a fish out of water.

Josi had seen enough of the brawling man to understand just how devastating that fight might become.

Fighting and brawling had always been part of the culture of Fenris, and it seemed to be doing the lads good to be able to vent their frustrations in this way.

In short, sir, I swear to you that I will have you arrested, and marched out of the place, to prevent any further brawling on your part.

Going a little to one side, the hillsman pushed through a thick hedge of bushes, rolled away a rock, and disclosed an opening which led down a steep and rough-hewn way to a great misty valley beneath, where was never a bridle-path or causeway over the brawling streams and boulders.

There was no sound anywhere save the brawling water or the lonely cry of the flute-bird.

But why should brawling braggarts rise With hasty words of shame To drive them back like dogs and swine Who in due honor came?

I found her shackled in lower court, facing charges of brawling and property destruction.

The woman had simply ducked, invisibly fast, and Tally had tripped over her like some awkward littlie in a brawl.

Two troopers, one a pock-faced veteran who had spent his years raising malingering to a substantial art, the other a bull with a broad, flat nose smashed in a tavern brawl, had stoked up a fire for drinks, as troopers will do given any short stop.

The sentence had been passed upon him for having stabbed a man in the back, in a drunken brawl, but Masin had steadily denied the charge, and the evidence against him had been merely circumstantial.

While some of the crew staged that street brawl to misdirect any passersby, the others never had to pick no lock.