What is "altercation"

Usage examples of "altercation".

The squabbles over the augurship may not have attained the height of those frightful altercations heard from the house of Celer before he died, but they enlivened the Forum mightily.

Or did you just not want to have breakfast in the same room with Daur, after your little altercation this morning?

Franz Bauer, I found a considerable crowd of people in the common room, and, in the midst of them, the innkeeper, Christian Hauck, in altercation with a stranger.

Altercation ensued at Islamia College Station, but the train proceeded to Kacha Garhi.

I found that Ito had been engaged for a whole hour in a violent altercation, which was caused by the Transport Agent refusing to supply runners for the kuruma, saying that no one in Horobets would draw one, but on my producing the shomon I was at once started on my journey of sixteen miles with three Japanese lads, Ito riding on to Shiraoi to get my room ready.

A brief altercation ensued when it transpired that Nidget would not be permitted inside, but at length he was sent off in the barouche, and the others crossed the threshold.

Bertrand replied, with an horrible oath, that he did not like such jesting, and a violent altercation ensued, which was, at length, silenced by the thunder, whose deep volley was heard afar, rolling onward till it burst over their heads in sounds, that seemed to shake the earth to its centre.

Bill Valent had received during an altercation with a perp on PCP in the Hermitage Avenue corridor the previous summer.

He had just been having a fierce altercation with his valet, and they were still disputing when Beausire entered.

This gave rise to much altercation and debate, especially among the lords, where the Earl of Chatham, Lord Camden, and others, who had long been the advocates of popular rights, vindicated the present exercise of royal prerogative, not on the plea of necessity but of right: arguing that a dispensing power was inherent in the crown, which might be exerted during the recess of parliament, but which expired whenever parliament reassembled.

Philip and Krantz had embarked and made sail in the peroqua, leaving the soldiers with their knives again drawn, and so busy in their angry altercation as to be heedless of their departure.

The following day there was an altercation over the Citroens between Bedaux and the French mechanic, Balourdet.

Mark Brandon at the close of the altercation with the murdered Swindell, which more strongly than ever confirmed her in the opinion that she possessed a power over the bushranger, which she might be able to use to the advantage of herself and her helpless companion in distress.

There had been no further altercations between her people and those of Thomas Cedarbird, but she felt certain that as soon as the winter storms no longer held the ships to harbor and trade routes thawed out trouble would come.

Thames, but even have made a figure in the celebration of the Eleusinian mysteries, during which the Athenian matrons rallied one another from different waggons, with that freedom of altercation so happily preserved in this our age and country.