What is "brawls"

Usage examples of "brawls".

There was plenty of mad action, senseless destruction, orgies, brawls, perversions and a strange parade of innocent victims that, even on paper and in careful police language, was enough to tax the credulity of the dullest police reporter.

Publicity from the Monterey rape and two subsequent local brawls had brought such relentless heat that those few who insisted on wearing the colors were forced to act more like refugees than outlaws, and the chapter's reputation withered accordingly.

His wife is a willowy, quiet young blonde whose taste runs more to folk music than to brawls and wild parties.

Another tenant in the building told me the landlord was convinced, by all the tales he'd heard, that the interior of my apartment was reduced to rubble by orgies, brawls, fire and wanton shooting.

A man who has had his nose smashed three times in brawls will risk it again with hardly a thought.

You know, my dear Castruccio, that poor Italy is distracted by civil brawls, and how little honour one who is exiled as you are from his native town, can acquire, to whatever party he may adhere.

Is not their town filled with brawls, and are not their streets strewed with the ruins of the palaces of the noble Ghibelines?

Having grown up around ruffians, having seen and been involved in many, many brawls, the woman understood the gist of what was happening below.

Of late, Shingles had been playing the part of the calming voice in these nightly brawls, had been taking a diplomatic route in the hopes that Elastul's imprisonment of Torgar would prove a temporary thing, maybe even that Elastul would come to see that he had erred in capturing Torgar in the first place.

In a couple of places, sisters had squared off for what might become honor brawls.

They definitely do not have any problem with sexual assault, for obvious reasons, and what brawls they do have are settled in-family.

There have been brawls, duels, knife fights and sometimes even killings, and it isn't always clear whether the City Guard or the Terran spaceforce should properly handle the offenders.

Regis had the relatively menial task of walking patrol in the city with a seasoned veteran or two, keeping order in the streets, preventing brawls, discouraging sneak-thieves and footpads.

They broke up two budding brawls, hauled an obstreperous drunk to the brig, directed half a dozen lost country bumpkins to the inn where they had left their horses and gently reminded a few wandering women that harlots were restricted by law to certain districts in the city.

The air resounded with shouts, brawls and laughter, and the house of the Lord stank from sweat and filth.