What is "fisticuff"

Usage examples of "fisticuff".

Tiretta now as enraged as Gaetan took him by his middle and threw him down, where, having no arms, he defended himself with kicks and fisticuffs, till the waiter came, and we put him out of the room.

Fastidio, and the unlucky Battipaglia was dragged outside and treated to a generous dose of blows and fisticuffs, which was not exactly the thing to console him for a lost engagement.

It had a desperate reputation, morally, in the old keel-boating and early steamboating times--plenty of drinking, carousing, fisticuffing, and killing there, among the riff-raff of the river, in those days.

Fastidio, and the unlucky Battipaglia was dragged outside and treated to a generous dose of blows and fisticuffs, which was not exactly the thing to console him for a lost engagement.

Instantly the onlookers quietened, but the two combatants continued their fisticuffs.

Petronio, taking his sister's part, joined Fastidio, and the unlucky Battipaglia was dragged outside and treated to a generous dose of blows and fisticuffs, which was not exactly the thing to console him for a lost engagement.

I received a fisticuff on the nose that made me see a thousand stars, and quite extinguished the fire of my concupiscence.

The apprenticeship of the Prussian Crown Princes has always consisted in receiving fisticuffs and cowhidings from their progenitor, the king.

I have not forgotten about the fisticuffs outside hall during Easter Term, when, as I understand it, you were the precipitating factor.

He hated the flics, the Paris police, with whom he had, more than once, exchanged fisticuffs and clubbings.

Clearly, I needed to have a word with Pippa, and a round of fisticuffs if necessary.

You have been trampled under foot, you have received hard fisticuffs, hard knocks from the butt-ends of muskets, and even from bayonets, when you wished to save Foulon and Berthier.