What is "tussle"

Usage examples of "tussle".

After an extensive tussle, punctuated by whoops, giggles and female screams, the predictable result was obtained with Avis straddling his face, Eris his hips.

Fleetwood depicted his plodding Gower at the tussle with account-books.

The wheels of the wagon got mired in the mud twice so that by the time he lurched up before his porch, Jonathan was as splashed and muddied as Gilroy Bastable had been after his tussle with the storm.

He jumped from the bottom step, avoided the entangled actor and rushed to the assistance of the expressman, who was now rolling on the platfosm, locked in a tussle with Bascom.

In fact, everything seemed to have on an exceedingly warlike tint, but our advance continued as swifty as our weary feet would allow, which soon brought us to a number of our own comrades conveyed on litters from La Guasima, where our advance guard was tussling hard with the Dons for the honors of the day.

First they wrapped the Great Father Serpent in fine smallclothes of softwhispering blush-colored changeable taffeta taken from a mahogany wardrobe of prodigious size located behind him, tussling for half an hour to cover his whole great length.

The first guard, Jake Blair, Morg Tussler, and Clay Zilligan, were detailed to cut and drive the squads into the chute.

But long before the herd reached this menace, Morg Tussler and myself, scouting two full days in advance, located a safe route to the westward.

The horse-wrangler was pressed into service in making up the first guard that night, and taking Morg Tussler with me, I struck out for Dodge in the falling darkness.

I put up a trivial excuse for seeing him, the clerk gave me the number of his room, and Tussler and I were soon closeted with him.

Appointing an hour for showing the herd the next day, or that one rather, Tussler and I withdrew, agreeing to be out of town before daybreak.

Three men were on herd, and sending two more with instructions to water the cattle an hour before noon, Tussler and I sought the shade of the wagon and fell asleep.

The two strangers were rather testy, but Siringo ate ravenously, repeatedly asking for things which were usually kept in a well-stocked chuck-wagon, meanwhile talking with great familiarity with Tussler and me.

Johnny was still tussling with the divorce, still trying to figure out what the rules were, what position he played, and how he could score.

Huge tracts of land were rendered unusable for thousands of years along with the bits of Chile and Argentina that glow in the dark after their little atomic tussle.