1 He was killed in a saloon brawl long before I was born.
2 And the Yankees would say they killed each other in a common drunken brawl over a girl in Belle's house.
3 A small-town bungalow, the wives of a village doctor and a village dry-goods merchant, a provincial teacher, a colloquial brawl over paying a servant a dollar more a week.
4 The brawl of passions and ignorances is quite another thing from the shock of progress.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 5 It was during one of these brawls that Stuart Tarleton had shot Cade Calvert and Tony Fontaine had shot Brent.
6 He was not only a professional peacemaker, but from practice a hater of all feuds and brawls.
7 While exclaiming loudly against duels and brawls, they excited them secretly to quarrel, deriving an immoderate satisfaction or genuine regret from the success or defeat of their own combatants.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE 8 No brawling," said the Knight, "it is but a friendly interchange of courtesy.
9 Oliver, whose days had been spent among squalid crowds, and in the midst of noise and brawling, seemed to enter on a new existence there.
10 Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF 11 In others, drunkards brawled and screamed.