bout

Brooks: The main thing I remember from then is bouts of grief for no apparent reason.

This is seldom successful, until three or four bouts have been fought out, and a clear back fall gained.

And these bouts concerning the girl's marriage to Timothy occurred so often without any advantage to either side.

From the warping-bars these bouts are carefully wound on the warp-beam.

So that I found a 171 certain entertainment in these bouts of incivility, and was not always ill inspired in my rejoinders.

The bouts had been short for I had known of their coming and dosed myself.