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It is getting a big bore, When, with tempers hot as Indies, Heroes smash each other's windies, Pursuing of their shindies about Afric's shore.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 2, 1891 by Various

"It's always new-comers as stirs up shindies," growled a miner who, having reached the surface a few minutes earlier, formed one of the expectant group.

From The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines by Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)

The people are too deeply interested in football, starting prices, rates, public parks, sliding scales, excursions to Blackpool, and municipal shindies, to concern themselves with organists as such.

From The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Bennett, Arnold

I have been sorry since, for I suspect it was a Home Rule meeting, and Limerick has a great reputation for shindies.

From The Charm of Ireland by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

He gathered from the papers that writers, painters, musicians, were holding shindies almost every night, at which delightful rebels, too busy to occupy themselves with actual creation, talked charmingly about their plans.

From Where the Blue Begins by Morley, Christopher