shindies
- plural of shindy.
Example Sentences
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Marks, shindies, prayers and punishments, all flavoured with the leathery stuffiness of time-worn Big Hall....
From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
"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)
They've put up several very nasty little shindies at one place or another.
From Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys by McElroy, John
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
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
