fisticuffs

• When a movie's entire storyline is written to provide frequent opportunities for firepower and fisticuffs, the finer aspects of plot and character -- not to mention logic-- invariably fall by the wayside. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 03 - March 1995
• Instead of fisticuffs, as some of the newspaper men had predicted, the lion and the lamb sat down together at the dining table, and for an hour or two the question of the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles was forgotten in the telling of pleasant stories and the play of repartee. —  WOODROW WILSON AS I KNOW HIM
• While the fisticuffs were entertaining, Reuters dashes any hope of flight from Mr. Cosmo. —  Dealbreaker
• Every college has his kind, whom the bantlings fall down and worship--fisticuffs and books are both represented, and a touch of irreverence for those in authority is no disadvantage Luther's lack of reverence for his superiors held him back from promotion--and another thing was his imperious temper. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
• I remarked among these worthies a partiality for fisticuffs, and a dislike for the manual of arms. —  Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War

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