knock-down-and-drag-out

• “Roderick ( "Rod the Rock") Kinnison ran for President of North America against the incumbent Witherspoon; and, after a knock-down-and-drag-out political battle with Senator Morgan, the voice of the Morgan -”

  Gray Lensman

• “One of the leading moralists of the town, proprietor of a knock-down-and-drag-out, was loudest in his protestations that such a happening in the public square of Ascalon, in the broad light of day, the assembled inhabitants looking on, would give the place a name from which it never would recover.”

  Trail's End

• “I know Peter well enough to know that when it comes to standing up to a real knock-down-and-drag-out fight, he won't do it.”

  The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece

• “In him will be blended the courtliness and chivalry of Spain, the imagery and romance and belligerency of the Irish, the thrift and caution of the Scotch, and the go-get-him-boy, knock-down-and-drag-out spirit of our own Uncle”

  The Pride of Palomar

• “And in a genuine old-fashioned knock-down-and-drag-out rough-and-tumble your woodsman is about the toughest customer to handle you will be likely to meet.”

  The Blazed Trail

• “If you're going into this political knock-down-and-drag-out, you ought to have the dope.”

  The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush

• “It had grown because of their favor and by means of the rankest exhibitions of knock-down-and-drag-out methods of consolidation of all competitors but -- Westinghouse.”

  Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated

• “And he might -- he might have done it -- for he was the most wishy-washy chap that ever cocked his eye at a woman; he might, I say, if me an 'him hadn't had a regular knock-down-and-drag-out row.”

  Dixie Hart

• “I've got my things all done up at home and the folks in bed, and I'm going to stay with him all night if I have to have a knock-down-and-drag-out row to do it.”

  Dixie Hart

• “It was a knock-down-and-drag-out fight, in which hair pulling, gouging, and biting were allowed.”

  Stories Of Georgia

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