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Laughter and shouts greeted this order, and when Kid Conner offered to impersonate a lovely damsel and, with mincing step and bashful mien, appeared at the opening, Jake was game, and a skuffle ensued.
The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart
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His form was somewhat slender, but when you looked at him you saw at the first glance that this would be a dangerous man in a ground skuffle, a foot race, or a fight.
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins
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Page 193 much uv a skuffle 'roun' yer dis evenin 'youer gwineter year fum' im. '
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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Remus wid his hoss-pistol, an 'ef dar's much uv a skuffle' roun 'yer dis evenin' you er gwineter year fum 'im.'
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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County police department was called in to arrest Lohan for a skuffle with rehab center employee
NY Daily News 2011
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Jim, he tuck'n light on de mule, an 'de mule she up'n hump' erse'f, an den dey wuz a skuffle, an 'w'en de dus' blow 'way, dar lay de nigger on de groun', an 'de mule she stood eatin' at de troff wid wunner Jim's gallusses wrop 'roun' her behime-leg.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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Jim, he tuck'n light on de mule, an 'de mule she up'n hump' erse'f, an den dey wuz a skuffle, an 'w'en de dus' blow 'way, dar lay de nigger on de groun', an 'de mule she stood eatin' at de troff wid wunner Jim's gallusses wrop 'roun' her behime-leg.
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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