skrimmage

Then began an obstinate struggle, not like the other fight with the Germans and Tories; but a running fight on the hills and plains, just the kind of skrimmage in which a hundred Green Mountain Boys were worth double their number of redcoats.

The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson

Thus the "skrimmage," as John Potter styled it, became general.

The Story of the Rock 1859

Each had a few adherents, who would not have submitted to such an arbitrary cruelty; and Le Gros was influenced by the fear of a general "skrimmage," in which more than one life, -- among the rest perhaps his own, -- might be forfeited.

The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850

And they all trooped up again, and so the skrimmage ended.

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

But nothing about that thing that happened to him off Cape Horn, long ago, when he lay like dead for three days and nights; nothing about that deadly skrimmage with the Spaniard afore the altar in

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Discipline of so perfect a nature must have inspired the gallant colonel with the strongest hopes of success in case of an onslaught on the forces of Ibrahim Pasha, and in all probability his efforts, with those of Captain Lane, Hunter, and Giorgio, might have produced something like a skrimmage when they came near the tents of the

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

You know after that skrimmage at Hubbardton, Warner could scarcely muster more than two hundred men, and we who were sent from

The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson

Williams, and told him there had been a skrimmage at Lexington, and that

The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson

And so, you see, d'you see, says I, 'Tom Bruce, do you stick to the critter, and he'll holp you out of the skrimmage;' and, says I, 'I'll take the back-track, and foller atter madam.'

Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

All parties were delighted to let the rival yelpers fight it out on so distant a field as Syria; and in that country of heat and dryness, of poverty, anarchy, cruelty, and superstition, there was a skrimmage that kept all Christendom on the tenter-hooks for half-a-year; and this we believe to be the policy of the Syrian campaign.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various