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  • As the Americans were waiting to move on, an altercation broke out in their rear-most rank.   (source)
    altercation = a noisy argument or fight
  • The old man whom he had followed was standing at the bar, having some kind of altercation with the barman,   (source)
    altercation = noisy argument
  • She had no contact with the outside world since the violent altercation she had had with her husband over her having decided Memes fate without his consent.†   (source)
  • For example, three of the men, throughout their lives, had been frequently involved in fights which were not ordinary altercations, and which would have become homicidal assaults if not stopped by others.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, his math class is the next doorway and he slips into the almost empty classroom, relieved to have avoided an altercation.†   (source)
  • My altercation with Russ left me shaking—the idea that I could make it this far only to be turned away by a teenager with a pierced lip was horrifying.†   (source)
  • He circled on tiptoe the grotesque debris and came near a doorway containing a crying soldier holding a saturated handkerchief to his mouth, supported as he sagged by two other soldiers waiting in grave impatience for the military ambulance that finally came clanging up with amber fog lights on and passed them by for an altercation on the next block between a civilian Italian with books and a slew of civilian policemen with armlocks and clubs.†   (source)
  • "I am old, cannot have long to live, have much to do and no time for altercation," Franklin at last wrote to Lee in reply, but then never sent the letter.†   (source)
  • I can only wonder now if this brief altercation with my beloved, an altercation that resulted from my attendance there, had something to do with the events that would soon transpire.†   (source)
  • You don't remember having an altercation with her.†   (source)
  • Evidently news of the altercations with you in Indonesia have leaked and are causing a stir.†   (source)
  • There was an altercation at the launch.†   (source)
  • If the economy did not pick up soon, he was sure there would be more such altercations.†   (source)
  • We got as far as Washington Street in the avenue when [we were] stopped and got into an altercation with an officer....I sprang out and was told that it was useless to go any farther, for the whole of the avenue was on fire.†   (source)
  • As the boys nervously prepared for bed, they could hear the sound of verbal altercations outside their thin doors.†   (source)
  • The brothers hadn't talked for a year after the altercation.†   (source)
  • Even the recounting of the altercation with the wolf, once again, reminded her of the power in the blood, at her fingertips.†   (source)
  • Considering Teknologik's suspected connections to political and military power grids, Joe more likely than not would be killed in jail during a meticulously planned altercation with other prisoners well paid to waste him.†   (source)
  • The store was well swept, and people quietly checked long grocery lists—no screaming kids, no loud cashier-customer altercations.†   (source)
  • No, but that little altercation gave me another chance to talk to your dad.†   (source)
  • The photo shows a bruise on the defendant's face, and our contention is that she received the bruise during some kind of altercation with Mr. Tester.†   (source)
  • After all Red had been through today—the grueling physical effort and the din and the punishing heat, the altercation with the neighbor and the painful scene with his father—Red was calmly studying that stump to find out how old it was.†   (source)
  • I also have to behave myself, play well with others, refrain from throwing desks, as well as refrain from any "violent physical altercations."†   (source)
  • In truth, it had not been an altercation but a well-planned ambush.†   (source)
  • It was because of an altercation I had with a Vertreterin in the women's barracks when I first arrived last April.†   (source)
  • "We had to restrain them after an altercation over some bread," says the guard.   (source)
    altercation = fight
  • So within the first two minutes of this altercation you lost your glasses?   (source)
  • Officer Romanello hadn't believed his account about the altercation in the bar.   (source)
  • He was a few paces away from them when suddenly the group broke up and two of the men were in violent altercation.   (source)
    altercation = noisy argument, confrontation, or fight
  • I can feel the tension in Gale's muscles next to me, fear an altercation.†   (source)
  • Half an hour had passed since his altercation with Celine and company.†   (source)
  • According to French radio, an altercation of some sort had occurred outside a patisserie.†   (source)
  • And were you involved in an altercation with one Mr. Richard Franklin?†   (source)
  • This is the last guy he wants to get into an altercation with, especially on this day of victory.†   (source)
  • Like I said on the phone, I wouldn't worry about the altercation on Saturday night right now.†   (source)
  • Periodically they would break out into song, or begin some noisy, physical altercation, ramming one another with blunt heads or wrapping their arms around one another's necks.†   (source)
  • When she was a child she had deviled for a while at the Maycomb Tribune office and had witnessed several altercations, including the last, between Mrs. E.C.B. and Mr. Underwood.†   (source)
  • There was an ...altercation at the bar.†   (source)
  • She sat back, closed her eyes, and told basically the same story as Justin had, though she had, apparently, tuned in more closely on the altercation between Pandora and Mavis.†   (source)
  • Near the end of the long winter, Barbara got a note about a minor altercation at school—just a push fight, but not something she'd expect from Cedric.†   (source)
  • Once you learn the ropes, you'll realize that nearly every altercation has something to do with a feud or vendetta of some sort, and the law doesn't much like to get involved with those unless they cross the line, like this one.†   (source)
  • At the top of the report were the basics: Richard Franklin's name, address, phone number, place of work, and so forth, and she skimmed that part before reading the description of the altercation itself.†   (source)
  • At some time long past midnight we were sitting in the dim, murmurously convivial bar of the Hotel McAlpin, where I had taken him after the disastrous altercation he had had with a cabdriver named Thomas McGuire, Hack License 8608, only an hour or so after his arrival in New York.†   (source)
  • Just a long, poorly lighted platform with loud, furious altercations in Arabic going on somewhere.†   (source)
  • The altercation-if it was one-went on for some time.†   (source)
  • I made sure that he had been having a stormy altercation with M. de Saint Alard.†   (source)
  • Several people declare that they heard a violent altercation going on in the little supper-room, and that Eustace Beltane was one of the disputants.†   (source)
  • The men grouped closer and a loud altercation followed.†   (source)
  • Then began a curious three-cornered altercation.†   (source)
  • They had a rapid altercation, in which they fastened upon each other various strange epithets.†   (source)
  • Fully half-an-hour went by, and then I saw Johnson and Louis in some sort of altercation.†   (source)
  • In the course of the altercation the dean remarked that he "might as well buy the taxicab."†   (source)
  • They were surrounded by the noises of the monstrous altercation between the two armies.†   (source)
  • Thus the attention of many was attracted by this altercation.†   (source)
  • At the front an altercation occurred between an Austrian guide and a Russian general.†   (source)
  • Heyward saw, by the manner of the scout, that altercation would be useless.†   (source)
  • Before she saw them Edna could hear them in altercation, the woman—plainly an anomaly—claiming the right to be allowed to perform her duties, one of which was to answer the bell.†   (source)
  • Having the advantage of her in altitude, the driver had stood his ground and even ventured to attempt to speak; and the result had been a furious altercation, which, continuing all the way down Ashland Avenue, had added a new swarm of urchins to the cortege at each side street for half a mile.†   (source)
  • Lisa asked her mother about the opera glasses, and there was an altercation between mother and daughter as to who had taken them and where they had been put.†   (source)
  • No one saw this little altercation, for very few persons were in the car, and they were attempting to doze.†   (source)
  • There ended the altercation.†   (source)
  • He was staying, it says, at the 'Coach an' Horses,' and no one don't seem to have been aware of his misfortune, it says, aware of his misfortune, until in an Altercation in the inn, it says, his bandages on his head was torn off.†   (source)
  • Raising their eyebrows, total strangers sitting nearby eavesdropped on the altercation, captivated by the passion and finesse of the interchange.†   (source)
  • It was doomed to be a failure as far as the principal person was concerned, but he approached the others with fussy importance, and, almost immediately, found himself involved in a violent altercation with the chap that carried his arm in a sling, and who turned out to be extremely anxious for a row.†   (source)
  • V Nicole went to the window and bent over the sill to take a look at the rising altercation on the terrace; the April sun shone pink on the saintly face of Augustine, the cook, and blue on the butcher's knife she waved in her drunken hand.†   (source)
  • There was a mighty altercation.†   (source)
  • The guns in the rear, aroused and enraged by shells that had been thrown burr-like at them, suddenly involved themselves in a hideous altercation with another band of guns.†   (source)
  • They take no share in the altercations of parties, but they readily adopt the general opinions of their country and their age; and they allow themselves to be borne away without opposition in the current of feeling and opinion by which everything around them is carried along.†   (source)
  • That it was possible even for justice itself to confound the innocent with the guilty when they were in accidental companionship, he knew already; and that deeply-laid plans for the destruction of inconveniently knowing or over-communicative persons, had been really devised and carried out by the Jew on more occasions than one, he thought by no means unlikely, when he recollected the general nature of the altercations between that gentleman and Mr. Sikes: which seemed to bear reference to some foregone conspiracy of the kind.†   (source)
  • The morning had been a quiet morning enough — all except the brief scene with the lunatic: the transaction in the church had not been noisy; there was no explosion of passion, no loud altercation, no dispute, no defiance or challenge, no tears, no sobs: a few words had been spoken, a calmly pronounced objection to the marriage made; some stern, short questions put by Mr. Rochester; answers, explanations given, evidence adduced; an open admission of the truth had been uttered by my master; then the living proof had been seen; the intruders were gone, and all was over.†   (source)
  • There was a little altercation between her and Steerforth about a cast of the dice at back gammon — when I thought her, for one moment, in a storm of rage; and then I saw it start forth like the old writing on the wall.†   (source)
  • The altercation was conducted in a low tone of voice, and terminated in the honest tradesman's kicking off his clay-soiled boots, and lying down at his length on the floor.†   (source)
  • Often it had occurred to me in my ponderings upon the subject, that had that altercation taken place in the public street, or at a private residence, it would not have terminated as it did.†   (source)
  • Besides, there had been no altercation; the assailant had come in so silently and suddenly, that she had been felled before she could look round.†   (source)
  • The deed thoroughly answered: a source of domestic altercation was entirely done away, and it was the means of opening Susan's heart to her, and giving her something more to love and be interested in.†   (source)
  • And, assuredly, he was, out of all those present, the only one who had not deigned to turn his head at the altercation between Coppenole and the usher.†   (source)
  • By this time Mr. and Mrs. Chadband and Mrs. Snagsby, hearing the altercation, have appeared upon the stairs.†   (source)
  • The professor had had a trifling altercation in the morning with that young gentleman, owing to a difference about the introduction of crackers in school-time; but his face resumed its habitual expression of bland courtesy as he said, "Master Osborne, I give you full permission to go and see your carriage friends—to whom I beg you to convey the respectful compliments of myself and Mrs. Veal."†   (source)
  • 'I am in no mood for more noise and riot,' thought Nicholas, 'and yet, do what I will, I shall have an altercation with this honest blockhead, and perhaps a blow or two from yonder staff.'†   (source)
  • One night, about the close of my fifth year at the school, and immediately after the altercation just mentioned, finding every one wrapped in sleep, I arose from bed, and, lamp in hand, stole through a wilderness of narrow passages from my own bedroom to that of my rival.†   (source)
  • He provoked quarrels and altercations in defense of him and succeeded in bringing some people round to his side.†   (source)
  • We have met here, a company of friends, for a farewell dinner to a comrade and you carry on an altercation," said Trudolyubov, rudely addressing himself to me alone.†   (source)
  • It was about the same period, if I remember aright, that, in an altercation of violence with him, in which he was more than usually thrown off his guard, and spoke and acted with an openness of demeanor rather foreign to his nature, I discovered, or fancied I discovered, in his accent, his air, and general appearance, a something which first startled, and then deeply interested me, by bringing to mind dim visions of my earliest infancy—wild, confused and thronging memories of a time when memory herself was yet unborn.†   (source)
  • '"Cherizette," said the Lady Flabella, inserting her mouse-like feet in the blue satin slippers, which had unwittingly occasioned the half-playful half-angry altercation between herself and the youthful Colonel Befillaire, in the Duke of Mincefenille's SALON DE DANSE on the previous night.†   (source)
  • It is needless to say, that, by this time, the temper of each young lady was in some slight degree affected by the tone of her conversation, and that a dash of personality was infused into the altercation, in consequence.†   (source)
  • Whenever I was solicited to insert anything of that kind, and the writers pleaded, as they generally did, the liberty of the press, and that a newspaper was like a stagecoach, in which any one who would pay had a right to a place, my answer was, that I would print the piece separately if desired, and the author might have as many copies as he pleased to distribute himself, but that I would not take upon me to spread his detraction; and that, having contracted with my subscribers to furnish them with what might be either useful or entertaining, I could not fill their papers with private altercation, in which they had no concern, without doing them manifest injustice.†   (source)
  • But just then there was a slight altercation between Master Tommy and Master Jacky.†   (source)
  • An animated altercation (in which all took part) ensued among the F. O. T. E. I. as to whether the eighth or the ninth of March was the correct date of the birth of Ireland's patron saint.†   (source)
  • Adjacent to the men's public urinal they perceived an icecream car round which a group of presumably Italians in heated altercation were getting rid of voluble expressions in their vivacious language in a particularly animated way, there being some little differences between the parties.†   (source)
  • Negative: he omitted to mention the clandestine correspondence between Martha Clifford and Henry Flower, the public altercation at, in and in the vicinity of the licensed premises of Bernard Kiernan and Co, Limited, 8, 9 and 10 Little Britain street, the erotic provocation and response thereto caused by the exhibitionism of Gertrude (Gerty), surname unknown.†   (source)
  • (rite of John): the funeral (rite of Samuel): the advertisement of Alexander Keyes (Urim and Thummim): the unsubstantial lunch (rite of Melchisedek): the visit to museum and national library (holy place): the bookhunt along Bedford row, Merchants' Arch, Wellington Quay (Simchath Torah): the music in the Ormond Hotel (Shira Shirim): the altercation with a truculent troglodyte in Bernard Kiernan's premises (holocaust): a blank period of time including a cardrive, a visit to a house of mourning, a leavetaking (wilderness): the eroticism produced by feminine exhibitionism (rite of Onan): the prolonged delivery of Mrs Mina Purefoy (heave offering): the visit to the disorderly house of Mrs Bell†   (source)
  • Containing scenes of altercation, of no very uncommon kind.†   (source)
  • This noise was no other than a round bout at altercation between two persons.†   (source)
  • Witness on him that any perfect clerk is,
    That in school is great altercation
    In this matter, and great disputation,
    And hath been of an hundred thousand men.†   (source)
  • Their refusal would be too plausible a pretext to the complaining States to withhold their contributions, not to be embraced with avidity; and the non-compliance of these States with their engagements would be a ground of bitter discussion and altercation.†   (source)
  • Sancho retorted, and the goatherd rejoined, and the altercation ended in their seizing each other by the beard, and exchanging such fisticuffs that if Don Quixote had not made peace between them, they would have knocked one another to pieces.†   (source)
  • WHICH TREATS OF THE NOTABLE ALTERCATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE'S NIECE, AND HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER DROLL MATTERS†   (source)
  • Diverse men diversely him told
    Of marriage many examples old;
    Some blamed it, some praised it, certain;
    But at the haste, shortly for to sayn
    (As all day* falleth altercation *constantly, every day
    Betwixte friends in disputation),
    There fell a strife betwixt his brethren two,
    Of which that one was called Placebo,
    Justinus soothly called was that other.†   (source)
  • In short, the curate used such arguments, and Don Quixote did such mad things, that the officers would have been more mad than he was if they had not perceived his want of wits, and so they thought it best to allow themselves to be pacified, and even to act as peacemakers between the barber and Sancho Panza, who still continued their altercation with much bitterness.†   (source)
  • The two chambermaids being again left alone, began a second bout at altercation, which soon produced a combat of a more active kind.†   (source)
  • This sum, after some altercation, was reduced to two; and Jones, having stipulated for the full forgiveness of both Partridge and the wife, was going to pay the money; when his majesty, restraining his hand, turned to the witness and asked him, "At what time he had discovered the criminals?"†   (source)
  • Mrs Western, on her first arrival at her brother's lodging, began to set forth the great honours and advantages which would accrue to the family by the match with Lord Fellamar, which her niece had absolutely refused; in which refusal, when the squire took the part of his daughter, she fell immediately into the most violent passion, and so irritated and provoked the squire, that neither his patience nor his prudence could bear it any longer; upon which there ensued between them both so warm a bout at altercation, that perhaps the regions of Billingsgate never equalled it.†   (source)
  • The only trouble in her file was a slight altercation early in the year when a teacher reprimanded her for bringing obscene literature—Fear of Flying—into the classroom.   (source)
    altercation = noisy argument
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