6 Metaphors for brawls

We infer from these various fines that burglary, robbery, petty larcenies, and brawls were the most common offences against the laws.

Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, stood on a fine humanity, before which the brawls of modern senates are but pot-house politics.

"Yet this brawl with Boston is no affair of mine," I said, troubled.

The three men rudely pushed their way into a parlour where some other roisterers were drinking; the intrusion was naturally resented, and as each and every one of the party chanced to be better filled with wine than with politeness, a brawl was the consequence.

Practically he had been kicked out of the buffalo camp, just as though he were a drunken half-breed and not one whose barroom brawls were sagas of the frontier.

Brawls were a sort of a figure-dance then in vogue.

6 Metaphors for  brawls