Today, there has been a fracas of some kind.

But Philip Leithcourt took advantage of the fracas in order to make believe that he had fled because of Chater's arrival.

Nothing worth noting occurred on the passage, except a fracas between the captain and the first mate, whom the former had discovered to be ignorant of the art of navigation, and who had, it appeared, been engaged in a hurry on the eve of the vessel's departure from Charleston.

There is a disagreeable little matter regarding a lady, and I fear a fracas with a man who is awaiting me outside in the Nevski."

The latter, following either his own inclination or the advice of his chum, decided not to resign his position as a prefect, and in a few days' time the majority of the school had wellnigh forgotten the fracas at the Black Swan.

Captain Ludlow, we will now join my dutiful niece, with as little fracas as possible.

No one suspects it to be other than a fracas over a game at écarté.

He never said a word of the fracas to me, and I only heard of it when I got up to Parker's.

G. created something of a fracas about a kidney which she ate and then said was bad, but she calmed down, and we enjoyed looking at the other passengers, speculating as to who and what they were.