The insults and threats gave way to a donnybrook.
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Donnybrook
//ˈdɒnɪbɹʊk//
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But the Hindus turned out and broke their heads; when, finding lawlessness pleasant, Hindus and Muhammadans together raised an aimless sort of Donnybrook just to see how far they could go.
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Sherman's signature caused another donnybrook over the election of a speaker of the House when the 36th Congress convened in December 1859.
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This was no innocuous donnybrook but a veritable carnival of thuggee.
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