Hereupon Ted drew forth his cudgel, hit the Turk a donnybrookian whack over the skull that laid him flat on the ground, and took to his heels.
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Donnybrookian
Synonyms for "donnybrookian"
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The favourite device of one of the Indian desert foxes here is of a donnybrookian flavour.
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All at once we find the irrepressible Count of Poitou in the thick of the fray, for no reason whatever that I can discover, except, may be, a general donnybrookian tendency to take part in any fight that is going!
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