It ended in fisticuffs.
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Fisticuffs
/ˈfɪs.tɪˌkəfs/
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So he obſerves that all ſimple Governments are apt to ſome evil that is peculiar and conſequential to their Nature, as he inſtanceth in a Kingdom changed into Monarchy abſolute, by which he means that which we now call Tyranny; Ariſtocracy into Oligarchy, and Democracy into Beſtial Chirocracy, when the Seditious of people prevail more by Fiſticuffs than reaſon: […]
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People who share a cell in the Basti[l]le […] if they do not immediately fall to fisticuffs, will find some possible ground of compromise.
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[…], his head all scarred with the sticks and fisticuffs which he had got in the taverns at Utrecht, […]
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