Amid the din of altercation which ensued, Lumsden Sahib's voice was heard calling for order.
The street was still full of rebels, and an excited altercation was going on among them.
Further altercation could only result in my betraying Boyce.
Fitz-Urse was the spokesman in the fierce altercation which ensued.
Another fierce and rapid altercation followed: they demanded the absolution of the bishops, his own surrender to the King's justice.
Adam Smith, it is said, met Johnson at Glasgow and had an altercation with him about the well-known account of Hume's death.
When the altercation became most bitter I put my hand to my hip to draw my pistol, but discovered it was gone--stolen by one of the rascals surrounding me.
The cad, by a remarkable coincidence, happened to entertain a directly contrary opinion, and Heaven knows how far the altercation would have proceeded, if it had not been most ably and satisfactorily brought to a close by the driver.
The last time we saw our friend was one wet evening in Tottenham-court-road, when he was engaged in a very warm and somewhat personal altercation with a loquacious little gentleman in a green coat.
But the crowd had either read his attitude aright, or gathered that there was an altercation between us, for the moment he moved they set up a howl.
The altercation was stopped by Sir Christopher, who adroitly changed the subject, and asked Fletcher what he thought of an Union between England and Ireland.
On another day Hume describes how, when he entered the Parliament House, he found analtercation going on, apparently over the Minutes of the last sitting.
The five minutes of morning altercation with Grounsell over, the dreary time was unbroken by a single event, or uncheckered by a single hope.
An altercation commenced at the porquett entrance between the check-taker and a young man, which ended in the first being desperately wounded by a stab with a knife.
A second and a third scene of the same kind occurred, and on the third occasion the altercation almost produced a battle between the elder and the carpenter.
This refusal having led to an altercation between him and Bothwell, Murray, true to his system of neutrality, withdrew into his earldom, and let affairs follow without him the fatal decline they had taken.
But in the course of the day he learned how late the rector had been; and early next morning some rumor of the triangular altercation in the church porch also reached him--of course in an exaggerated form.
He did not for the first few moments consider whether his altercation with the rector was likely to have unpleasant consequences, nor did he trouble himself about the manner in which he was to do Laura's bidding.
Just as the bells of Notre Dame boomed the hour I heard what sounded like a furious altercation somewhere in the corridor just above me.
The altercation turned out to be between two men who had pushed their way into the building by the main staircase, and who became very abusive to the gendarme who ordered them out.
In the altercation which followed I listened to Maitland and watched Jellaby.
Soon people would refuse to meet her, for, whatever else the altercation with Grayle had made clear, they were being of a sudden universally discussed.
Nor was it till after a long and desperate wordy altercation that the clamor was subdued, and decorum at length restored.
As they entered the house they heard an altercation between Mr and Miss Hicks.
But the hands being turned up, "Shorten sail" put an end to the altercation for the present.
The altercation grew louder and more turbulent, then quieted down, until, finally, the quietude was as complete as before.
A little more would make the altercation between Creon and Oedipus pass over into a forensic wrangling-match.
The next scene is one of altercationbetween Oedipus and Creon.
After some altercation he obtained permission to pass the holidays out of town.
A sharp altercation followed, which was with difficulty quieted by the mediation of Rumbold.
Instead of opposing an inflexible resistance to the demands of the Commons, he, after much altercationand many evasions, agreed to a compromise which, if he had faithfully adhered to it, would have averted a long series of calamities.
We found that there had been a slightaltercation between two of the men.
