They made up their minds that if they should meet Pete Deveaux and his crowd at another stop, something worse than a single fistic encounter would take place!
He had heard enough to convince him that nothing but a fistic settlement of the controversy would be adequate, and, with the help of several white traders and sailors, he formed a ring.
Even had this metropolitan fistic opening missed in point of impact, Why-Not Pape would have offered satisfaction without thought of recourse to the gun nestling under his left arm-pit.
What would have been a clean knock-out of which no fistic specialist need have been ashamed was spoiled by a mishap.
If the electrically charged wires had surprised the mischief-making upper classmen, the sudden collapsing of their fistic champion shocked them even more.
Bill and Gus went home for the one big day, and came back to study and to continue their shop work; but Tony was away for ten days, during which he took a few lessons from one of the best teachers of the fistic art that could be found.
John's bruised countenance had been noticed, but as he had evidently been whipped in some fistic argument it was etiquette not to question too openly, but to approach the matter indirectly.
His fistic prestige was gone, and he went speedily to "the bad.
The Horton Boxing Law had not yet been thought of, and the fistic cult had more followers than ever before.
Now that he had seen both St. Pierre and Bateese stripped for battle, he had no further appetite for fistic discussion with them.
Not until they were half-way to the bateau did Carrigan dare to glance back over his shoulder at the man who was paddling, to see what effect the fistic travesty had left on him.
The fight had not made him popular, as he had hoped it would, after he had won it, though the sporting element in the academy could not but admire his fistic abilities.
The matter was quietly arranged, and, the next afternoon Dick, and the few chums he had, slipped off after the evening parade to a secluded spot, where all the fistic battles of the academy took place.
This only lasted for two weeks when I rejoined Rice and continued with him until I was discharged for having a fistic encounter with the stage manager who was always making things particularly disagreeable for me.
At Reno we found a private car awaiting us and we were conveyed the remaining two hundred miles to the scene of the fistic encounter in royal state.
Box number one's a Tennis Court, For those of fistic valour; And should you want to grace the ring, Must enter as a scholar.
But to recur for a moment to the fistic carnival: Have any of you been able to determine how the Dallas News stood in regard to that great enterprise?
When it was first proposed to bring the great fistic carnival and a million dollars to Dallas, Gov.
Ye, who aspire to fistic fame, And wish a glorious race to run, Remember Belcher's deathless name, And how Tom Cribb his laurels won!
You feel sure your man will win the fight on short notice, in fact you almost pity the man from Springfield, to see that he must compete in a fistic combat with such a giant as the Jacksonville Gladiator.
Joak was a "tough yin" and had considerable renown as a fistic gladiator.
The fistic art in those days was very generally practised and a stand-up fight between two local champions was often undertaken for the mere love of the thing.
The immediate cause of his expulsion from school was a fistic encounter with a teacher.
Upon his return to this hospital he became involved in fistic encounters, on the way to his ward, for which there was very little provocation.
The high-spirited bantlings had a way of pummelling one another in fistic duels, and of calling in their respective mothers when they got the worse of it--which is cowardly, but human.
He was shamed before a friend whom he had early convinced of his fistic superiority.
He knew Hank Harkins for a bully, and believed him to be a coward at heart, but he had no wish to get into a fistic argument with him in a public place like Goggins' store and postoffice.
What was Jack's surprise to find that the pilot of his machine was none other than the French midshipman he had so lately engaged in fistic combat.
That his comrades believed him a master of the fistic art was evinced by their cries: "Finish him up quickly.
On Sunday we got drunk together in a speak-easy[8] near the model, and it was with difficulty that we restrained Carroty from challenging everybody whom he met to fistic encounter.
Joe took the matter in hand in his usual fistic and persuasive way and learned that the farmer's son had not seen Norah for years and that he did not know where she was.
This allowed the physically strong man to exert considerable influence, and fistic arguments were constantly in progress.
Gahey looked at me openly and eagerly, evincing all tokens of pleasure and willingness to come to fistic conclusions with me there and then.
Thanks, thanks to thee, my fistic friend, For the lesson thou hast taught.
The fistic crack, SMITH, stands, JEM SMITH a mighty man is he, With smart and smiting hands; And the muscles of his legs and arms Stand out like steely bands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
