The theory today is, Nadine, old thing, that professionals such as the captain are gathering experience in case a serious fracas with the Sovs ever develops.
Joe said evenly, "If I can bring this off, I'll be a fracasbuff celebrity.
His officers appreciated him and so did the ultra-knowledgeable fracas buffs--but he was all but an unknown to the average dim wit who spent most of his life glued to the Telly set, watching men butcher each other.
But as it appears now, the fracas as we have known it, has been revolutionized.
About all that Joe Mauser remembered of that fracas was the abnormal number of casualties they'd taken.
Quite a few of the officers involved in this fracas have been renting out taxi-planes almost as fast as they're available.
That was the fracas that brought on the howl from the Sovs.
Do you think I can fight a fracas with that thing dangling above me, throughout the day hours?
And in the fracas itself cavalry is going to be more important than either artillery or infantry.
By the looks of things at this stage, Captain Mauser's squadron would be going into this fracas both undermanned with Rank Privates and with junior officers composed largely of temporarily promoted noncoms.
I'll bet this town is full of fracas buffs from as far as Philly.
Some ran like frightened sheep to the distant corners of the room, fearful lest they be embroiled in this unpleasant fracas .
As a matter of fact, neither she nor her husband counted the risks of a midnight fracas of great moment to themselves: they had so very little to lose.
At one time after the fracas in Bath Street, he had even given her a vague promise of marriage; therefore, he had kept secret from her the relation of that day spent at Dover.
I even bore the brunt of the last fracas whilst you remained practically scathless.
Lord Cooke killed Sir Humphrey Clinton in a duel after that fracas we had here, when the police-patrol well-nigh seized upon your person.
Life is dragged down to a fracasof pitiful cares and disasters.
Last night's fracas means hard work all day and lots of it.
There had been a fracas in the hunting field at Toft Monks, consequent upon Mr. Colman causing a hare to be shot during a run of the Norfolk and Suffolk Harriers, and thereupon having been assaulted by one of the sportsmen.
After the close of the poll Mr. McCullagh again addressed the electors, and a fracas ensued, during which two or three persons were injured.
There was a report current of a fracas having taken place between two leading members of the Tory party during a meeting at the Star Hotel.
The squire had endorsed the story of the fracas on his passport, and a severe punishment awaited him on his return.
Thus the Sunday passed; and, when Crescence returned with the geometer, long after dark, she thanked her stars that the dreaded fracas had not occurred.
There had been a fracas in the canteen during the officers’ mess hour, which eventually developed into a riot, and then was quelled.
It was in this most select of establishments that a fracas occurred between this most irascible of baronets and a noble marquis (still living), when the pot called the kettle black.
Thus it happened that when the time arrived for his trial in the county court he was able to give his own version of the fracas on Hatton common in intelligible English without the aid of an interpreter.
In this same hotel stayed the father of the young tough who had incidentally been thrown to the ground with Jo during the long-ago fracas that began all this trouble.
Bridget was recounting to her champion the fracas that had occurred; and he, as was so natural, was expressing his admiration at her valour.
And very little more outward fracas arose from the correspondence which followed than had arisen from the soft things so said.
I also surmised by his prompt disappearance when the fracas became serious that it would be very difficult to implicate my enemy, even if he did not turn the tables on me.
There was a fracas and he was shot--though the wound was only trifling.
A fracas seemed imminent and in fact began when the proprietor of the house, whose valor seems to have been considerably of a spirituous nature, backed out and the flag remained.
Toddles thought it over for a bit; decided he wouldn't have a fuss with a girl anyway, balked at a parlor car fracas with a drunk, dropped the coin back into his pocket, and went on into the combination baggage and express car.
The news of the fracashad not yet reached the Blazing Star.
You see, Toddles, since his fracas with Hawkeye, had been put on the Elk River local run that left Big Cloud at 9.
The Senior Dean being wise in his generation, and having a fairly shrewd idea as to how the unseemly fracas had arisen, and what was likely to be its result, dealt lightly with the offenders.
Two hours later they rode slap into a war party, and the fracas was on.
The loss of the Honorable Mr. Dean's right eye in an early pioneer fracas did not prevent him from looking into the dim vista of the future and discovering with that single unaided optic enough to fill three columns of the "Star.
Mr. Ford looked keenly from the one to the other, but rather with a suspicion that they were cognizant of his late fracas than belief in the truth of Johnny's statement.
It was not to be expected, albeit the place we had chosen was usually deserted at such an hour, that after the fracas at the "Soleil" our meeting would go unattended.
She's been through more than one such fracas and doesn't mind them at all, I dare say.
It would never do to go aboard the steamer before the fracas started ashore," he explained to Dolores.
There's the story of that girl,--and then that fracas at the station.
It is not impossible that such might have been the case had there been no fracas at the Paddington station; but, as we all know, the dominant cock of the farmyard must be ever dominant.
Their shells burst with appalling fracas over our batteries, but the brave British gunners never swerved.
There is a disagreeable little matter regarding a lady, and I fear a fracas with a man who is awaiting me outside in the Nevski.
But Philip Leithcourt took advantage of the fracas in order to make believe that he had fled because of Chater's arrival.
Amschel Mayer and Leonid Plekhanov were the center of the fracas and right now were at it hot and heavy.
Rykov was killed in a fracas with bandits while he was transporting some gold.
A fracas was always conducted with rapiers and daggers in those days, and must have been a picturesque, if inconvenient, event.
As a consequence of this fracas several Bohemians were executed for robbery with violence, which sheds a different light on the incident, but I do not think it matters much at this distance of time.
Fresh from my own little fracas I learned what a fool I had been, for in this case also the deed was done in open daylight, and the lawn had tight wires stretched across it.
It included getting ashore off the north point of land and nearly losing the craft; and also in Ramsey Harbour a fracas with the harbour authorities.
Curious eyes watched them pass by, for the news that there had been a serious fracas in the esquires' quarters had spread like wildfire through the castle.
