Word: brawle
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...honest eye. The villagers mistrust her independence; they get drunk at her wedding but think her husband a queer, weak sort of man for her to pick. They are enlightened and glad when she is pregnant before her time. Her lover comes to the fair; there is a brawl, her husband is killed. Effie marries the schoolteacher, who has always loved her; a few months later her child is born, but it is weakly, and soon dies. Then the supposed murderer of her first husband is captured; Effie helps him escape, the village turns on her, stones her to death...
...Manhattan one Paul Arcabasio, 25, went to dance at the Beldon Social Club. There one of his friends declared that he was going to kiss a girl, did so. This caused a brawl during which Paul Arcabasio and his companions departed. Three hours later he felt pains, examined himself, discovered that he had been stabbed. His friends took him to a hospital where a day later he died...
...lynchings in 1929, six victims were taken from the hands of the Law. Offenses charged: rape, 3; writing insulting notes, 2; murder, 1; wounding a white man in a brawl, 1; wounding a law officer, 2; unreported...
...passionately loves him that she brutally jilts her own betrothed, forces Erlend's promised bride to suicide, marries Erlend herself. Then, goaded by the priesthood, her conscience slowly besets her. She carps at Erlend, embitters her seven sons, torments herself, until at last Erlend is killed in a brawl and she herself dies in a nunnery...
...Pomme de Pin. There he swilled many a mugful. With him were 3 young picklock and a less specialized, more versatile scoundrel. After that day's dawn, Villon's spare hours were habitually ill-spent. At the age of 24 he killed a man in a mysterious brawl. He devised elaborate tricks for the theft of rich provender and wines (after his death the noun Villonerie was common parlance for clever ruses). The raucous trulls at Fat Margot's knew him well. The haughtier but hardly more discriminate Katherine de Vausselles flippantly ignored his lust...