And then there's Hercules Fisticuff-" "Why, you know-to be sure you know that is a nick-name?"
"The Crofton Boys"
Harriet Martineau
Her resistance made me angry; and passing an audacious hand under the sheet I discovered that she was made like other women; but just as my hand was on the spot, I received a Fisticuff on the nose that made me see a thousand stars, and quite extinguished the fire of my concupiscence.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Once, and once only, I relaxed this rule in favour of two American women, who sent me to sleep by a lengthy quarrel of words, woke me in the night to witness its crisis in a Fisticuff duello, and left in the morning, after having taken a fancy to some of my moveables which were most easily removeable.
"Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands"
Mary Seacole Commentator: W. H. Russell