On entering the hut, the cause of this singular fracas was at once discovered: a man lying upon the floor-stripped to his shirt, and bound hand and foot!
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
On the contrary it only rendered the fearful fracas more difficult of explanation.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
Mr. Thomasson also had had his dark hour-since to be mixed up with, a fashionable fracas was one thing, and to lose a valuable and influential pupil, the apple of his mother's eye, was another; but it was past, and he gushed over with gratulations.
"The Castle Inn"
Stanley John Weyman