Twice, for the same reason, she had had tussles with Chaff.
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions
"I have had many tussles with uncertainty before," he told Dolly, going down one evening, "but never such vexation of the mind as now.
"Springhaven A Tale of the Great War"
R. D. Blackmore
The keepers were accustomed to tussles with insane patients, and they were ready for a fight with Horace North, and to do anything to force him into the carriage waiting at the Manor House.
"The Man with a Shadow"
George Manville Fenn