Lexicographical Neighbors of Fistical
Literary usage of Fistical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"... moreover, was Tuesday,) Eighteen hundred and twenty-three, in a fistical
combat, Beat, in a handful of rounds, Bill Neat, the butcher of Bristol. ..."
2. The Metropolitan (1835)
"I was at this period nearly in my twelfth year, and, what with my rhyming, and
my fistical prowess— my character for bravery, and the peculiarity of my ..."
3. The Physiology of New York Boarding-houses by Thomas Butler Gunn (1857)
"... summons pursued tho invader to our chamber door, where overtaking him, he,
with his lady's assistance, administered severe fistical chastisement. ..."
4. Sketches in London by James Grant (1838)
"... in consequence of anything said or done by the latter,—and such things do
sometimes happen,—they can adjust their differences by a fistical decision; ..."
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