| 1. | 'No, she hasn't,' said Nancy, pale and breathless from the scuffle 'no, she hasn't, Fagin don't think it.. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | It appears the Company had received news that one of their captains had been killed in a scuffle with the natives. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 3. | In the scuffle which ensued Oedipus struck the old man with his heavy stick, and he fell back dead on the seat of the chariot. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 4. | In the meantime, we had no idea what to do to help the captain, nor any other thought but that he had got his death-hurt in the scuffle with the stranger. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 5. | The last I saw of them was, when I presently heard a scuffle behind me, and looking back, saw Joe throwing an old shoe after me and Biddy throwing another old shoe. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | He heard the sound of a scuffle and Sonya's disapproving voice "It's past one o'clock.. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 7. | Below me there was a great scuffle of feet on the iron deck confused exclamations a voice screamed, 'Can you turn back' I caught shape of a V-shaped ripple on the water ahead. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 8. | Then, the two nurses left the room, and had a lively scuffle on the staircase with a dissipated page who had waited at dinner, and who had clearly lost half his buttons at the gaming-table. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 9. | "And you remember that we came up with the two in a ditch, and that there was a scuffle between them, and that one of them had been severely handled and much mauled about the face by the other. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 10. | Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burs. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 11. | The Bandar-log howled with triumph and scuffled away to the upper branches where Bagheera dared not follow, shouting "He has noticed us Bagheera has noticed us. - from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |