I've seen you have a set-to in Figg's boxing shed. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
And I haven't had a decent set-to since Balaclava. From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Writer] Reference
I felt easier then, and set-to and sealed the door. From Wordnik.com. [Carnacki, the Ghost Finder] Reference
The crowd was enjoying the set-to of words immensely. From Wordnik.com. [Bruvver Jim's Baby] Reference
That little set-to wasn't won over the Song Ca River. From Wordnik.com. [On Yankee Station]
I had quite a set-to with him at the Meeting in 2012. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
It is a splendid set-to, full of alarming possibilities. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870] Reference
No such mitigating fact helps to explain today's set-to. From Wordnik.com. [The Confidence Game] Reference
We had a set-to about debt figures, jobs and immigration. From Wordnik.com. [How John Prescott got the better of me] Reference
"I'm not particularly concerned about some set-to in Lebanon.". From Wordnik.com. [Michael Schwartz: CIA Terror Bombings, Bob Gates, and The Rise of Hezbollah] Reference
And yet I would give anything to have another set-to with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Inspector-General] Reference
That made the babies yell too, and there wasn't half a set-to. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of the Vanished Prince]
But how he would have liked to have been a part of that set-to!. From Wordnik.com. [Carrie]
Besides, she hadn't seen Kris much since their last little set-to. From Wordnik.com. [Arrow's Fall]
"We were talking about your friendly set-to with John Steele," said. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
There were times when he would have welcomed a set-to with a bandit. From Wordnik.com. [A Circus of Hells]
A Punch and Judy show or a funeral will stop the most violent set-to. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
"She told me the other day after Jonathan and I had a set-to with him.". From Wordnik.com. [Disordered Minds]
He says when you left this morning the Andersens had a bit of a set-to. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
Why, we had a real set-to, and there were some folk killed, killed dead!. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
"Nothing like a cup pa when you've 'ad a bit of a set-to," he pointed out. From Wordnik.com. [A Kiss For Julie]
“Young men need to see some blood, after a set-to such as this,” he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
He flushed and stammered, and finally said: "I had another set-to with Father.". From Wordnik.com. [A Place Called Freedom]
This troubles me, chiefly because of PB's set-to with Delsol's cousin Tomas Obregon. From Wordnik.com. [American Tabloid]
Used to like to see a good honest set-to myself occasionally, before I became -- ahem!. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
"And I said market," Philip rejoins, with the smile of a fellow who enjoys a good set-to. From Wordnik.com. [The mission song]
"I've just been having a set-to with Lem -- and I don't know but he's got the best of me.". From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
When I saw him, I no longer wondered why I had failed to overcome him in our first set-to. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
And we set-to, and gathered together the boulders which did be very plentiful in that part. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land] Reference
They were to play Chicago in their home town, then work their way to New York for a final set-to with the. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles] Reference
No gentleman will ever settle himself in his chair, pushing back his cuffs, as if for a "set-to," at the table. From Wordnik.com. [Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.] Reference
So Peter got a fiddler and some other unmentionable requisites for a jig, and we had a set-to in firstrate style. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
It was only a few days after the opening of the school year when Billie had her first little set-to with Miss Cora Dill. From Wordnik.com. [Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall or, Leading a Needed Rebellion] Reference
This is certainly one for the connoisseurs of Sky News bust-ups, who cannot help but recall the Boulton-Campbell set-to of May 2010. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Bryant accuses Kay Burley of being 'a bit dim'] Reference
Mordens and other villages, and many a stubborn set-to has been witnessed there by hundreds of spectators from the surrounding districts. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference
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