Tom would have been glad to challenge him to a bout at fisticuffs, for he was confident he could vanquish him in short order.
The situation was growing strained, and might well culminate in fisticuffs.
It is as though they were on the point of breaking into fisticuffs.
A dispute arising on this point, the two noble generals came to fisticuffs, and in the fracas our brave commander got his remaining well eye badly damaged.
