scuffle

All of a sudden Robbers rushed upon them from their hiding-places, and in the scuffle with their owners, wounded with a sword the Mule carrying the treasure, which they greedily seized while taking no notice of the grain.

I heard oaths and the confused sounds of a scuffle.

He dogs the fellow, he sees him enter a house, he waits outside for him, and in the scuffle he receives his own death-wound.

There he was dogged by his confederate, who held Beppo responsible for the loss of the pearl, and he stabbed him in the scuffle which followed.”