tea-fight

"I think I'd shy just as quickly at an American tea-fight," he said at length.

The Spanish Chest Edna Adelaide Brown

"I should not have thought wild horses would have dragged you to a tea-fight."

The Village by the River H. Louisa Bedford

Now she was very pretty, with dancing blue eyes and a profusion of golden curls; she had, too, a most winning manner, hard for any one to resist; and these personal attractions, added to style of dress that had never been seen or imagined among the simple country-folk, rendered her a most important person, so that no "tea-fight" or merry-making was complete without Nelly Curtis.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

"Oh, Miss Connie's gone to a tea-fight of some kind," replied Mr. Max, giving Frances another mischievous glance.

The Spanish Chest Edna Adelaide Brown

Tantalising to Tom Taylor, who has to dine elsewhere; and Thackeray leaves early, to go to an 'episcopal tea-fight,' as he tells us -- a jump 'from lively to severe,' to

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

You see, we'd signalled her, and she'd not taken any notice, and that seemed queer, as we couldn't have been more than three or four hundred yards off her port beam, and it was a fine evening; so that we could almost have had a tea-fight, if they'd seemed a pleasant crowd.

The Ghost Pirates: Appendix 1909

Do you cotton to the tea-fight views, or the old red 'ot boguey business?'

The Ebb-Tide Lloyd Osbourne 1907

The building was opened with a tea-fight and a dance, and answered its purpose very well up to the time of the first heavy rains; then studies had to be postponed indefinitely, for the floor was a foot under water.

The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy Edward Dyson 1898

It was very like an American tea-fight in the country, and the audience were unquestionably enthusiastic.

Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861

Miss Drew, having occasion to pass through Portsmouth on their way home, learned that there was to be a tea-fight at the Institute, and Marion immediately said, "I should like _so_ much to see it!"

Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan 1859