embroglio

Perhaps, too, we postponed war when a more bellicose people might have plunged blood-thirstily into the Balkan embroglio.

But right in the middle of the embroglio my brave Reddy seized the horse of a Uhlan by the mane.

This requires a few words of explanation, as the whole Schleswig-Holstein embroglio is based on it.

Mr. Lay was dismissed from the service of the Manchoo, through the "Vampyre" embroglio.