Possible Clues:

• Engaged in combat
• Brawling
• Reversal at start of affair after figure is struggling
• Combat - contention
• Sounds as if you'll have no piece of this thing in a fig
• Thing wriggling inside fruit stem with head bitten off taking long time before fury shown in the 1
• Disturbed night after fellow soldier's return to combat
• Ship painted by Turner
• Hostilities
• At it