"To drag something out of a man with inflexibility, monomania and moral grappling-irons, and then not like it!

When I am birthed in one of your inner cabins, with a mug of flip and a kid of good Rhode Island beef within grappling distance, why, as many questions as you choose, and as many answers, you know, as suits my appetite.

The man released his grappling hold of Hatton's throat, and grunted, and sat down.

He had lost his right hand by some accident, and supplied it with a grappling hook, which he wielded with a tolerable adroitness.

At one that rolled along the ground, breaking shapelessly and trailing out reluctantly into long grappling ribbons and bands, all three horses began to shy and dance.

Then they grabbed them with some sort of invisible grappling beam or something and herded them toward the fifth ship.

Then followed a hard grappling sound and a hoarse yell.

The Great Eastern had proved entirely satisfactory, and it was hoped that with improvements in the grappling-gear the cable might be recovered.