On we dash boldlydown rushes the stream with a roar of defiance; arrived midway, a deadly struggle ensues between boiling water and running water; we tremble in the balance of victorythe rushing waters triumph; we sound a retreat, which is put in practice with the caution of a Xenophon, and down we glide into the stiller waters below.

The struggle centres round the Austro-Serbian dispute.

But Verdun and Jutland faded in succeeding months before the terrible first-hand evidence that the constant diminution of food made life a struggle day after day and week after week.

If the pot is too spacious the struggle element is removed and the chances are that the cactus will die.

" And though in ruin now her body lies, A peaceful smile upon her face is spread: The struggle o'erher spirit upward flies, To join the spirits of the blessed dead.

If triumph's easy smile our struggles greet, Courage is easy then; The king is he who, after fierce defeat, Can up and fight again.

Then either a successful sortie broke the ranks of the assailants and sent them back to their forest camp in wild disorder, or, the stockade giving way, the stormers swept in like a wave of the sea, and all was chaos and wild struggle hand to hand.

Many of the theological disputes which have agitated New England have arisen in the honest effort to reconcile accepted forms of faith with the observed phenomena and real needs of the soul in its struggles heavenward.

While we could not but rejoice that one more saint had got safely and without a struggle home, we felt the exceeding disappointment you must have had in losing the last smile you came so near receiving.

Throughout the struggle individuals must have the necessities of daily life.

This is one of the unfortunate sacrifices such a struggle involves.

However, the picture started changing after the Liberation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and the freedom struggle movement to liberate Goa from the clutches of the Portuguese.

Well, that was struggle number one.

Till thirty were not left alive 65 They dwindled, dwindled, one by one; And I may say, that many a time I wished they all were gone Reckless of what might come at last Were but the bitter struggle past.

PART IIITHE BREAKING STRAIN CHAPTER I THE FIRST STRUGGLE The engine-room floor-plates slanted, and light and shadow played about the throbbing machinery.

The silence of a death-struggle prevails.

Now the struggle area has become regional.

I many times thought peace had come, When peace was far away; As wrecked men deem they sight the land At centre of the sea, And struggle slacker, but to prove, As hopelessly as I, How many the fictitious shores Before the harbor lie.