41 collocations for grappling

You tell me Mr. Griffin fairly grappled the lugger's cable?" "Of that there can be no manner of doubt.

The stout Bernese grappled his assailant, and the struggle became fierce as that of brutes.

'The metal good and the walnut-wood Did soon in splinters flee; They tossed the orts to south and north, And grappled knee to knee.

He was aided by Constantine Canaris and George Pepinis, equal to him in courage, who succeeded in grappling the ships of the enemy and setting them on fire.

But, let the number of these imparters of information be ever so great, we have reason to doubt whether any other of these accomplished parties has grappled with so formidable, so tremendous a subject, as that which is now exciting the powerful mind of Miss LILLIAN EDGARTON.

But in his present condition Marian's husband could not have grappled a child, and he knew it.

Under me yawns the grave, under me lies the shoal Where the whirling eddies wait to grapple the drowning crew, And the hungry quicksand hides the bones of the ship it slew.

The motion of the wire was then made to actuate the recorder through a hinged lever, and this arrangement holds, but days and even weeks have been lost in grappling the difficulties of adjustment between the limits of the tide and those of the recording drum; then when all seemed well we found that the floe was not rising uniformly with the water.

Again, we will grapple this evil by voting only for sober men.

No one can doubt that the hearty determination evinced by Masolino and Masaccio to deal with actual life, to grapple to their souls the visible forms of humanity, and to reproduce the types afterwards in new, vivid, breathing combinations of dignity and intelligent action, must have had an immense effect upon the course of Art.

Crane HALF A DOZEN INDIANS BOLTED IN R F Babcock HE FISHED OUT AN OLD BUNGTOWN CENT R F Babcock CHASING THE GEESE TO GET A NEW QUILL R F Babcock THE FIRE SHIP GRAPPLED THE SPANIARD Everett E Lowry BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (Halftone)

Qualities were conspicuous in his life that bound worldlings to him in a bond of fellowship that grappled the best that was in them.

Unless the morning's trumpet brings A shock of glory to your soul, Unless the ecstasy that sings Through rushing worlds and insects' wings, Sends you upspringing to your goal, Glad of the need for toil and strife, Eager to grapple hands with Life Say not, "I live!" Say not, "I live!"

'He has not indeed many hooks; but with what hooks he has, he grapples very forcibly,' ii. 57. HOPE.

'He has not indeed many hooks; but with what hooks he has, he grapples very forcibly,' ii. 57. HOPE.

Accordingly, the signal having been given on both sides, they charged each other with the beaks of their ships, and neither did they draw back their own, nor allow the ships of the enemy with which they were engaged to separate from them, having thrown then grappling irons, and thus the battle was carried on in such close quarters, that they fought not only with missile weapons, but in a manner foot to foot even with their swords.

Rising in a rage, I grappled some man, tripped up his heels, got on his chest, and never left off belaboring him until I felt pretty sure that he would keep quiet during the rest of the soiree.

The sick woman grappled a moment with memory.

Three grabs grappled the President at once, but the boarders were beaten back, and all three were blown up and sunk, on which the rest of the squadron made off.

As a physician, Doctor Keene thus accomplished his end,the mental diversion of his late patient,for in the midst of the mist Frowenfeld encountered and grappled a problem of human life in Creole type, the possible correlations of whose quantities we shall presently find him revolving in a studious and sympathetic mind, as the poet of to-day ponders the "Flower in the crannied wall.

Plump into the water went a little wiry chap and grappled the rail.

Only has not the mistake been made of contending with and grappling results, when causes were in their hands?

"The panther lay close to the ground, with his eyes fixed intently upon the bear, his huge fore-paws nervously contracted, while the long claws grappled the rocks and gravel.

They had lowered a hook, and been clever enough to grapple the rope of the floating buoy.

I was first conscious of Bates grappling the sheriff, who sat upon me, and as they struggled with each other I got the full benefit of their combined, swerving, tossing weight.

41 collocations for  grappling