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Down went the heap of struggling men again and rolled over.
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I have Teacher and my books, and I have the certainty that something sweet and good will come to me in this great city, where human beings struggle so bravely all their lives to wring happiness from cruel circumstances.
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Herbert Spencer was a failure as an engineer, though he struggled years in that profession.
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And Bill struggles out, a muddy, trampled wreck, and in an unnecessarily aggressive mood—he being under the evident belief that the whole thing has been done on purpose.
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he whispered loudly, and the other two began to struggle his way.
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A kicking, struggling sound, mingled with stifled groans, seemed to show that the shot had been effective.
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I saw people struggling shorewards, and heard their screaming and shouting faintly above the seething and roar of the Martian's collapse.
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I struggled for my life all the rest of the day and the following night.
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Against this strong emotional drive there struggled the more moderate ideas of such Irish statesmen as Sir Horace Plunkett, who wished to see Ireland become a Dominion, a crowned republic that is, within the empire, on an equal footing with Canada and Australia.
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Beneath the superficial appearances of public affairs struggled a mute giant of public opinion and public will, who sometimes made some great political effort a rush to vote or such like, and sometimes broke into actual violence.
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With a roar like a wild beast, Carhayes sprang from his cover and, wrenching a heavy knob-kerrie from the hand of a dead Kafir, dashed among the fallen and struggling foe, striking to right and left, braining all those who showed the slightest sign of resistance or even of life.
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He had known what love was—a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling!
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In succeeding centuries, Bulgaria struggled with the Byzantine Empire to assert its place in the Balkans, but by the end of the 14th century the country was overrun by the Ottoman Turks.
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Give me to hold all sounds, (I madly struggling cry,) Fill me with all the voices of the universe, Endow me with their throbbings, Nature's also, The tempests, waters, winds, operas and chants, marches and dances, Utter, pour in, for I would take them all!
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But pretty soon he struggled up astraddle and grabbed the bridle, a-reeling this way and that; and the next minute he sprung up and dropped the bridle and stood!