130 collocations for struggling

Connie struggled a little in that too tight hold.

In this unique style, after struggling three hours to get three miles over the port, we landed, all of us completely exhausted and drowned in spray.

I'd not pray for existence, Nor struggle my life to prolong, If, up some dark alley, with him I might dally Who wrote that new popular song.

Every minute the air grew heavier, and the sky darker, so that when about five in the afternoon we passed the Gap and struggled up the last hill to the stockade, it seemed as if night had already fallen.

Justly punished for wounding Redbud's hand, throwing Miss Fanny on her face, and periling the life of Longears, the unfortunate kite struggles a moment in the clouds, staggers from side to side, like a drunken man, and then caught by a sudden gust, sweeps like a streaming comet down into the autumn forest, and is gone.

I have often thought that they are like two rafts on the stormy sea of life, which otherwise would swamp and drown us struggling human beings.

In dead silence and in pitchy darkness I struggled up the stone steps, wondering what I should find at the next turning.

On the other side of the bridge, my friend the road struggled a few yards up a grassy slope, and there ceased.

From one or two offices struggled the dim gleam of an early candle, by whose light some perplexed accountant sat belated, and hunting for his error.

He had come to know that Brooks was indeed an expert, and should the latter decide that his claim was of value it meant that for which he had been struggling a long time, as he had said, for fifteen years.

Struggling upward and other works.

The Spirit stood beside sick-beds, and they were cheerful; on foreign lands, and they were close at home; by struggling men, and they were patient in their greater hope; by poverty, and it was rich.

Maxton, struggling all the way, was dragged to the door, and cast out into the playground.

I drowsed, and wondered whether the telegraph was a blessing, and whether this dying man, or struggling people, might be aware of the inconvenience the delay was causing.

Together we dragged it into position, forcing relentlessly back as we did so, a dozen struggling figures frantically endeavoring to reach the deck.

Yo'n struggled reet nobly, an' battled reet hard, While things han bin lookin' so feaw; Yo'n borne wi' yo're troubles and trials so long, It's no use o' givin' up neaw.

This made him struggle the harder to get his hand free.

Leaving the stream, we struggled up the bank through a dense jungle, and in a few minutes reached the bottom of a precipitous slope.

Now, a far more touching history may have lurked under these facts than in the half-concealed and misleading circumstances of the received storylong patience, long duty, struggling conscience, exhausted hope.

From that radiant constellation which both illumines our own way and points out to struggling nations their course, let but a single star be lost, and, if there be not utter darkness, the luster of the whole is dimmed.

My own blessings only brought more vividly to my mind the masses of toiling, struggling, poverty-stricken fellow-creatures, from whom the pressure of want shuts out the light of life.

In the middle of this group three men, who had been arrested, were struggling crying, "Long live the Constitution!

He was struggling, struggling with his body of leadfor one stepjust a step nearer the great curtain, that now glowed warmredred as the ghost of her cardinal-flower lipspillars of light, as of the halls of heaven. "Aurore!Aurore!" MR.

Harriot struggled several days to follow him, but found it impossible, so we gave up the chase after cubes and squares, and she devoted herself wholly to the study of the language.

It requires considerable dexterity to secure these monsters; for when they are hauled up near to the skins, they struggle a good deal, and if they happen to jerk the fisherman from his seat, the infuriate monster dashes at once at him.

130 collocations for  struggling