The evolutionist, therefore, is bound to grapple with the following problem whenever it is clearly put before him:Here are the Faunae of the same area during successive epochs.

But as he stared wildly about him, he presently heard a muffled cry, and spurring thitherwards, beheld two dim figures that swayed to and fro in a fierce grapple.

You can, no doubt, find men with business talent equal to ours and give them control; but you cannot give them the knowledge, gained by long experience, one needs to grapple with the particular difficulties the Cartwright line must meet.

The gale and the lee-shore are not pictures, but fierce realities, with which he has to grapple for life or death.

Coming out of these dreams, Alexander had to deal with such realities as the burning of Moscow, the Battle of Leipsic, and the occupation of France; yet, in the midst of those fearful timeswhen the grapple of the emperors was at the fiercest; in the very year of the burning of MoscowAlexander rose in calm statesmanship, and admitted Bessarabia into the empire under a proviso which excluded serfage forever.

Then Greek met Greek, and the death grapple began.

There is a great struggle to come, when Wolf and Raven shall grapple; but Keesh will not fight, nor will he let his people fight.

For it is said in the time to come, that the Raven shall grapple with the Wolf.

That moment the negro next to me seized the lance and held it firm in its place, while I dashed head foremost into the den to grapple with the snake, and to get hold of his tail before he could do any mischief.

Back there you see the new troops going in, girding themselves for the grapple as they go; you see the re-enforcements coming up; you see the supplies hurrying forward, and the spare guns and the extra equipment, and all the rest of it; you see, and can, after a dim fashion, grasp mentally, the thrusting, onward movement of this highly scientific and most unromantic industry which half the world began practicing in the fall of 1914.

He laid the case in all its horrors before his friend the Prime-minister, a man as ready as himself to grapple with and extinguish all proved abuses; and Pitt at once promised him all the support which he could give.

But he had not ventured to grapple with the institution which gave birth to that trade, the employment of slaves in our West India Islands.

A hundred years ago, Burke sought to impress on the existing ministers and Parliament the conviction that, "so long as our Colonies kept the idea of their civil rights associated with our government, they would cling and grapple to us, and no force under heaven would be of power to tear them from their allegiance."

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade.

Varro, the rough sensible scholar of Sabine descent, was a diligent collector of facts and traditions, but no more able to grapple hard with problems of philosophy or theology than any other Roman of his time.

He was well equipped to grapple with the mighty problem which he had been the first to conceive, since from early boyhood he had made electricity his chief study, and a comfortable income saved him from the grinding struggle for bare existence that many inventors have had to endure.

Her mind was unable to grapple with it.

Walk in, old Bob, and you shall soon grapple with half an ox.

Europe must grapple with this work of reconstruction handicapped by this black devil poisoning the mind and vitiating every effort.

And while the more and more sterile millions of the United States grapple with the legal and traditional difficulties that promise at last to arrest their development altogether, the rest of the world will be moving on to new phases.

Yet let thy Advent be the Soldier's song, No longer doom'd to grapple with the Foe With Teeth and NailsWhen close in view, and in Each-other's grasp, to grin, and hack, and stab; Then tug his horrid weapon from one breast To hide it in another:with clear hands He now expertly poizing thy bright tube, At distance kills, unknowing and unknown; Sees not the wound he gives, nor hears the shriek Of him whose breast he pierces....

When we are not able to defend ourselves from a great misfortune, there is one safety-valve,we may be able to grapple with some of its details.

Surprised, blinded and stunned by the blows, Sumner's first instinct was to grapple with his assailant.

That hope hath been discouraged; welcome light Dawns from the east, but dawns to disappear 125 And mock me with a sky that ripens not Into a steady morning: if my mind, Remembering the bold promise of the past, Would gladly grapple with some noble theme, Vain is her wish; where'er she turns she finds 130 Impediments from day to day renewed.

The charge at Roanoke Island, like the bayonet charge at Mill Springs, proves that the close grapple and sharp steel of loyal and patriotic soldiers must always put rebels and traitors to flight.