He flinched a little, then shot through the air, and landed heavily, one knee on each side, pinning the fellow down as he grappled underneath for the throat.

" "But"obliquely Lanyard struck again at the heart of the mystery which he found so baffling"you seem so well satisfied with the bona fides of your informant?" There was a sound of stertorous breathing as the intelligence behind the mutter grappled with this utterance.

'There againdon't you see something move under that marl bank?' Tregarva watched a moment, and then ran up to the spot, and throwing himself on his face on the edge, leant over, grappled somethingand was instantly, to Lancelot's astonishment, grappled in his turn by a rough, lank, white dog, whose teeth, however, could not get through the velveteen sleeve.

'There againdon't you see something move under that marl bank?' Tregarva watched a moment, and then ran up to the spot, and throwing himself on his face on the edge, leant over, grappled somethingand was instantly, to Lancelot's astonishment, grappled in his turn by a rough, lank, white dog, whose teeth, however, could not get through the velveteen sleeve.

'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.

Again his throat writhed and wrestled as he grappled after forgotten words.

He essayed to sling her across his shoulder, but she grappled with him, tearing and scratching at his face.

"A few of the notices are written with some pains, but not one of them has really grappled with the chief idea in the appendix.

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

He was sure that his chance of winning the woman he loved lay in living to win her, and he grappled his soul to his frail body with every thrill of energy that his dying nerve had left, with all the tense moral grip that love and despair can give.

The metal good and the walnut wood Did soon in flinders flee; They tost the orts to south and north, And grappled knee to knee.

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.

But when this old Adam of resentment rose in me and tempted me concerning Bartleby, I grappled him and threw him.

In philosophical receptivity too the brightest and finest minds among this aristocracy show an ability which is almost astonishing, when we consider that there had been no education in Rome worth the name until the second century B.C.[170] I use the word receptivity, because the Romans of our period never really learnt to think for themselves; they never grappled with a problem, or struck out a new line of thought.

The two ships grappled, and, lashed side by side in the moonlight, fought one of the most desperate battles in naval annals.

In these hints I began with my third volume, then proceeded to my second, and last of all grappled with the first.

Knowles looked about him as into a seething caldron, in which the people I tell you of were atoms, where the blood of uncounted races was fused, but not mingled,where creeds, philosophies, centuries old, grappled hand to hand in their death-struggle,where innumerable aims and beliefs and powers of intellect, smothered rights and triumphant wrongs, warred together, struggling for victory.

But however He may deal with the sinner, we are always made to feel that to Jesus sin is a serious thing, a problem not to be slurred over and made light of, but to be faced, and met, and grappled with.

For when skilfully she led the talk on his plans, she hunted down elusive problems, grappled with them, and offered him the solutions of a sure instinct.

I thought of the danger out of which I had plucked him while in Louisville, of the force with which I had grappled him with hooks of steel, as he hung on the outer edge of that precipice of dissipation, while I clung to the Almighty Arm for help.

And thus that powerful Suta and the Pandava, intoxicated with strength and challenging each other, grappled with each other at midnight in that solitary place.

Roberts, however, observing more than ordinary bustle on board, at once concluded they were discovered, and pouring a broadside into her, they immediately boarded, grappled, and took her.

Men have grappled with the social evil without success.

He stamped it down again with his boot-heel, dropped the pick and grappled it with both straining hands.

The difficulty with which he grappled was one so immense that we shall have to be separated from it by many centuries before we can really judge of it.