Which preposition to use with grappling

with Occurrences 273%

He had not yet emerged from the eternity of the past, to grapple with the present, or encounter the retributions of the eternity which is to come.

in Occurrences 11%

The danger, the romance, the thrill of air fighting, are things that never were known in war until this one called into being vast aerial navies that grappled in the sky and rained upon the earth below "a ghastly dew" of blood.

with Occurrences 10%

On every hand there were signs of peacenot a fort, not a breastwork gave token that this was in a few months to be the shambles of mighty armies, the anchorage of that new wonder, the iron battle-ship; the scene of McClellan's miraculous victory at Malvern, of Grant's slaughtering grapplings with rebellion at bay, of Butler's comic joustings, and the last desperate onslaughts of Hancock's legions.

for Occurrences 8%

His near patrons received their papers in due time, but those at a distance will excuse him, he feels sure, when they consider what his feelings must have been, while grappling for an entire picnic.

of Occurrences 6%

The battle was the sudden grapple of aggressive weaknesscatching the half-contemptuous strong man unaware and rolling him in the dust.

to Occurrences 5%

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.

at Occurrences 4%

I grappled at once with the problem of Induction, postponing that of Reasoning, on the ground that it is necessary to obtain premises before we can reason from them.

after Occurrences 2%

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

on Occurrences 1%

Who, accordingly, has not awaked to find some problem already solved with which he had vainly grappled on the preceding day?

as Occurrences 1%

One more such grapple as the last and the broad plateau where the rebel artillery is massed, pointing westward, northward, eastward, will be won.

for Occurrences 1%

His ample forehead bore a coronet, With sparkling diamonds and with rubies set: Ten brace, and more, of greyhounds, snowy fair, And tall as stags, ran loose, and coursed around his chair, A match for pards in flight, in grappling for the bear: With golden muzzles all their mouths were bound, And collars of the same their necks surround.

in Occurrences 1%

They show Edward Endless grappling in the fight for clean politics.

near Occurrences 1%

Being doubtful whether their retreat proceeded from fear or a desire to decoy us into an ambuscade, we were determined not to be surprised, and therefore, running close in shore, we dropped the grappling near enough to reach them with our guns, but at too great a distance to be under any apprehensions from their treachery.

amid Occurrences 1%

It is also in keeping that the contest should have a half-grotesque and half-ghastly touch, the grapple amid the graves and the cracking ribs.

Which preposition to use with  grappling