23 Verbs to Use for the Word wrestling

In some cases he advises common wrestling; in others, wrestling with the hands only.

Whence it appeareth that wrestling and protesting against even an overcoming corruption, may evidence more of grace, than freedom from some evils, to which some are not so much tempted, and to which they are naturally less inclined.

Her mother would give her energetic advice, and bid her wrestle in prayer until peace came.

"Broke it wrestling," said the boy.

But I must get into training and brush up my wrestling and boxing.

Now, roused from his perusal by Najib's query, Logan saw that the little Syrian has ceased wrestling with the shipment items and was peering over his employer's shoulder, his beady eyes fixed in keen curiosity on the printed page.

There was an attack of fearful prostrationthe valves of the heart had faileda very wrestling with Death, and then the grim shadow drew backwards.

There too, the master is he who presents the natural shape, the curves, the thews of men, and does not labour and seek praise for faithful reproduction of the mere moral drapery of the hour, this or another; who gives you Hercules at strife with Antaeus, Laocoon writhing in the coils of the divine serpents, the wrestle with circumstance or passion, with outward destiny or inner character, in the free outlines of nature and reality.

I heard the shuddering wrestle of his whole body.

"And as for the capable young woman: do I or do I not recollect a dark night on the German frontier when she was glad enough to call on a sleepy fellow pilgrim to help her wrestle with a particularly thick-headed customs officer?"

Thy brothers in the village street now joyful lead the wrestling

All the night he had lain wrestling with fear and doubt: fear was hard upon him, but doubt was much harder.

But they chose to bring it in manslaughter, and he's only got five years; while some brainless fool must needs write an article a column and a half long to protest against the disgraceful practice of permitting wrestling or boxing matches, which are a survival of the Dark Ages and a perpetual menace to our civilization!

So he went on again with his running and leaping and throwing and lifting; and he practiced wrestling, also, and tamed the wild horses of the plain, and hunted the lions among the mountains; and his strength and swiftness and skill were the wonder of all men, and old Troezen was filled with tales of the deeds of the boy Theseus.

It was jocund Luther himself who took it under his especial sanction, as he did the fiddle and the dance, in his sweet large-heartedness finding Scriptural precedents for it, and encouraging the youths who came trooping to Wittenberg to relieve their wrestling with Aristotle and the dreary controversy with an occasional play.

It is a mark of a shallow mind to scorn these theological wrestlings and surgings; they have had in them something even sublime.

He said he had seen me wrestle.

Don Alonzo, feeling himself wounded unto death, dropped his sword and seized the Good Knight in his arms, the two wrestling fiercely until they both fell on the ground.

A good man does not spend his life wrestling with the Powers of Darkness.

Psmithfor even the greatest minds will sometimes unbendwas wrestling with a Yo-Yo.

I want more work; and especially I want a wrestle with Euclid.

And, in my anguish, I thought on thee, and sent to thee Sir Benedict, and watched thee wrestle, and at stroke of sword, and praised God for thy goodly might and strength.

Thus we walked to Carn Brea and witnessed the wrestling, the common game of the country.

23 Verbs to Use for the Word  wrestling