Struggling

Examples

• I cried, struggling. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• They have all, after a short season of promise, dropped out of notice; and the only one that is still in the field, struggling for superiority, is the air engine. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Struggling and shrieking, his body, rolling from side to side, moved quickly toward the shadows beneath the trees. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• To my mind it symbolizes a view of the state which we are outgrowing, and throws into relief the view towards which we are struggling. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Here he was taken off his legs, and in swimming was carried round into the centre of the basin, where he perceived Wildeve struggling. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Instead of being present, the life and soul of that struggling Institution, he had engaged to make one of a party of worldlings at a morning concert! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• That there was any Fancy in them demanding to be brought into healthy existence instead of struggling on in convulsions? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Jo heard, but Amy was struggling to her feet and did not catch a word. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He is struggling to come back. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I and my enemy were still struggling, when the wounded man exclaimed, The Earl! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Now he is struggling harder to get back. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He is the husband of my affections,' cried Mrs. Micawber, struggling; 'and I ne--ver--will--desert Mr. Micawber! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• As we have already noted, this priestly caste was still only struggling to dominate Indian life in the days of Gautama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I had been struggling with tears for some time: I had taken great pains to repress them, because I knew he would not like to see me weep. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She produced it from her pocket with an air, after struggling with the gigantic door-key which had got upon the top of it and kept it down. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Whither will that spirit--now struggling to quit its material tenement--flit when at length released? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Poor simple lady, tender and weak--how are you to battle with the struggling violent world? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• So little Tarzan wriggled out from beneath the struggling mass, clutching his grisly prize close to his breast. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He fixed his eagle eye on a fantastic vision of nations rightly struggling to be free. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Light and darkness were struggling together, and the orient was streaked by roseate and golden rays. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The Rector was obliged to take up the money at a ruinous interest, and had been struggling ever since. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• My grub-worm is always a straitened, struggling, care-worn tradesman. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The next day was the first of March, and when I awoke, rose, and opened my curtain, I saw the risen sun struggling through fog. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He appeared to be struggling with various conflicting emotions for a few seconds, and then said in a low voice-- 'Tupman only wants your money. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Oh, Crispin, look at that nude youth struggling with the rearing horse! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It ain't that you've been a-struggling, mother, but you've been stiff and numbed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The purblind day was feebly struggling with the fog when I opened my eyes to encounter those of a dirty-faced little spectre fixed upon me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It is only in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that we find the Nordic intelligence struggling through again to expression. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mercy upon me,' said Mr. Pickwick, struggling violently, 'I hear somebody coming up the stairs. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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