Battling

Examples

• With all his cruel ferocity and coldness there was an undercurrent of something in Tars Tarkas which he seemed ever battling to subdue. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• He went and leaned on the back of the chair again, and seemed to be battling with his own anger, while she looked towards him sadly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• For a time Gautama wandered alone, the loneliest figure in history, battling for light. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The golden-haired, white-skinned therns battling with desperate courage in hand-to-hand conflict with their ebony-skinned foemen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It must have been he whose men you have heard battling within the precincts of the temple. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• You would not wonder that I defend him, said the girl, could you have seen him as I saw him, battling in my behalf with that huge hairy brute. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• After battling for many tedious minutes with the precipice, the same scene presented itself to me, which had wrapt him in extatic wonder. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Unless I should chance to have the opportunity I have so long waited of battling with Tal Hajus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Quickly we glided toward a small flier which lay furthest from the battling warriors. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He was willing to do any amount of battling, but always wanted some one else to direct. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• No man in the service was more sincere in his devotion to the cause for which we were battling; none more ready to make sacrifices or risk life in it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He looks like a person who would enjoy battling with every adverse thing he could meet with--enemies, winds, or circumstances. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

Edited by Barbie