Grappled
[græpəld]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Grapple
Edited by Juanita
Examples
- He's been under water a long time, Miss; but they've grappled up the body. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. Rochester flung me behind him: the lunatic sprang and grappled his throat viciously, and laid her teeth to his cheek: they struggled. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You should not have yielded: you should have grappled with her at once, said Mr. Rochester. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She stopped in speechless agitation, not crying, but feeling as if she were being inwardly grappled. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It closed with her in the darkness like some formless evil to be blindly grappled with. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Edited by Juanita