1 There was a start and a troubled gleam of recollection, and a struggle to arrange her ideas.
2 None could have noticed the exact minute of his death, it was so entirely without a struggle.
3 I guessed, however, by his irregular and intercepted breathing, that he struggled to vanquish an excess of violent emotion.
4 At the first finger his father laid on him, however, he shrieked again louder than before, and struggled as if he would go into convulsions.
5 Heathcliff, on the second thoughts, resolved to avoid a struggle against three underlings: he seized the poker, smashed the lock from the inner door, and made his escape as they tramped in.
6 He struggled long to keep up an equality with Catherine in her studies, and yielded with poignant though silent regret: but he yielded completely; and there was no prevailing on him to take a step in the way of moving upward, when he found he must, necessarily, sink beneath his former level.
7 Thereat, Catherine silently turned her face from us, and, very stealthily, drew out her pocket-handkerchief and applied it to her eyes; and her cousin, after struggling awhile to keep down his softer feelings, pulled out the letter and flung it on the floor beside her, as ungraciously as he could.