1 The yet levelled musket shook like a drunkard's arm against the panel; Starbuck seemed wrestling with an angel; but turning from the door, he placed the death-tube in its rack, and left the place.
2 No one seemed to be wrestling with such a terrific personal problem.
3 In his efforts against the numbing pain he was like a man wrestling with a creature of the air.
4 The back door was open, and as he came to the foot of the stairs he saw two men wrestling together outside.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires 5 I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 6 As he was fast making jam of his fruit by wrestling with the door while the paper-bags were under his arms, I begged him to allow me to hold them.
7 What I want I take if I can get it, and so I wrestle neither with angels nor devils.
8 There were many nonunion men among the Lithuanians, and with these he would labor and wrestle in prayer, trying to show them the right.
9 Previously he had never felt obliged to wrestle too seriously with this question.
10 He could have settled her with a well-planted blow; but he would not strike: he would only wrestle.
11 Mr. Micawber kissed her hand, retired to the window, and pulling out his pocket-handkerchief, had a mental wrestle with himself.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY 12 On different levels ourselves went forward; flower gathering some on the surface; others descending to wrestle with the meaning; but all comprehending; all enlisted.
13 Some exercise their limbs in tournament on the greensward, contend in games, and wrestle on the yellow sand.
14 Many of them were as poor as I was, and, besides having to wrestle with their books, they had to struggle with a poverty which prevented their having the necessities of life.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter III. 15 All day and all night for nearly a whole week they wrestled with the problem, and then in the end Jurgis took the responsibility.