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Sentences starting with struggle

Struggle as she might, she could not henceforth extract it. [9]
Struggle for life everywhere, and perhaps no more discontent and heart-burning and certainly less ennui than in the palaces on the avenues. [4]

Sentences ending with struggle

Even the serious young lawyer succumbed, though not without a struggle. [9]
He remained at Yale two years, and then threw up the struggle. [5]
Your life is worth fighting for, but it will be a struggle. [11]
Mabry fell pierced with twenty buckshot, and almost instantly O'Connor fell dead without a struggle. [5]
The man who was attacked flung him on the pavement in the struggle. [10]
Life was always war with him, or some semblance of a struggle. [9]
It was no use to struggle. [11]
He was levying upon the vital forces remaining in him, which, distributed naturally, might cover a year or so, to give him here and now a few moments of unnatural strength for the completion of a hopeless struggle. [11]
They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. [7]
At last Petrus turned to his guest and said, "You were to tell me how the shepherdess Miriam lost her life in the struggle. [10]

Short sentences using struggle

A good struggle was forward. [11]
There is no such struggle! [7]
They begin to struggle. [9]
The image of struggle. [9]
Then came a struggle. [11]
The struggle is decided now. [10]
Suddenly there was a struggle. [9]

Sentences containing struggle two or more times

Why struggle, unless we struggle for something definite? [9]
He was still the victim to a poison which gave not only a struggle of body, but a struggle of soul--if he had a soul. [11]
The disaster of the house of Mavick was not accepted without a struggle, lasting long after the public interest in the spectacle had abated--a struggle to save the ship and then to pick up some debris from the great wreck. [4]
It was not the charming scene that held her thought, but the city with its human struggle, and in that struggle one figure was conspicuous. [4]
For hours the struggle for the murderer went on, a struggle of mind over inferior mind and matter. [11]
The rather long period of his struggle, which is a common struggle, and often disheartening, need not be dwelt on here. [4]
But another kind of letter came to me--the letter of some man who had just such a struggle as Charley Steele, or whose father or brother or friend had had such a struggle. [11]
Ian, I could not bear to see what would come at last--the disappointment in your face the look of hope gone from your eyes; your struggle to climb, and the struggle of no avail. [11]
A few hours before he had had a struggle with Soolsby, and now another struggle on the same theme was here. [11]

More example sentences with the word struggle in them

And after the young woman had told with great simplicity and earnestness of the struggle to support herself and lead an honest and self-respecting existence, it seemed to Honora that at last she had opened the book of life at the proper page. [9]
I can tell you, as one who knows, that there is no corporation in this country which, in the struggle to maintain itself, is not forced to adopt the natural law of the survival of the fittest, which you condemn. [9]
For the services you have done in this great struggle in which we are engaged, I present you sincere thanks for myself and the country. [7]
Although we struggle, yet by habit, by self-indulgence, by lack of a sustained purpose, we have formed a character from which escape seems hopeless. [9]
Again, in the years of my struggle for livelihood which followed, I dreamed of her; I pictured her often in the midst of the darkness of the Revolution. [9]
All the adults would marry or pair, and all the offspring, as far as that was possible, would be reared; so that the struggle for existence would be periodically excessively severe. [1]
She was miserably worn and tired, by the long day's struggle and by illness, or she must have noticed the effect of that speech and divined the reason of it. [5]
After these farewell words Frau Maria's features became painfully distorted, the lids drooped over her eyes, there was a brief struggle, then a slight gesture from the physician announced to the weeping group that her earthly pilgrimage was over. [10]
You will not wonder that I address myself chiefly to those who are just leaving academic life for the sterner struggle and the larger tasks of matured and instructed manhood. [3]
But the old woman's struggle between the duty that kept her near the fire and the love that drew her away from it was not of long duration. [10]
With me, as with yourself, the long struggle has been one of great pecuniary loss. [7]
The material difficulties with which the head-master had had to struggle after the erection of the large new buildings were also removed when Froebel's prosperous brother in Osterode decided to take part in the work and move to Keilhau. [10]
Our quarrel is with Parliament and the Admiralty; our struggle is with the people of the kingdom, who have not seen to it that our wrongs are put right, that we have food to eat, water to drink, and money to spend. [11]
There is nothing which, for pathos and for tragedy, can compare with a struggle between the young and the old. [11]
For the part which you and the brave army of which you are a part have, under Providence, performed in this great struggle, I tender more thanks especially to this regiment, which has been the subject of good report. [7]
The struggle in which we are engaged was inevitable; it might have come a little sooner, or a little later, but it must have come. [6]
The art to which he had gained entrance by so severe a struggle, and on whose soil he had laboured diligently enough, proved, so far as outward recognition was concerned, cruel to the enthusiastic disciple. [10]
There were times when Jim's nerves were shaken in his struggle against the unseen foe, and he had spoken to her querulously, almost sharply. [11]
He knew well what the old chair-maker had come to say, but, in the prologue of the struggle before him, he was unwittingly manoeuvring for position. [11]
You don't know what it is, to be all alone, and have to struggle against every one. [10]
The Hawkins family were settled there, and had a hard enough struggle with poverty and the necessity of keeping up appearances in accord with their own family pride and the large expectations they secretly cherished of a fortune in the Knobs of East Tennessee. [5]
His last days were evidently passed in a struggle for existence, which was not so bitter to him as it might have been to another man, for he was sustained by ever-elating "great expectations. [4]
Twice in one week did this fever surge up in him, and it caught him in those moments when, exhausted by the struggle of his mind to adapt itself to the new conditions, his senses were delicately susceptible. [11]
You remember when we were in the depths of the woods last summer how difficult it was to get up any interest in the files of late papers that reached us, and how unreal all the struggle and turmoil of the world seemed. [4]
The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me. [7]
When at last we came to a badly ruptured bit of masonry, with hoof-prints evidencing a desperate struggle to regain the lost foothold, I looked quite hopefully over the dizzy precipice. [5]
Look on the waves: their stormy voices teach That not on earth may toil and struggle cease. [6]
It's human life, Washington--just an epitome of human ambition, and struggle, and the outcome: you aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer. [5]
She felt it was to be a struggle between them, and she must be alert and persuasive, and match him word for word, move for move. [11]
In Sally's eyes was the story of the past three years: of love and temptation and struggle, of watchfulness and yearning and anxiety, of determination and an inviolable hope. [11]
Her lover henceforth was no longer her enemy; and as the tumult of the struggle by the breach fell on her ear, she could think with joy of his victorious arms. [10]
But Cynthia, who was listening with one ear while Susan talked into the other, gathered that Jethro had been struggling with the railroads, and was sooner or later to engage in a mightier struggle with them. [9]
And so I was led to perceive that I was not to be the only aggressor in the struggle that was to come. [9]
Small wonder he was idolized by the Watauga settlers, that he had been their leader in the struggle of Franklin for liberty. [9]
Sometimes this quiet was broken by bitter news from France, of fresh persecution, and fresh struggle on the part of the Huguenots. [11]
The French Revolution was a struggle for political freedom; the underlying issue of the present war is economic freedom--without which political freedom is of no account. [9]
Her death struggle was a short one; she had only time and strength to extend a hand to lay on each before she herself was a corpse. [10]
One thing only was a pang to his vanity: No succeeding generations would preserve the memory of his heroic struggle and death for the cause of the gods. [10]
She heard the warning voice of her companion, she saw the crowd staring at her, she had, no doubt, a brief struggle with her maidenly shyness, but she carried out her purpose. [10]
Yet an insistent voice urged her on, whispering that to remain at home, inactive, was to go mad; salvation and relief lay in plunging into the struggle, in contributing her share toward retribution and victory. [9]
He was a very busy man, in the thick of the struggle for a great fortune. [4]
At last the vain struggle was ended by an interruption from without. [10]
I was only vaguely conscious of her presence, for during my severe struggle I could see nothing but my adversary. [10]
He was called upon to legislate for America and direct her policy when all Europe was the battlefield of contending dynasties, and when the struggle for supremacy imperilled the rights of all neutral nations. [7]
Finally she gave up the unavailing struggle, cooled her burning face with cold water, and tightened the straps of her sandals to go to the temple; near the god himself she hoped she might in some degree recover the peace she could not find here. [10]
But the most unpleasant part of the publicity was the rumour that the match was connected with the struggle for Miss Manners's hand. [9]
The struggle began under the direction of the older pupils, and the grip on which I had relied did not fail. [10]
He died, after twenty minutes' struggle, on Sunday morning, September 24th. [14]
This struggle is too large for you to be diverted from it by any small matter. [7]
And I have told her about Annie's excellent house-keeping, also about the great Bacon conflict; (I told you it was a hundred to one that neither Livy nor the European powers had heard of that desolating struggle. [5]
The struggle of to-day is not altogether for to-day; it is for a vast future also. [7]
The issues seem to vary, but it is always a right against a claim, and, however the struggle of the hour may go, a movement onward of the campaign, which uses defeat as well as victory to serve its mighty ends. [6]
All indications point to the fiercest struggle the state has ever seen in June, when the Legislature meets. [9]
The King continued to struggle in the woman's strong grasp, and now and then cried out in vexation-- "Unhand me, thou foolish creature; it was not I that bereaved thee of thy paltry goods. [5]
The Prince continued to struggle for freedom, and to rage against the treatment he was suffering, until John Canty lost what little patience was left in him, and raised his oaken cudgel in a sudden fury over the Prince's head. [5]
Man is born to struggle and to work, but in this, as in everything else, he must know how to be moderate if his efforts are to succeed. [10]
To be able to struggle and conquer, she must not withdraw from life and its influences, which, if she did not spare herself, promised to transform her into the resolute woman she desired to become. [10]
It was impossible to struggle against this trick of wrestling, which Laflamme had learned from a famous Cornish wrestler, in a summer spent on the English coast. [11]
She was obliged to struggle against these harbingers of the coming tempest, and her heart grew lighter during the conflict. [10]
You have only to see who are our friends and who are our enemies in this struggle, to decide for what principles we are combating. [6]
Painfully, pausing frequently to ponder over these remnants, so eloquent of the fury of the struggle, slipping backward at every step and despite our care getting tangled in the wire, we made our way up the slope. [9]
I went back to Louisville to take up once more the struggle for practice, and I do not intend to charge so much as a page with what may be called the even tenor of my life. [9]
This had happened to him just as he commenced the struggle for a new life. [10]
Far from attempting to hide or ignore the struggle by which she and her husband had attained their present position, she referred with the utmost naivete to incidents in her career, while the whole table paused to listen. [9]
Yet the struggle to forget him constantly recalled him to her mind, no matter how earnestly she strove to shut out his image whenever it appeared. [10]
It is not to be wondered at that people crave office, some salaried position, in order to escape the anxieties, the personal responsibilities, of a single-handed struggle with the world. [4]
It was ended, to be sure, but the struggle with Jack in his new life was not ended, his biographer knows, for months and years. [4]
It was not to be expected that these habits would be overcome without a long struggle and many back-slidings. [4]
What I want to ask your attention to; at this point, is that Illinois and Missouri came into the Union about the same time, Illinois in the latter part of 1818, and Missouri, after a struggle, I believe sometime in 1820. [7]
For a long time, Milo exerted all his strength to shake him oft, but in vain, and the sand of the Stadium was freely moistened by the great drops of sweat, the result of this Herculean struggle. [10]
There was no time to struggle. [11]
I had no time for reflection, for before I could gain any certain information by word of mouth, a captain of the heathen had seized me, and we came to a life and death struggle before Miriam's very eyes. [10]
To send them through the public schools had been a struggle. [9]
We had gone through our struggle and secured our own independence. [7]
During the next three years he was distracted by the financial struggle which ended in April, 1894, with the failure of Charles L. Webster & Co. Mark Twain now found himself bankrupt, and nearly one hundred thousand dollars in debt. [5]
I trusted Alixe, though I knew well that this hour would see the great struggle in her between this scoundrel and myself. [11]
I believed that this day would see the last of the strife between England and France for dominion here; of La Pompadour's spite which I had roused to action against my country; of the struggle between Doltaire and myself. [11]
In such regions they congregate, and seem to like the vicissitudes, to like the excitement of the struggle with the weather and the patent medicines to keep alive. [4]
Over their coffee they both talked from long distances towards the point of attack and struggle, Ismail carelessly throwing in glowing descriptions of the palaces he was building. [11]
Why struggle with these things in literature and in life? [4]
He had left these quiet scenes inexperienced and untravelled, to be thrust suddenly into the thick of a struggle of nations over a sick land. [11]
The struggle between them was over; she had had her way--to save the preacher, impostor though he was; and now she felt, as she had never felt before in the same fashion, that this man was a man of men. [11]
And now had the whole world reached such a boundary line in existence beyond which there was to be no more freedom and careless joy--where a ceaseless struggle for higher things must begin and never end? [10]
She has been the watcher of the world, the one who looks on, and suffers, as the rest of the nations struggle for and wound her in their turn. [11]
The king saw the two engaged in a struggle, but he could not interfere, for the reins which Mena had dropped were dragging on the ground, and his ungoverned horses, following the lions, carried him madly onwards. [10]
They spend freely the ten cents that is not saved without a struggle. [5]
The thunder of the supreme struggle and its reverberations will shake the continents for months, and will be felt from Pole to Pole. [4]
Duty won in the struggle, and the Governor gave his word that he would not again respite the condemned man. [5]
Setchem had seen the struggle from her litter at the top of the landing steps, but without understanding its origin, and without recognizing the chief actors. [10]
Their efforts in the struggle for the portfolio were the only sounds audible, but it was evident that if the princess did speak, her words would not be flattering to Anna Mikhaylovna. [2]
In this case the struggle between our higher and lower impulses will be less severe, and virtue will be triumphant. [1]
In him was the spiritual element asserting itself in a mediaeval form, in a struggle to mortify and deny the flesh and yet take part in modern life. [4]
And there, in the silence of her chamber, began the fierce struggle between desire and what she called her duty--a duty imposed from without. [4]
Until that moment the revolt had been personal, local, founded on a particular grievance which had to do with wages and the material struggle for existence. [9]
He thought, as the priest went on with the solemn liturgy, how all the world must come together in that peace which, struggle and strive as we may, shall claim us at last. [8]
That will help the people to see where the struggle really is. [7]
Let each let the other alone, and there is no struggle about it. [7]
The men and the officers fell back as Castine and Ferrol clinched in a death struggle. [11]
For a moment the murderer did not speak or stir, for a struggle was going on in his breast also; then he stooped quickly, caught his companion's hand, and kissed it. [11]
Eldon Parr and the men who stand with him in the struggle will never recover from the blow I shall give them. [9]

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