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Sentences starting with struggling

Struggling to get up, the mule kicked the candle out and smashed most of the kitchen furniture, and raised considerable dust. [5]
Struggling was of no use with a halter round his windpipe, and he very soon began to tremble and stagger,--blind, no doubt, and with a roaring in his ears as of a thousand battle-trumpets,--at any rate, subdued and helpless. [6]
Struggling around, A managed to get his hands on the discarded revolver, and shot B dead with it--and recovered from his own injuries. [5]
Struggling to keep back her tears, and in a low voice, Mona rejoined: "I meant to have told him what I'm going to tell you now. [11]

Sentences ending with struggling

In the eddying water, however, about the reversing screw, were two heads, and farther off was a man struggling. [11]
He led her half a mile from the house, and proceeded to lash her to a tree by the side of the public road; and succeeded, she screaming and struggling. [5]

Short sentences using struggling

What was she struggling against? [9]
They were struggling for it. [9]

More example sentences with the word struggling in them

Seeing that it would be a mistake to arrest Marchand at that moment, he raised the struggling figure of the wrecker above his head and, with Herculean effort, threw him up over the heads of the Frenchmen in front of him. [11]
It was tedious work struggling up to a position of influence with bloodless hands; but when a man came with the blood of half a dozen men on his soul, his worth was recognized at once and his acquaintance sought. [5]
Under her loving words of consolation he soon regained his composure, and, still struggling against the rising tears, he cried: "Thank Heaven, there can be no more foolish talk of flight! [10]
Nature is struggling with something, and I am afraid she is under in the wrestling-match. [6]
She went in with rapid steps, pausing at the door for an instant as if struggling with herself, and then ran to her mother. [2]
They were struggling with him for personal safety now. [11]
It was a wild masquerade of all imaginable costumes--every struggling throng in every street was a dissolving view of stunning contrasts. [5]
Is he one who has led a wild and struggling and isolated life,--seeing few but plain and outspoken Northerns, unskilled in the euphuisms which assist the polite world to skim over the mention of vice? [14]
The assemblage rose, whiffed ceremony to the winds, and rushed for the door like a mob; overturning chairs, smashing crockery, tugging, struggling, shouldering, crowding--anything to get out before I should change my mind and puff the castle into the measureless dim vacancies of space. [5]
In the silence which followed Foyle's words his brain was struggling to see a way out. [11]
The pleading glance which Els had cast at her must have pierced her soft heart, for her bosom suddenly heaved violently and, struggling to repress her sobs, she gasped, "I know you mean kindly, but I am not made of stone or iron either. [10]
Fascination and antagonism were struggling within her. [9]
To him she was the one being in the world worth struggling for; the bird to be caught on the wing, or coaxed into the nest, or snared into the net; and two of the three things he had tried without avail. [11]
A crescent moon was struggling through floes of fleecy clouds, the stars were shining, and so the road was not entirely dark. [11]
But while she was struggling not to weep aloud, emotion and anxiety for the old man who, through her fault, would be exposed to so much danger, extorted the cry: "Take care of him, Herr Pyramus! [10]
Her natural heart was struggling against her old bitterness towards Galt Roscoe and her partial hate of Ruth Devlin. [11]
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]
As yet he was like a returned traveller who does not quickly recognise old familiar things, and who is struggling with vague suggestions and forgotten events. [11]
No pulpit eloquence was ever so moving and so beautiful as this outcast's picture of the first Mormon pilgrimage across the plains, struggling sorrowfully onward to the land of its banishment and marking its desolate way with graves and watering it with tears. [5]
I am indeed very grateful to the brave men who have been struggling with the enemy in the field, to their noble commanders who have directed them, and especially to our Maker. [7]
The gas was turned low, but under the chandelier was the figure of a young man struggling with an overcoat. [9]
He left a tumultuous Cynthia, amazement and repentance struggling with anger, which forbade her calling him back: pride in her answering to pride in him, and she rejoicing fiercely that he had pride. [9]
On the dull, torpid faces, light seemed struggling to live for a moment, as David talked. [11]
Struggling, then yielding to the impulse, Virginia let herself be led on into the years. [9]
The Thracian listened to the description of the new art struggling to present truth, as if these things were welcome surprises, grand revelations, for which she had waited with eager longing. [10]
He is trying to take up the burden of this life while struggling under the terror of another. [4]
Then Macnamara turned, to see Mahmoud and the third dervish on the ground, struggling in each other's arms. [11]
He was struggling to rear a durable monument of fame; and he well knew that truth and thoroughly sound reasoning were the only sure foundations. [7]
It does seem to me that when a man sees a fellow-being struggling in the water and jumps in at the risk of his life to save him-- O.M. [5]
I am struggling to maintain the Government, not to overthrow it. [7]
But when, struggling to escape from the ruffian's clutch, she again turned her face towards the hall, what a transformation had occurred! [10]
It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? [5]
For a long time nothing was heard beneath the sycamore save Miriam's low moans and the impatient footsteps of the warrior who, while struggling for composure, did not venture to disturb her. [10]
Such masses, such throngs, such multitudes of hurrying, bustling, struggling humanity! [5]
It was as though something in their meagre lives, which belonged to undeveloped feelings, was fighting for existence--a light struggling to break through murky veils of inexperience. [11]
I've been all this time struggling and despairing over these few little Meisterschaft primers: but as sure as you live, I'll have the whole fifteen by heart before this time day after to-morrow. [5]
I've heard enough this morning to be convinced that they're struggling for something fundamental, that has to do with human progress,--the issue behind the war. [9]
This constraint annoyed the young man; while struggling against it his spirit of wantonness awoke, and he began to irritate Henrica into making unprecedented assertions, which he opposed with equally unwarrantable ones of his own. [10]
Even this season the Saturday Review is struggling with Ibsen, while Boston, having had that disease, has probably gone on to some other fad. [4]
They were at the same time the first which were to show what he believed to be the true mission of art--a hideous hawker, hide in hand, praising his wares with open mouth, and the struggling Maenads. [10]
Why, Washington, in the Oriental countries people swarm like the sands of the desert; every square mile of ground upholds its thousands upon thousands of struggling human creatures--and every separate and individual devil of them's got the ophthalmia! [5]
When they returned the moon was coming up, rising and struggling and making its way slowly through ragged masses of colored clouds. [4]
In five minutes the dead solitude and silence of the place were no more, and a begging, screeching, shouting mob were struggling about the horses' feet and blocking the way. [5]
It was like the breaking up of life; he was struggling in the consciousness of coming death: when Ruth stood by his side, clothed in white, with a face like that of an angel, radiant, smiling, pointing to the sky, and saying, "Come. [5]
His life was that of self-absorption and hardship, mortification of the body, denial of the solicitation of the senses, struggling of the spirit for more holiness of purpose--a life of supplication for the perishing souls about him. [4]
It was a surging, struggling, shoulder-to-shoulder scramble. [5]
She was still struggling, groping, wondering, striving to accustom herself to the higher light of another world. [9]
Beware of the struggling young author, my friends. [5]
His arm was struggling with the tide once more, and this time more successfully. [10]
Antony is now struggling with Octavianus for the sovereignty of the world. [10]
A poor widow struggling to maintain her orphans in decency and comfort, is a delicious picture of human goodness.--Put down your hat, Kit. [12]
Count Frohlinger rose, struggling for breath; his hand sought his hunting-knife, but in the fall it had slipped from its sheath and was lying in the snow. [10]
There is great strife and struggling for the office of the United States Senator here at this time. [7]
His hoofs were spoilt for city pavements, and scheming, struggling and running about the streets were too much for his country brains and wore him out, as trotting under a saddle would weary a plough-horse. [10]
And when my soul is struggling from the maze Of many conflicts, must our converse end? [11]
I am more sorry than I can express that this letter of Mr. Clemens' should have reached you when you were struggling under such terrible pressure. [5]
There was wild shrieking and struggling while the vapour enveloped the great throng, and so some who were not scalded got trampled upon and hurt. [5]
He saw the senior officer lying on the earth wall with his back turned as if he were examining something down below and that one of the soldiers he had noticed before was struggling forward shouting "Brothers! [2]
They long to return to the untilled earth, where the life of struggling mortals began. [10]
He blinked, went red, got up and sat down again, struggling with himself to do what was for him the most difficult thing in life--to say an unpleasant thing to a man's face, to say what the other, whoever he might be, did not expect. [2]
Her eyes were red with weeping, and in her arms she carried a round, yellowish-white creature that, struggling and stretching it's little legs in the air, squealed in a clear, shrill voice, even more loudly and piteously than a hungry babe. [10]
If it should reach the metropolis, what a relief it might bring to thousands who are, under a high sense of duty, struggling to advance the intellectual life. [4]
It is all quite the same to me," answered a voice struggling with tears. [2]
I was not quite myself yet; I was struggling, as it were, with the effects of a fantastic dream. [11]
Norway Rat was perched upon the summit engaged in thrusting his tail into the cylindrical projection, drawing it out dripping, permitting the struggling multitude of laborers to suck the end of it, then straightway reinserting it and delivering the fluid to the mob as before. [5]
There was a pause; his intellect was struggling to comprehend; presently it did manage to catch the idea in time to save embarrassment all around, and he said gratefully-- "Dear Gwendolen! [5]
There is one paper published here in the English language--The Levant Herald--and there are generally a number of Greek and a few French papers rising and falling, struggling up and falling again. [5]
But she wrote on, struggling against her own feelings of illness; "continually recurring feelings of slight cold; slight soreness in the throat and chest, of which, do what I will," she writes, "I cannot get rid. [14]
I am tired of the miserable starving and struggling, my dear Wolf. [10]
In a fever of expectancy I sprang to the door, locked it, placed my back against it, and bent a watchful gaze upon my struggling master. [5]
How many billions of blind, struggling creatures clung to them? [9]
We are conscious of all this, so much breadth and atmosphere has the artist given his little history of half a dozen people in this struggling world. [4]
Besides, are you not helping a struggling fellow-craftsman, and is it not your duty to do that? [5]
However, it is not for the struggling lawyer to scorn any honourable brief, especially from a gentleman of stocks and bonds and varied interests like Mr. Crewe, with whom contentions of magnitude are inevitably associated. [9]
Still, he could not bear to repulse this struggling young author, who clung to him with such pretty simplicity and trustfulness. [5]
The tide of my exhilaration had ebbed, and I found myself struggling against a revulsion caused, apparently, by the contemplation of Colonel Varney and his associates; the instruments, in brief, by which our triumph over our opponents was to be effected. [9]
He paused a moment at the door, and seemed struggling to command his feelings sufficiently to enable him to speak, and then, nodding his head toward his manuscript, ejaculated in a broken voice, "Friend of mine--oh! [5]
At this moment mingled feelings were struggling in his soul. [10]
Then, struggling to maintain her composure, she joyously uttered his name, and as he rushed into the room, cried "Ulrich! [10]
I was there, looking down on the packed and struggling crowd when Gen. Grant came forward and was saluted by the cheers of the multitude and the waving of ladies' handkerchiefs--for the windows and roofs of all neighboring buildings were massed full of life. [5]
It had been long since we had seen such multitudes of excited and struggling people. [5]
The longer she lived, the more experience and observation she had of life, the greater was her wonder at the short-sightedness of men who seek enjoyment and happiness here on earth: toiling, suffering, struggling, and harming one another, to obtain that impossible, visionary, sinful happiness. [2]
The rector softly left the room, only to be confronted with another harrowing scene in the library, where a frantic woman was struggling in Sally Grover's grasp. [9]
I can see it now, and you valiantly struggling with it till your mighty arms ache. [10]
What we see is not true freedom, but freedom run to riot, men struggling for themselves, spending on themselves the fruits of their inheritance; we see a government intent on one object alone--exploitation of this inheritance in order to achieve what it calls prosperity. [9]
It was an inward convulsion, which gave his face the look of unrelieved tragedy and suffering--Laocoon struggling with the serpents of sorrow and hatred which were strangling him. [11]
However, we plunged into the wood, they skurrying in the lead, and the trouble was quickly revealed: they had hanged a little fellow with a bark rope, and he was kicking and struggling, in the process of choking to death. [5]
The desire to impress his works with the stamp of his own overflowing power had carried him far beyond moderation in modelling his struggling Maenads. [10]
When her deadened imagination again began to stir, she fancied that she was struggling with a huge crab, which was cutting her foot with shears. [10]
All this time I was struggling in my bonds; and at last, about dawn, I got myself free, and rose up and stretched my stiff limbs. [5]
Cawley had thrown his arms about the struggling, drunken assailant--Jock's poaching friend. [11]
Then she found herself listening, struggling no longer, for he held her powerless. [9]
There she stood, her open heart slowly closing and struggling against her longing to cry out to him, and say that she would as gladly bear his cares with him and share every danger, as happiness and honor. [10]
The fierceness of her inflamed his passion, yet he recognized dimly behind this fierceness an instinct of self-protection--and he thought of her in this moment as a struggling bird that fluttered out of his hands when they were ready to close over her. [9]
Mrs. Revel buried her face in her hands, and Ruth gave a little groan, but she held the rudder firmly, as we swiftly approached the forms struggling in the water. [11]
How the noon-tide heat must burden those who were fighting and struggling below; how the bleeding wounds of those who had fallen in the dust must burn! [10]
Natasha knows that he is struggling with terrible pain. [2]
The next moment he and his allies were struggling and fighting with the half-dozen uniformed servants who were there to protect the new gates. [5]
Perhaps we should have been fighting still had not some one pulled us apart, and when my vision cleared I saw Nick, struggling and kicking, held tightly in the hands of the clergyman. [9]
The struggling Journal had swallowed up those advance-payments, but its "claim" was a severe one and they had failed to cure it. [5]

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