They forced the Shirakawa palace, and after a desperate struggle,* the defenders took to flight.
A desperate struggle ensued, and the Ko generals had to retreat to Harima, where they joined with Takauji, the latter having abandoned his expedition to Kyushu.
He commanded a great army, and there resulted a desperate struggle known in history as the Meitoku War, after the name of the year-period when it occurred.
The height was gained after a desperate struggle; the key of the battlefield was held by the French; the Austrians, impetuously assailed at every point, and driven from every point of vantage, began a retreat.
And once more a desperate struggle ensued, which was repeated till the suffocating wreaths were too much even for the much-diminished attacking party, who now drew back to make way for a strong force of their companions.
The one side was determined to cross, the other to prevent their crossing; and their enthusiastic rivalry gave promise of a desperate struggle.
A desperate struggle ensued; for the fight took place in a narrow space surrounded by walls; but at last the Romans were forced to turn and fly.
These latter let go the towing-ropes, grappled with the enemy, and kept up a desperate struggle.
He panted out these words in a series of hoarse cries; and all he while, as far as his hands would allow, he went through the movements of one having a desperate struggle with a great dog--fending off its efforts to get at his throat.
For two or three minutes a desperate struggle went on between Ralph and his six men and those who attempted to break through them.
At half-past seven in the evening of September 23, he laid his own vessel, the Bon Homme Richard, alongside the Serapis, and a desperate struggle ensued.
Meantime their comrades on the Canadian shore, thus basely abandoned, after a desperate struggle, were compelled to surrender.
They were to fight a brave people--Americans--who were to be conquered only by a desperate struggle.
During this time England and France were engaged in a desperate struggle.
As he spoke he secured the rope to the Cuban's waist, and then, as he fully realised that they were going to send him overboard, he made a desperate struggle to free himself, but all in vain.
It was such a rush, such a breathless, desperate struggle, I can scarcely recall the details.
In the other direction all was apparently water, a turbulent waste, and one glance deciding my action, I quickly struck out, partially breasting the downward sweep of the current, in a desperate struggle to attain land.
He caught me from behind, the very weight of his heavy body throwing me from balance, although I caught one of his arms, as he attempted to strike, and locked with him in desperate struggle.
For the last fifteen years he and his sister, more recently reenforced by her husband, had been engaged in a desperate struggleto pull up out of the muck.
Life as she had seen it was a ceaseless, desperate struggle, a constant clash of personalities, an unrelenting war of social classes.
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