Roddy's brain had been alive last night and ready to grapple with anything; to-day he felt stupid and confused.
She would, as Christopher would have put it, grapple with her Tiger.
MacCulloch succeeded a man, possibly not so learned as a geologist, but obviously fitted by nature to grapple with her facts and to put them in their proper setting.
I find it difficult to grapple with the exact grounds of this discontent.
With the view of removing the fear of our falling back into the condition of 'the ape and tiger,' so sedulously excited by certain writers, I propose to grapple with this question in its rudest form, and in the most uncompromising way.
When a gas is condensed to a liquid, or a liquid congealed to a solid, the molecules coalesce, andgrapple with each other by forces which are insensible as long as the gaseous state is maintained.
He must grapplewith his devotion to Olva, with his terror of Craven, but, most of all, with his terror of himself.
I shall go mad if something doesn't happen; every day it is worse and I can't grapple with it.
The laws and properties of so ethereal a substance as light, appeared to elude the grasp of the human intellect; and hence, no one evinced the boldness to grappledirectly with them.
Hence he was compelled to reject those weak evasions of the difficulty of reconciling them, and to grapple directly with the difficulty itself.
Primitives, because they are artists, have to grapple with the artistic problem.
No artist can escape the tradition of art except by refusing to grapple with the problem; which is how most do escape it.
But no one can grapple with history without feeling its inexhaustibleness.
Its final boundaries seem only to retreat to a farther distance the more ground we master, as Mr Buckle found, when he betook himself, like another Atlas, to grapple with the history of the whole world.
What a wonderful man you are to grapple with those old metaphysical-divinity books.
You'll see where mountain conies grapple With prayer and creed in their rock chapel Which Ben and Claire once built for them; They call it Söar Bethlehem.
He crunches, swallows, stiffens, seems tograpple With the all-powerful poppy .
Mr Grapple observed that this was unimportant, and then asked if he should insert the names of any other persons.
To secure his safety should the fire-ships grapple the Tourville, he at once began constructing a raft.
The letters he received on the subject of the hours of labour interested him a great deal, and he tried to grapple with their difficulties, but soon found he could make little of them.
He might, for aught he knew, have to grapple with assassins.
It is the ideas that Nature induces us to grapple with; and the reading of words like the hearing of language, is merely the means employed to get at them.
The rebels we always beat when we can grapple with them, but we cannot crush and subdue them.
As in old Rome and Alexandria, so now in London and Calcutta all currents of human thought flow together, and truth is in full grapple with error.
With the help of these he may proceed to grapple for himself with the mass of highly interesting but bewildering details concerning social organization to be found in any of the leading first-hand authorities.
But to take the machine to bits in order to put it together differently is out of the reach of a type of intelligence which, though competent to grapple with details, takes its principles for granted.
They knew they had the numbers; but they also knew that they had adversaries to grapple with to whom might be applied the proud motto of Louis the Fourteenth: "Not an unequal match for numbers.
With this new question, in all its forms, the men of the new generation have had to grapple for the whole period of the "Thirty Years.
She felt very desolate and lonely, but she remembered that she must still grapple with a practical difficulty.
In this case, however, it is the concrete and practical we have to grapple with, my friend.
Men looked out upon its immense surface, now calm and bright, now lashed by storms, and always mysteriously attractive; but they could not grapple with it.
They had to drive with great circumspection and patience to grapple with the kind of ground we had before us; a slight mistake might be enough to send both sledge and dogs with lightning rapidity into the next world.
As regarded the serious question of marriage, implying a home, position, the married dignities, it had rarely disturbed her; and now her imaginative forecast did not grapple it with any vigor or longing.
Let us, then, grapple with it, and test its strength.
You cannot grapple with them in your own strength.
Only a power which can deal with our sense of sin, and soothe that into blessed assurance of pardon, is strong enough to grapple with our true root of misery.
Perhaps it was from some small remains of regard for the old man who now assaulted me, in sailor fashion, with heavy blows of his fist, that I refrained from repaying him in the same coin, but endeavored to grapple with him.
This one thing, perhaps," he said, "that when she is thrown up thus high we may try if we can grapple her so that the surf may not sweep her back.
Added to the heavy strain that Mrs. Gray and Grace were laboring under, they were destined to grapplewith the question: Why had David Nesbit not responded to their plea for assistance?
The world was heaving in a death grapple with the powers of darkness and he was as nothing in the balance.
For them is no vision of conquest or gigantic death-grapple with a modern foe, but rather the careful guarding of a remote and insalubrious colonial empire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grapple" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
