There is no hold for an Alpine stock, no grappling point for hands or feet.
A pair of grappling dogs for hoisting logs and timber.
A match for yards in fight, in grappling for the bear.
Moreover, for grappling and raising the cable to the bows, the sea must be tolerably smooth; and in that part where the work lay a succession of fine days is rare, even in the month of August.
The feasibility of grappling in mid-Atlantic had been demonstrated, and they had gone far toward proving the possibility of recovering the cable from similar depths.
For the purpose of grappling the 1865 cable, twenty miles of rope were manufactured, which was constituted by forty-nine iron wires, separately covered with manila hemp.
During the operation of buoying the grappling rope, a mistake occurred which resulted in the rope slipping overboard and going to the bottom.
At that time means were not devised for grappling and lifting a cable from such depths.
The next instant he was grappling with a whirlwind of knives and nails, anything.
She was shaken by the scene, and had hardly composed herself again to a weary grappling with business when the front door bell rang once more, and the butler appeared.
The Metropolitan Borough Councils were grapplingwith their numerous duties.
Along with specialisation of the hands went a reduction in the length and massiveness of the arms; and this must have been disadvantageous in directly grappling with prey.
Then to close wi' 'em till our gun muzzles are nigh touching and whiles we pound 'em below, 'tis grappling irons and boarders away!
The mass ended and the throngs of worshipers passed out, but Mary sat unheeded and unheeding in her dim corner, her simple mind grappling with the stupendous idea of its Covenant with Heaven.
Now Androv was grappling to keep control of the throttle, while issuing instructions to Petra.
Out of the corner of his eye he saw Kenji Nogami still grappling with the other kobun.
It is an able speech for a new member--especially for one grappling with a question peculiar to a part of the country so far away from his own.
Dick followed reluctantly, but the grip on his ear lobe was emphatic, and in his one short struggle for freedom he felt as if he were grappling with the great poppet-legs at the Silver Stream.
He fought this wish furiously, as if it had been a tangible thing: grappling with it, choking it in his heart, and stirring up in his soul a wilder hatred for his enemy.
With death grapplingat her heart, she surrounded herself with the flower of the youth and beauty of Italy and France, laughing with the gayest and ready with smile and gracious word for king or knave.
And, if the grappling hooks from one of these got hold of us, there would be little hope of escape, or of saving ourselves.
The thought was not cheerful, particularly as the depths in this part of the ocean were not sufficient so that we could, by submerging deeply, guard ourselves against the dangers of grappling hooks, nets and mines.
The shock was terrible; and like a lion and a tiger grappling the two bodies writhed and fought.
The darkness tells how vainly I have striven To free them from the pit where they must dwell In outcast gloom convulsed and jagged and riven By grappling guns.
Grappling with the affairs of state affords unique opportunities for growth, while the honor of having served the state operates as a magnifying glass enlarging the inspirational force of individuals so honored.
He was mystified, and his mind, grappling with the problem of his likeness sitting there before him, could not address itself to the functions of a witness in the case at issue.
For myself, ye are witnesses, I came out openly, boldly, and at once, and gave my opponent the best opportunity he could have of grappling fairly with my arguments.
For an instant Nick, grapplingwith the spirit, saw Colonel Richmond.
He instantly grappled with it, and the figure was not less prompt ingrappling with him.
Suddenly, as the bearers of the hatchets received the order to board and cut the chains, a crowd of grappling irons, thrown by invisible hands, seized hold of the French vessels.
He also threwgrappling irons, and the two lines of ships were firmly bound together.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grappling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
