And Borghild's courage, too, rose and fell with the flickering motion of a flame whichwrestles with the wind.
Then comes the storm from the Western seas, wrestles with the sturdy trunk, and breaks it; and the shattered branches fly to all the four corners of the heavens.
Weeks, attribute all personal qualities to the aid of spirits; so that if one man wrestles better than another, it is because the spirit Embanda is in him.
He that wrestleswith us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.
He thatwrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill.
In dim forecastings, wrestles within them the 'Divine Idea of the World,' yet will nowhere visibly reveal itself.
If one wrestles with evil, clings to the truth, renounces all for righteousness' sake, it is well for him.
How the human mind wrestles with the powers of nature and conquers them!
He was not as one who, feeling himself secure from danger, calls out to him who wrestles with the agony of death: "Come to me: it is pleasant to be here.
Alone, the mind wrestles with the great problem of calamity, and seeks the solution from the Infinite Providence of Heaven, and thus is led directly to God.
For thy lot is other than a man's: His is a path of thorns: he beats them down: He faces death: he wrestleswith despair.
In those words there rings from other years The echo of a long low cry, Where a proud spiritwrestles with its tears In loneliest agony.
From birth to death his soul wrestles with the universe; and the drama of which he is the protagonist lifts the sublime monotony of its scenery from the zenith to the nadir.
They also seek to purge away all evil; they slay dragons, gorgons, devouring monsters, cleanse the foul places of earth, and one of them so wrestles with death as to win a victim from his grasp.
The spirit that now in dread of death wrestleswith nature must have another refuge, a loftier destiny than the life of this world!
Once more Alcestis wrestles with the tomb, Arise, arise from thy enthralling doom!
Nearchus, who hast clasped in Heaven that dear, that pierced hand, Plead that thy friend, who wrestles here, may safely by thee stand!
Nature, like the God of nature, wrestles with us as a friend, not an enemy, wanting us to gain the victory, and wrestles with us that we may understand and enjoy her best blessings.
More or less, it wrestles with him for its proper place.
In a time of revolution, when power wrestles with power, which power is the Christian to regard as "ordained of God"?
The Eternal knows, with infinite kindness and sympathy, the pain unspeakable which can beset the creature when it wrestles with His Eternity, and tries to clasp it with both hands, and to say that "that is all!
They are impervious to weapons, but Bhima wrestles with them and breaks their backs or tears them asunder, after lively combats with trees and boulders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrestles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
