Day after day I prowled through the streets, and each succeeding midnight found me on the spot where I had met Norah on the evening of my wrestling encounter.
Wrestling appealed to me, and I threw the stoutest of my opponents in less than three minutes.
The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
A border man, running away from civilization, who cannot bark and burrow like a coyote, nor climb a tree like a gorilla, is wrestlingwith his fate at a terrible disadvantage.
Before the Alexandrian could hinder him, the loose stone over which the enemies were wrestling in breathless combat gave way, and both were hurled into the abyss with the falling rock.
But the rest of us had a fine uproarious time of it, and I tried my hand with young Carljohan at one or two little wrestling tricks.
If in the first wrestling the attack had been impetuous, it was now painfully deliberate.
He is so beset with admirers, his trainers are angry already; besides, he is still at the wrestling ground.
He was on the familiar way from the cool wrestling ground of the Academy and walking toward the city through the suburb of Ceramicus.
Cimon laughed heartily; “have we not left him at the wrestling ground?
Blackmore has given an excellent description of a Devonshire wrestling match in his early novel of Clara Vaughan.
Brushfield /The Wrestling Champion of England, Abraham Cann/ 518 From a drawing /Rev.
Carew gives us an account of the way in which wrestling was conducted in the West of England in the days of Charles I.
The wrestling dress peculiar to the West Country consisted of breeches or trousers and a wrestling jacket, the only part of the dress by which a hold, or as it was technically called a hitch, could be got by the rules of the play.
Whenever there was a wrestling match, distance was nothing to him, or a horse fair, or a stag-hunt.
At the time of the European war, it sometimes happened that a wrestling match was interrupted in an unpleasant manner to some of the parties by the appearance on the scene of the press-gang.
If we may judge by As You Like It, wrestling in the Elizabethan period was a murderous sport.
Wrestling matches usually began at Whitsuntide, but were most in practice at the period between the hay and corn harvests, when the cereals were assuming a golden hue, and the orchards were bending under their burden of fruit.
If wrestling was declining in Carew’s time, it certainly revived in vigour in the reign of Charles II, and continued till the beginning of the nineteenth century, when again it declined, and is now in Devon a thing of the past.
Mark, it was not Jacob wrestling with a man; but a man wrestling with Jacob; this scene is very commonly referred to as an instance of Jacob's power in prayer.
My wrestling with a man, and a man wrestling with me, present two totally different ideas to the mind.
God was wrestling with Jacob to bring him to this point.
In my career, including my medicine show days, I've had lots of easy marks, but nothing to compare to the crowd at Eros' first wrestling match.
In five seconds, we had going one of the finest wrestling matches in the history of good, clean sportsmanship.
The amphitheater has been converted into a permanent wrestling arena.
When nobody is looking, we sneak into the royal palace courtyard and put on a wrestling show for the girls.
Twice then she attempted to speak, twice her voice refused to perform its duty, and she remained silent, wrestling with her grief, and at last overcoming it.
Here I sit weeping pitiful tears about the malice of my enemies, and all this while my child is wrestling in the pains of death!
How he had come to hate this job of wrestling with figures.
He was wrestling with a book entitled "Our New Mother Earth" and a journal called "The Modern Farm.
I don't think there's much doubt that out of all the students now in college there is some one who could beat me at any one thing I might undertake to do, from wrestling to trapeze work.
In wrestling it was necessary to draw lots to decide which colleges should compete first.
Mellor looked a little puzzled, but answered: "After I had admitted who I was, the fellow who spoke to me asked how I felt about the wrestling match.
Every day the wrestlers got together in the gymnasium and varied their work at the machines by wrestlingwith each other.
They understood each other; it was better that Mellor should be allowed to appear in the wrestling match that night, even though he was almost surely doomed to defeat.
The other students supposed that this was due to his anxiety about the wrestling match, and no questions were asked, although there were a few good-natured jokes about his nervousness.
Each wrestling bout consisted of three rounds, with a short rest between each two.
As three rounds at wrestling is likely to tire any but the very strongest man, the next bout was set down a full half hour later on the programme in order to give the winner time to rest.
Both the towers were hit, and they shook as if an earthquake were wrestling with them.
While the acrobat hung from the cornice striving to get hold of the pillar with his feet and legs, Sergius was wrestling with the question, what could impel a fellow being to tempt Providence so rashly?
The drama is quite an allegory--Uncle Sam wrestling with his guardian angel Consent-of-the-governed.
It was strength, wrestling with swiftness, German awkwardness, against Hunnic cunning.
Afterwards when Koek Chan is wrestling long with a hero and cannot kill him, a woman drops into his mouth the ring which contains half his strength.
But of late I had felt, as it were, in one perpetual round of bitter wrestling with the evil one.
Nothing could more clearly show the self-command which a good man wins by wrestling long with adversity.
In my dull blindness I did not see that I was assisting at the beginning of a great mystery, a spectacle on which the gaze of angels was riveted--the wrestling of a soul with God: the soul resisting; the Creator pleading and pursuing.
The land which Improvisatore's throng With one light bound would "freedom" improvise, Freedom by England dragged from raging seas Through centuries of wrestling right and wrong.
The conqueror in a wrestling match took the wife or wives of the defeated man.
Wrestling competitions were almost universal, especially as a means of winning a wife.
In all my years of wrestling I have never been mishandled so cruelly.
The Wrestling As he rode, however, at the head of his troop he passed through a village where there was a wrestling contest, which he stayed to watch.
A Wrestling Match Shortly after this quarrel between the brothers a wrestling competition was announced, the winner of which would become the owner of a fine ram and a ring of gold, and Gamelyn determined to try his powers.
Defeats the Champion The wrestling had lasted till late in the evening, and the moon was shining on the scene when Gamelyn and the champion began their struggle.
Sometimes he was studiously cold, or evidently wrestling with the powerful passion that mastered his reason.
Madeline soothingly, and wrestling with her tears, "is not your gain great?
But he who, by the cruelty of fortune and mortal infirmity, lived many lives in the span of one short life, ever wrestling with Nature to subdue her, could never subdue himself by himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrestling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: checkers; chess; game; sport
