close grips
Example Sentences
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However, they were not destined to come to close grips with the enemy.
From The Boy Ranchers on the Trail by Baker, Willard F.
He was headed for Ireland and close grips with the hated redcoats as fast as train and steamer could bear him.
From Kindred of the Dust by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
It is so easily possible for a man to be at close grips with the world and yet to be ever more and more out of touch with its realities.
From The Threshold Grace by Ainsworth, Percy C.
His, unless a trained forest warrior himself, was a headlong bravery, and now this gallant little force asked for nothing but to come to close grips with the enemy.
From The Scouts of the Valley by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
Rather there came a sense of gladness that a fighter feels when the battle has at last come to close grips.
From The Harbor of Doubt by Gage, George W.
