close grips

Example Sentences

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And thirdly, if the pursuit came to close grips, he was still in a strategic position.

From Where the Blue Begins by Morley, Christopher

Within another hour the opposing forces were at close grips again, and the Federals, flushed with success and steadied by the regulars, seemed certain to succeed.

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry

The Paleyan God had at least the merit of coming to close grips with his work.

From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Cohen, Chapman

"We're at close grips at last," said Holmes as we walked together across the moor.

From The Hound of the Baskervilles by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

"When shall we come to close grips with them?"

From All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War by Hocking, Joseph